Edsurge

MAY 17, 2017

Now that we’ve assembled international crowds of motivated, smart people online in MOOCs, it’s time to think about harnessing their collective intelligence to tackle these urgent cross-boundary issues. But instead of using a tool like WebEx or GoToWebinar, we use Slack , a mobile messaging platform. Sourcing a Challenge.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

In Canada, for example, about two-thirds of colleges offer online degrees —and many have for years. Phil Hill, a prominent edtech consultant, told me that because Africans are forced to introduce mobile, not as an add-on, but as a priority, “from day one, Africans optimize digital learning for mobile. While here in the U.S.,

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Perry Hewitt

MAY 22, 2015

Google is once again showing tweets in search results , starting with mobile. The MOOC (Massively Open Online Course) hype cycle peaked in 2012, but educators are still trying to crack the right formula for effective, online learning. Then pore through these examples of faux code in TV and movies. Bad weather where you are?

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Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

Some new services and platforms will emerge to cater for different forms of learning, MOOCs will evolve and improve and open badges will be hot. The MOOC backlash. Of course I have to start with MOOCs. The MOOC backlash started in earnest in 2013. MOOC providers will keep on refining them. Introduction.

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 19, 2016

In discussion we touched on cognitive computing, “quick” (live or easily published) video (Kat’s term), video growing on mobile devices. Also on mobile we mentioned reading on phones and the uneven deployment of cell phones in America.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 20, 2013

You could see where we might place formal learning using a VLE, or where students might meet to chat using Facebook, for example. With the increasing popularity of such movements as the Flipped Classroom , and Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs), other more radical formal learning space configurations are taking place.

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Edsurge

MAY 29, 2018

When I joined Ashford, the MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) had just started and it was quite an interesting movement. For example, when they designed a program and ran it, they didn't know whether the results were correct or not until they got the feedback from the instructor. Ashford was one of the leading schools in that area.

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 16, 2014

And yet, with the advent of mobile technology, learning can now take place any where, and at any time. A third position is that traditional learning environments will change to meet the needs of the digital age, and that the flipped classroom is one example of how this will proceed. Unported License.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2016

As more adults than ever before enroll in postsecondary education programs and a variety of players—from bootcamps to online and mobile course providers—offer options tailored to match adults’ work and family circumstance, traditional colleges and universities have struggled to keep pace.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

Designing online learning experiences is essential to training employees, mobilizing customers, serving students, building marketing channels, and sustaining business models. For example, look at the examples of host education that Airbnb puts together. Look at the altMBA program that Seth Godin runs using Slack.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Famous billionaire college dropouts like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and the late Steve Jobs are prominent examples of successes who never completed undergraduate degrees. One example of this is the newest trend of “ digital badges.” Peter Thiel’s initiative, the Thiel Fellowship , underscores this growing perception.

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The Principal of Change

DECEMBER 13, 2018

For example, if you say “relationships matter” and we “need to tell our stories” but the majority of the communication that goes out to the community about the effectiveness of your school is in terms of numbers and rankings, you are telling people what is valued through what you communicate to your community.

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

There are numerous examples of technology reshaping educational practices and creating new opportunities for the sharing of knowledge. Learning should always come first, but what fools we would be if we denied that technology has the potential to make a tangible difference in education!

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 27, 2015

In the background knowledge-building phase of learning, for example. Or in a “flipped classroom” setting where the “lecture” is designed to be consumed at the student’s own pace (using viewing strategies , for example). School-to-school instruction (using Skype in the classroom , for example).

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 5, 2016

I asked if the mobile world offers a partial way to address inequality of access, since we know poorer Americans, plus blacks and hispanics, tend to use mobile devices more often and for more purposes than wealthy and white people. For example, MOOCs are still weak on completion and learning, but evolving.

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Hack Education

APRIL 30, 2020

Teachers, of course, know how to shift this physical setting — move the chairs around, for example. And there are plenty of other examples I could give you too, unfortunately, of how surveillance technologies permeate schools. Teachers might be less adept or even able to do the same when the classroom setting is digital.).

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EdTechSandyK

OCTOBER 4, 2012

For example, students are engaged in social activities an passion based research (if they love photography, they look for photography info). Example: WeVideo for Google Drive.) Blue School is an example. Are you designing for mobile? David Jakes learning spaces mission mobile technology tcea TECSIG transliteracy vision'

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Learning with 'e's

MAY 2, 2019

I wrote about other examples of the power of educational video in a previous post. Alternative modes Today, education has expanded beyond traditional learning spaces into distance education , blended learning, flipped classrooms , mobile learning, and online delivery through technologies such as MOOCs ( Massive Open Online Courses ).

