The Web20Classroom

MAY 12, 2014

The traditional forms of sit-and-get PD are giving way to MOOCs, webinars, Edcamps and flipped learning. Then face-to-face time is spent going deeper with that understanding, creating something or looking at how the learning can be applied. I’ve been a part of a lot of successful PD and been a part of a lot of not so good PD.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2023

He has ChatGPT on his phone and his iPad, and our 45-minute conversation is peppered with references to Coursera’s newest personal learning assistant, “Coach.” But learning online remains a hard nut to crack. Today’s online courses are evolved cousins of the early MOOC, or massive open online course.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Here are six examples of higher-order thinking skills my students developed while creating and playing games: 1. Language Learning and Minecraft. Learning English in Minecraft: a case study on language competences and classroom practices. Minecraft MOOC EVO Minecraft MOOC YouTube. IrvSpanish. Vance Stevens.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 20, 2013

There are the formal, classroom based collaborative spaces and there are the informal, non classroom spaces where we learn most of what we know in interaction with others. Then there are the virtual, online spaces where many of us are increasingly spending our time collaborating, conversing and sharing with our personal learning networks.

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Linways Technologies

JANUARY 6, 2023

It is recommended by AICET in its assessment guidelines that “at institution/ University level, upper limit need to arrive for lower order skills (for example, no more than 40% weightage for knowledge-oriented questions)”. Internship experiences, adding MOOCs, and Co-Curricular experiences are some other methods to assess students.

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ProfHacker

DECEMBER 7, 2015

We are thinking of artifacts such as the early connectivist MOOCs (cMOOCs) by Siemens and Downes, and more recent ones like #rhizo14/15, #ccourses, #clmooc and such. We also do not want to ignore the early history of networked learning from the early days of eLearning, pre-social media and MOOCs.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Despite all the promises of education technology in transforming how students learn, change has been, at best, incremental. Bold claims have been made in the past decade about personalized learning, automated assessments and massive open online courses (MOOCs).

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Hack Education

MAY 6, 2020

" It happens here in California, for example. It had started offering some educational programming on the radio as early as the 1924-25 academic year — Little Red School House of the Air , broadcast twice a day with host Dr. Ben Darrow on station WLS, for example. So no, Khan Academy did not invent "personalized learning."

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The Principal of Change

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

So what does this all mean for education and learning? For example, from our students, do we look for quality and high-level learning as an indicator of success or that a student is doing what they are doing at the time we have told them to do it? September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon!

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The Principal of Change

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Example… I have watched so many teachers sit through dull, bullet-point slide presentations, wanting to be anywhere else but in that room. June 28, 2013 The Prophets In Your Land September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon! Educators (and people) are creatures of habit. No other reason.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Making Smart Decisions in a Crowded Edtech Market : EdSurge’s very own Leonard Medlock (Director, Concierge) will pry open some examples of districts working with Concierge and discuss strategies around how to articulate challenges, find and choose technology and successfully pilot selected tools. EdSurge 4:00 p.m. EdSurge 9:30 a.m.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Usman Khaliq was an engineering student in northeastern Pakistan when he took his first MOOC. complete multiple MOOCs. complete multiple MOOCs. Usman accepted and has been living in west Africa for the last year working as the Program Lead for Code for Sierra Leone , helping young people across the country learn to code.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2017

Since the New York Times named 2012 the year of massive open online courses (MOOCs), millions have flocked to platforms offering them such as edX and Coursera. The six-week long MOOC will touch on topics including open educational resources (OER), open pedagogy and practice, open knowledge and open research. Ekowo: Why this MOOC?

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

For example, in 2015 I wrote that “My ultimate goal is this: I want to (1) radically improve the quality of education as judged by learners, and (2) radically improve access to education. What do you think the whole MOOC thing George Siemens and I and others was about? We are focused on the advantages of OER-enabled pedagogy.

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Educator Innovator

DECEMBER 13, 2016

New media educator Howard Rheingold interviews educator Kevin Hodgson about connected learning and how educators enact its principles with technology. If you are organizing a course, MOOC, or co-learning community, daily connects are one of the most powerful and yet simple tools at your disposal.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

There may be no better example of this in 2017 than “personalized learning.” “Personalized learning” has powerful advocates, least of which US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos who talks about it as part of her broader initiative to “rethink school.” Manufacturing Trends.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

During the conference opening sessions we brainstormed as set of grassroots global education projects that we could bring to our personal learning networks to try to get started. We voted on five project to to focus on right away with a set of basic questions for each: " What do you want to do?

