Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

He’s credited with co-teaching the first MOOC in 2008, introduced the theory of “connectivism”—the idea that knowledge is distributed across digital networks—and spearheaded research projects about the role of data and analytics in education. Rise of the robots Siemens has both an academic and an industry perspective on digital learning.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

What’s more, for each of these choices, there are additional decisions about which media to use (video, audio, hands-on), whether to give concrete examples, and more. That kind of feedback would be perfect if you had a robot learner on the other end,” he says. For students, this is a discouraging engagement, Lepper says.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2018

Sometimes an artificial persona (call it AI, virtual assistant, robot like ASIMO, whatever) can, in its failed attempt to be human, be truly tragic. Ask students to bring examples from the real world into the classroom.” RSVP for our next #DLNchat: How Have MOOCs Impacted Approaches to Student Learning?

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Educator Innovator

JUNE 27, 2014

In Pittsburgh, kids might join the growing Maker Movement or pick up some engineering skills while making robots. With a click, anyone can learn about the skills needed to earn a badge, which skills the youth has mastered, and see examples of work. The MOOC is nonsequential, so anyone can join at any time.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2020

One thing I do think is going to happen out of this: We know that, for example, our grandparents who lived through the Great Depression had a completely different attitude about things like food and money than we did, because they didn’t have much food and they didn’t have much money. We need to be thinking about that.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

We started the online class for the first time a few years ago when MOOCs were becoming population. We weren't very satisfied with what we saw in the early MOOCs. It felt to us a lot of the early MOOCs were just about delivering information and delivering instruction. Here's an example of something we're working on.

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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”). Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via Techcrunch : “This tortoise shows kids that robot abuse is bad.”

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 2, 2017

Or one for the Robotics Club, National Honor Society, Made with Code, Girls/Boys Scouts, etc. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). MOOC’s are usually free online courses offered by universities with no limit on enrollment. What about a Student Council Class within Google Classroom? New Teacher Training.

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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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Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2018

Pearson, for example, was founded (albeit as a construction company) in 1844 and acquired along the long history various textbook publishing companies which have also been around since the turn of the twentieth century. .” MOOCs were going to change everything. They have been at this a long, long time. And on and on and on.

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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 29, 2017

There may be no better example of this in 2017 than “personalized learning.” Indeed, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has paid for some of that very press coverage, funding for example “an EdSurge Research series about how personalized learning is implemented in different school communities across the country.”

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

“Nothing has more potential to enable us to reimagine higher education than the massive open online course, or MOOC, platforms that are being developed by the likes of Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and companies like Coursera and Udacity.” ” Robots are coming for our jobs.

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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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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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EdTechTeacher

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

As a researcher, Justin has been carrying this concept into his work with MOOCs. To begin, Justin recommends reading Frank Levy and Richard Murnane’s work, Dancing with Robots. As an example, Justin tells the story of the hot water heater in his parents’ house. This perspective is shaping formal learning as well.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Smith, Director of Programs Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for STEM - Revolutionary or Evolutionary? Candidate VoiceThread for Digital Education - Kelli Stair- teacher/ writer An Example STEAM and Maker-Education Curriculum: From Puppets to Robots - Jackie Gerstein, Ed.D. Torrey Trust, Ph.D.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

See examples of how Shannon and I are doing it (poetry summit, virtual debate, author visits, class vista etc). Education Revolution Google+ Community Robots grading essays. Following recent conversations about the assessment capacity of MOOCs, this is a great topic! Join via Blackboard Collaborate here. Thanks, Ted!

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Just a few weeks after Daphne Koller ’s announcement she was leaving the MOOC startup she co-founded, Coursera unveiled “ Coursera for Business ” this week, marking its pivot from “democratizing higher ed” to “ training corporate employees.”

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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. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Via NPR : “Hi, Robot : Adults, Children And The Uncanny Valley.”

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Hack Education

JANUARY 5, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Via Mindwires Consulting’s Michael Feldstein : “Good Enough vs. Better Enough: The Macmillan Example.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. For-profit colleges bought and sold in the “business of education” section below.

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Hack Education

JUNE 1, 2018

A fabulous example of our healthy capitalist economy working its magic. ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Roombas, for example. Via Inside Higher Ed : “Mostly Positive Effects of a ‘Last-Dollar’ Scholarship.”

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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.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Khan Academy, for example, had $27.9 .” Via Reuters : “Some U.S. ” More via Wired.

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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. “Robots are coming for your job.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

.” Note the significant difference in language in this headline from The Verge , for example – “ Harvard’s Root robot teaches kids how to code ” – and the way in which Seymour would describe the LOGO Turtle – that students would using programming to teach the robot. Only “1.86

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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.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Because of course.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2018

Via The Conversation : “What we can learn from closure of charter school that DeVos praised as ‘shining example’ ” The school in question: the Excel Academy Public Charter School in DC which was closed for poor performance. ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”).

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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. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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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. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Via The Verge : “ Aflac ’s toy robot for kids facing cancer is the smartest toy of all.”

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Hack Education

JANUARY 18, 2017

She seemed to fail to grasp some of the basics of education policy – the difference between “ proficiency ” and “ growth ,” for example, and the federal rules surrounding disability rights and education. Via the IEEE Spectrum : “How the Pioneers of the MOOC Got It Wrong.”

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Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2018

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Class Central writes that “ Y Combinator’s Startup School MOOC To Give Out $10,000 to 100 Companies.” ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Strayer and Capella Merger Finalized.”

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Hack Education

JULY 13, 2018

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” (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.

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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”). “ Robots won’t replace teachers because they can’t inspire us.” Elsewhere in MOOC research… From Campus Technology : “Grouping MOOC Students by Communication Mode Doesn’t Help Completion.” MOOCs losing their mojo?

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Class Central : “ Monetizing A MOOC Platform.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Probably my favorite “robots are the future of education” story in a good, long while.

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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.” From the HR Department.

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