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

MARCH 29, 2017

The colleges create course videos and assignments that are offered on the company’s platform for free—and students can pay for a certificate showing completion. It has been five year since Coursera launched its first MOOCs. But not many professors are actually using Coursera material as the video content for on-campus courses.

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EdTech4Beginners

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

They’ve aided the beginnings of ‘flipped’ classrooms – where students view video lectures or read background material at home and spend their class time being guided through exercises, projects, or discussions on the material. VLEs are fast becoming an irreplaceable tool for teachers and we’ve yet to see their full potential.

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eSpark

APRIL 7, 2022

MOOC refers to a massive online open course, a type of distance learning. MOOCs are generally prevalent in higher education, but are starting to be used at the high school level as well. This means that students watch video lectures at home with education technology and work on exercises or projects during class time.

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Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2017

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? Of course the irony is that all the people who are really good at this are the video game designers. A video game can be pleasantly frustrating for everybody simultaneously.

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Wired Campus

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

When students enroll in MOOCs, they almost always watch a series of video lectures. But just watching videos — without also engaging interactively — is an ineffective way to learn, according to a study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University. Those in the MOOC-only course scored an average of 57 percent on the final.

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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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Bryan Alexander

MAY 27, 2016

In this post I’ll share my notes along with the complete video recording. 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. Bonk mentions more MOOC research he did, available at this site.

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ProfHacker

AUGUST 18, 2015

While late-night video chats have their own challenges, that course gave me plenty of opportunities to hear directly from each student and encourage collaboration and discussion. As attached as I am to these hands-on shared exercises, I’m replacing them with message-board based exercises that should meet the same outcomes.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

MOOC uses new AP Physics curriculum, could aid both students and teachers. A free online course from Rice University uses attention-grabbing videos, interactive lab activities, dramatic physics demonstrations, engaging instructors and a free online textbook to help high school students prepare for the Advanced Placement (AP) Physics 1 Exam.

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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. This story was published in partnership with The Moonshot Catalog.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2021

While at edX Porter created the Open edX project, which has served more than 55 million learners taking massive open online courses, or MOOCs. Bad television” is how Shrier described the traditional modes of online learning, which largely consisted of video lessons and online quizzes.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 29, 2014

It runs for 2 weeks (October 20-31) with video presentations uploaded daily Monday through Friday. Finally, another science teacher will briefly share exercises in engineering design. Check out this short video where our friend, Eric Sheninger, shares his vision of Digital Leadership. Details to join the webinar at [link].

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Sure, there are sophisticated online lectures where learners can see one another on screen and break out into small groups to chat via video. 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.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Those, if you remember, centered around this spoof video created by my colleagues John Golden and Dave Coffey. Case in point: As readers of this blog know, I expended over 100 hours of my own time last semester making over 14 hours of video content for my transition-to-proof class to help implement this vision locally with my own students.

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Khan Academy Flipped Classroom Video Exercises 52

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Updates Calendar of Events Deadlines Highlighted Recordings Conversations Submit a Video or Quote Kudos Updates GlobalEdCon Celebration and Meetup Reminder. Karen Cameron shares this 8 step exercise to teach students (and teachers) how to actively listen to their peers. Click here to register. Her post, Do You Hear Me Now? Thanks, Ted!

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MindShift

DECEMBER 14, 2015

In our own time, advocates of online learning promise to level the educational playing fields with massive open online courses, MOOCs. The most compelling evidence for the democratizing power of MOOCs comes from a new generation of Horatio Alger stories, where the video lecture replaces the bootblack’s cloth.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

They noted the menu of research reports, graphics and videos, and the “About” page describing the site as a project of a “nonprofit research organization” called the Employment Policies Institute. They got duped.”. Or, as one student put it, loudly, “fudge nuggets!”.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

” “Make MOOCs great again.” ” Via Edsurge : “Making Video Games for Higher Ed Requires Major Investment. Trump’s education platform promises to “make post-secondary options more affordable and accessible through technology enriched delivery models.” Is that possible? Is It Worth It?”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Whether it’s selling schools or MOOCs or access to the Internet itself , technology companies and education companies are, as Edsurge put it, “ Building Effective Edtech Business Models to Reach the Global Poor.” ” The material involved MOOCs that it had produced with edX as well as videos posted to iTunes and YouTube.

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