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

For example, this story from the School Library Journal : “ Charter Schools , Segregation , and School Library Access.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). “ Does tech designed to personalize learning actually benefit students? “Many are never the same.”

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Some problems are already being solved in creative ways by educators setting an example of the way forward, while others are more difficult and haven’t yet been solved. As with any changing industry, there are many problems standing in the way of effective technology implementation.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) ” MOOCs looked – for a short while, at least – like they were going to pivot to become LMSes. Instead, they’ve re-branded as job training sites.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

” Tutoring is the cornerstone of technological fantasies about “personalized learning.” How quickly we forget… The industry’s fixation on “the future of learning” certainly seems to prevent many people from taking a good look at the past. Vive la MOOC révolution.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

In short, differentiation is the process of personalizing universal learning goals for groups of students. As such, it is closely related to (but different than) personalized learning and individualized learning. Individualized Learning. Informal Learning. Mobile Learning. .” (22).

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

I’ve learned Python over the last three years along with some of its related systems like NumPy and SciPy , and I’ve successfully used Python as a tool in my research. For example Foundational Skill LA.1 Second, I’ve been using computers and software more and more in my teaching. But it's limited.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “Aftermath of the MOOC wars: Can commercial vendors support creative higher education ? That led to him announcing a $10 million fund specifically for learning applications. Raise $146.1 million in venture funding; ask people to work for you for free.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2017

” The city uses algorithms, for example, to place students in public schools. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). A call to rebrand MOOCs , from Edsurge. ” “Personalized learning,” I believe Zuck calls this. ” Education in the Courts. .”

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Hack Education

JUNE 1, 2018

The Hechinger Report on personalized learning : “The massive experiment in New Orleans schools that few have noticed.” A fabulous example of our healthy capitalist economy working its magic. ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Roombas, for example.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “ Andrew Ng , Co-Founder of Coursera , Returns to MOOC Teaching With New AI Course.” Larry Cuban on personalized learning : part 1 and part 2. Khan Academy, for example, had $27.9 .” Via Reuters : “Some U.S.

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Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2017

“The Year of the MOOC” – I was summoned to Palo Alto, California for a small gathering to discuss the future of teaching, learning, and technology. Perhaps with this data, the MOOC providers can build a map of professional if not cognitive pathways. Let me begin with a story.

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Hack Education

JULY 20, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news in the credential section below. Via Class Central : “Analysis of 450 MOOC -Based Microcredentials Reveals Many Options But Little Consistency.” ” That’s Westchester Square Academy in the Bronx. Because of course.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). It’s another great example of why people who call for “ Uber for Education ” are probably pretty shady. Subscription boxes for teachers are somehow “ personalized learning.” ” Oh look. ” asks Inside Philanthropy.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

” Here, via Edsurge , is a great example of how, instead of investing in public infrastructure, schools wield ed-tech to outsource and privatize key resources for students and communities. Via The New York Times : “ Texas Students Will Now Learn That Slavery Was ‘Central’ to the Civil War.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

ESSA gives more autonomy and flexibility to states than they had under NCLB through competency-based assessments, which could drive the development of personalized learning technologies. Implied: students are lazy; students are conniving; students are academically unprepared. million children ? Are log-ins encrypted? (

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Hack Education

JULY 13, 2018

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” (This is a good example of how ed-tech advocacy-posing-as-journalism operates – you get funded by an organization and then you get to “break the news” about that organization. ” The virtual charter school in question: ECOT.

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Hack Education

APRIL 3, 2017

And more importantly, to ascertain where some folks – those who issue press releases, for example – want the puck to head. It ignores what happens in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for example: the site of Harvard and MIT. We’re more likely to overlook the role that venture capital plays, for example.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). Certainly “free” works well for cash-strapped schools.

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Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). From the edX blog : “How to be a Better Learner: Determine Your Learning Style.” Elsewhere in MOOC research… From Campus Technology : “Grouping MOOC Students by Communication Mode Doesn’t Help Completion.” edtech https://t.co/DOo11lof2f

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Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). In related MOOC news, there's more on “ nanodegrees ” in the “credentialing” section below. ” The story above is just one recent example of technology entrepreneurs making claims that do not “add up.” ” See also: Theranos.

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