Mark Smithers

MARCH 12, 2013

This morning Richard Grusin posted a series of twenty tweets presenting a highly critical and thought provoking view of MOOCs. MOOCs are the bastard children of 1980s cyber-utopianism and post-1945 economic neoliberalism. MOOCs are a 21st century manifestation of cyberspace’s revolutionary ideology of information freedom.

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eSpark

APRIL 7, 2022

Think of it as a cheat sheet to help you learn all you need to know about technology in the classroom! It is also often referred to as “hybrid learning” and can incorporate many different types of education technology. MOOC refers to a massive online open course, a type of distance learning.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Until lately, those online MIT courses have somewhat resembled so-called massive open online courses, or MOOCs, says Clara Piloto, director of global programs at MIT Professional Education. Now, as MOOCs have evolved to court professional audiences , so too have MIT’s efforts to harness companies and organizations.

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2020

In my 2014 book “ MOOCS Essentials ,” I reflected on each aspect of the residential learning process and how developers of massive open online courses were trying to replicate those experiences virtually, or come up with ways to keep students engaged without direct teacher-student interaction.

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2019

MOOCs, shorthand for massive open online courses, have been widely critiqued for their miniscule completion rates. This does not necessarily make MOOCs a failure. That’s a far cry from five years ago, when only 5 percent of the students were finishing the MOOCs I was designing. Use the power of peer pressure.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2017

EdSurge talked with Rick Levin, CEO of Coursera (and former president of one of those big-name universities, Yale) about how the mega-courses known as MOOCs have changed in the five years since the start of their hype-filled debut. It has been five year since Coursera launched its first MOOCs. How’s that going?

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eSpark

APRIL 7, 2022

Think of it as a cheat sheet to help you learn all you need to know about technology in the classroom! It is also often referred to as “hybrid learning” and can incorporate many different types of education technology. MOOC refers to a massive online open course, a type of distance learning.

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2018

The MOOC is an extension of the on-campus course—it was really just making our on-campus experience public and open for anyone to follow,” says Barba. But Barba believes it is still uncharted territory for many science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines and instructors.

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Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2017

Years ago Bowen coined the term “teaching naked,” meaning teaching without technology like PowerPoint. The fitness coach can’t exercise for you. A fitness coach is a fitness coach because he or she likes to exercise, and that’s why they’re all buff, right? These MOOCs are free. And who does best at MOOCs?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

What may sound like a meditative exercise in patience does have a practical purpose. -based nonprofit has found 738,428 unique credentials in the U.S., according to a new report published Wednesday. Almost half are offered by non-academic organizations.

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Bryan Alexander

MAY 27, 2016

Curt began by describing the use of MOOCs for faculty and staff development, with examples such as a University of London effort. In fact, open MOOCs can work for any population, esp. I asked how open learning works for non-professionals, citing research showing many MOOC users are already professionals and/or academics.

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Edsurge

MAY 14, 2017

Sharma has a background in technology and video production (he actively researches and writes about educational technology and knowledge translation) led him to consider how to bridge that divide. He saw young learners acquiring knowledge and skills through watching YouTube videos and thought, why not apply that idea to medicine?

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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). Relationships are the foundations of learning,” he said.

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Linways Technologies

JANUARY 6, 2023

The lack of this connection makes the whole exercise ineffective. Internship experiences, adding MOOCs, and Co-Curricular experiences are some other methods to assess students. appeared first on Linways Technologies. Also, the present examination questions are more focused on lower cognitive skills.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

MOOC uses new AP Physics curriculum, could aid both students and teachers. “The effective application of technology has enormous significance for the future of higher education, and it is important for Rice to push the boundaries of what is possible with a MOOC,” Levander said. “This isn’t a typical MOOC.

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Learning with 'e's

DECEMBER 8, 2015

There are all sorts of possibilities thanks to new technologies. Although distance education has been in existence for more than a century, the various technological means by which it can now be conducted have advanced quickly. What are the challenges of these new learning environments?

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

In the late 1960s, Nobel Prize-winning economist Herbert Simon posed the following thought exercise: Imagine you are an alien from Mars visiting a college on Earth, and you spend a day observing how professors teach their students. Mathematics lecture at the Helsinki University of Technology. Acuitus’s earliest client was the U.S.