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Without imposed schedules, proximity to peers, or physical classrooms, even the best-intentioned students never make it through a MOOC or fail to reengage with the educational app they downloaded. For example, can learners automatically be placed in a team on an online course platform? “Self-paced.”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 2, 2016

The tool, which recently surpassed more than one million flashcards, uses artificial intelligence to generate multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank and other quiz-based flashcards from user-uploaded PDFs, URLs, or even photos of handwritten notes or textbooks taken using the PrepFlash mobile app. Based in Honolulu, Hawaii, Comprend.io

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 9, 2013

Is your library mobile friendly? The Library 2.013 Worldwide Virtual Conference presentations will cover eight subject strands, addressing a wide variety of timely topics, such as MOOCs, e-books, maker spaces, mobile services, embedded librarians, green libraries, and more! How does your library manage digital collections?

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2021

For example, someone who takes a short, non-credit course to supplement her bachelor’s degree will probably have a different employment outcome than someone without any other higher education. Data analysis from New America shows that half of adults with a short-term certificate who are employed earn $30,000 or less per year.

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The Principal of Change

APRIL 30, 2017

For example, is using a “scantron” to mark multiple choice exams innovative? Someone had to have a vision of what a “phone” could be, but when you look at the innovation of mobile technology, this has led to other innovations. But innovation is a way of thinking, not simply the way we use technology.

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Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

Some new services and platforms will emerge to cater for different forms of learning, MOOCs will evolve and improve and open badges will be hot. The MOOC backlash. Of course I have to start with MOOCs. The MOOC backlash started in earnest in 2013. MOOC providers will keep on refining them. Introduction.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 6, 2020

Nowadays, mobile technologies are shaping up to be just as ground-breaking. For example, Microsoft offers certification programs to professionals who wish to gain mastery of one or more of their varied software products. MOOCs are not an ideal way for most students to learn.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 24, 2016

I also asked each person to specify their role concerning technology, and there were a lot of different roles: someone running a distance learning program, another in charge of a problem-based learning initiative, a prof looking for good examples of technology in liberal education, a provost to whom several tech departments reported, and more.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 1, 2021

MOOCs and open education in Southeast Asia. Nepali high school students in MOOCs. Inspiring examples to overcome education inequality in Turkey. Fostering local-to-global courses through MOOCs. The Mobiles for Education Alliance & lessons learned. Reflecting on our past few guests. More lessons from China.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

So self-guided inquiry-based and mobile learning. If we’re re-envisioning libraries for a modern society, for example, should we start with the library as it exists and iterate it forward, adding computers and eBook checkout and so on and maybe put a 3D printer at the entrance when you first walk in to give the glow of technology?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Among the major trends Meeker identified for 2017: mobile advertising, gaming, and healthcare. There are, after all, only so many times you can put “mobile” on your list of “what’s on the horizon” before folks begin to suspect your insights might not be that… insightful. Manufacturing Trends.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

A useful example of flow from Diane Ackerman’s Deep Play: “In Bone Games , climber Rob Schultheis recalls how he felt descending a mountain after a harrowing near-death fall: “The person I became on Neva was the best possible version of myself, the person I should have been throughout my life. Mobile Learning.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 8, 2015

30 Examples Of Disruptions In The Classroom. This post is actually intended to supplement the “Cycle of Learning Innovation” model that will be publishing tomorrow (7.7.2015), which means this is less about analysis and context and more about the examples. 30 Examples Of Disruptions In The Classroom . by Terry Heick.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity. Where would you plot the Segway, for example? (In Virtual worlds in 2007, for example. The quotation is from 2012. Maybe it will.).

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ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 1, 2019

In order to reduce the amount of new content a teacher needs to make, YouTube videos, MOOC s, multiple choice questions and web-based resources can be combined. For example, simply using a keyboard to type up a document to enhance its presentation may not always be the most effective use of technology. Let’s take an example.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JULY 28, 2017

Read a step by step approach from an instructor with lots of examples here. I actually did this for one of my Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). Check out their article, How to Create an Infographic Syllabus. Find several syllabus infographics for various subjects here. Gamify your syllabus! Transform activities into missions.

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

The advent of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), the flipped classroom, games based learning, social media and mobile learning - on the face of it - seems to herald a new dawn for education. For example, is online learning, especially free and open offerings from MOOCs , a threat to contemporary education?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Magda Galloway Global Education Discourses in International Student Mobility - Uttam Gaulee, Krishna Bista Global Learning Collaboration in a Less Tech World - Dr. Reynaldo L. Jack Haskell How to Globally Mobilize High School Students to Actualize the United Nations SDGs. Ping Gao, Ph.D., David Stoloff, Ph.D. .

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

At the height of the buzz around MOOCs and flipped classrooms three years ago, Bridget Ford worried that administrators might try to replace her introductory history course with a batch of videos. She agreed that something should change: Drop-outs and failures were high in the 200-person class—at about 13 percent.

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