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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. MOOCs were a vetting mechanism for Usman, allowing both his talent and grit to rise to attention and connecting him to an opportunity halfway around the world.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Participatory, hyperlinked library services; DIY and maker movements; emerging technology in academic and research libraries; Google Glass—our Library 2.014 conference covered a broad range of topics and these were among the most notable. Join this free Library Journal webcast covering the highlights of each one and offering key takeaways.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2021

The demand for innovative digital learning technology has never been higher. While at edX Porter created the Open edX project, which has served more than 55 million learners taking massive open online courses, or MOOCs. Esme is its first education technology investment. And investment continues to flow into the edtech space.

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Learning with 'e's

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

M y key premise is that l earning technology is just about everywhere in education. How might we harness the powerful potential of these tools and technologies to engage students more, and enhance learning in higher education? We have the technology. I plan to discuss our possible responses to this.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

This fall, students taking introductory statistics courses at six colleges will pilot using a tool to complete lab exercises in teams, working in sync with partners who are miles away. MOOCs get social. In summer 2016 Rosé and her team used Bazaar to run a team-based project for a MOOC offered by the Smithsonian Institution.

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Edsurge

APRIL 6, 2017

Education technology is riddled with temptations and false promises. But if you ask Mark Brown, a professor and director of the National Institute for Digital Learning at Dublin City University in Ireland, problems such as falling for hype around new technology is an absolute moral dilemma. I have been guilty of taming the technology.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JULY 28, 2017

I actually did this for one of my Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). Peeragogy is a flexible approach to digital learning in which the teacher and students use technology to apply knowledge together. The “ Drawing Exercise ” activity is from Green River Community College. Gamify your syllabus!

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

This troubling tendency to double down on one’s own preconceptions reflects the millions in other people’s money spent by [Edison Schools founder Chris] Whittle to design the “optimal” K–12 school model—which magically produced exactly the model that Whittle thought made the most sense before the expensive masturbatory exercise started.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The goal: to create a complete educational approach–with video lectures, online exercises, badges to reward student progress, an analytics dashboard for teachers to track that progress and more–that can be integrated into existing classrooms or serve as a stand-alone virtual school for anyone wanting to learn something new.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

The technologies of the Internet and the Web are reshaping where, when, and from whom we learn. Sunday, March 2nd at 1pm CoSN - Wisconsin CTO Clinic , Join the Wisconsin Educational Technology Leaders (WETL) and CoSN for their first Annual CTO Clinic! Mark Twain Welcome to the Learning Revolution. Labs and its partners. Register here.

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MindShift

DECEMBER 14, 2015

For almost a century, technology enthusiasts have promised that new innovations can democratize education. In our own time, advocates of online learning promise to level the educational playing fields with massive open online courses, MOOCs. As powerful as these stories are, the extensive data collected by MOOCs tell another story.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Some proposed solutions would use so-called massive open online courses, or MOOCs, which have low success rates; only between 2 and 10 percent of students who begin a MOOC complete it, research has found. A Harvard study , however, showed that people who enroll in MOOCs intending to earn degrees finish at a higher rate, of 22 percent.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Gotta keep that MOOC hype alive. “ MOOCs Find a New Audience with On-Campus Students,” Edsurge claims. National) Education Politics. million total.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Trump’s education platform promises to “make post-secondary options more affordable and accessible through technology enriched delivery models.” ” “Make MOOCs great again.” Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 11, 2016. ” Trump has threatened to close the Department of Education. Is that possible?

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Hack Education

MARCH 17, 2017

811 , a California bill that would establish the right to computer technology. ” “ NoRedInk Adds New Exercises to Prepare Students for ACT, SAT,” says Edsurge. The Chronicle of Higher Education profiles DeVry : “A For-Profit-College Company Embraces Its Technology-Focused Past and Its Evolving Future.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I also want to consider that, with or without a President Trump , education technology also might make things worse, might also contribute to these ongoing inequalities – and not simply because many in ed-tech seem quite eager to work with the new administration. ” It has reshaped work. Or they back Donald Trump.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2017

Some proposed solutions would use so-called massive open online courses, or MOOCs, which have low success rates; only between 2 and 10 percent of students who begin a MOOC complete it, research has found. A Harvard study , however, showed that people who enroll in MOOCs intending to earn degrees finish at a higher rate, of 22 percent.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 17, 2016

This took 20 slides , touching on two-tier pedagogy, the rise of adjunctification, student poverty, etc: To drive the point home I offered a very slight, very basic futures exercise. When it came to technology, a tripartite division had opened up. How would academia change if these trends continued into the medium-term future?

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