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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EdTechSandyK

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Notes from MOOCs for Professional Development Presentation at TCEA 2015 Dr. Kay Abernathy, Lamar University [link] Lamar University sponsored the MOOC on Social Media Communication Tools for Educators which Dr. Abernathy facilitated. You can build up to five MOOCs for free on this platform. link] What is a MOOC?

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2018

I decided to base my doctoral thesis on them: “ Tinkering in K–12: An Exploratory Mixed Methods Study of Makerspaces in Schools as an Application of Constructivist Learning.”. Offer a book study on Invent to Learn (the authors have created a study guide). Where is the learning? Is the design thinking process evident?

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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. Combine synchronous and asynchronous learning.

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The Principal of Change

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Not only is this a great way to dig deeper into the content of the book, it is an amazing opportunity to create your own learning, while networking with passionate educators around the world. Join the Facebook group. September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon! Twitter Chat. February 27, 8pm EST. Introduction.

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EdTechnocation.com

APRIL 2, 2014

Here is my Unit 2 reflection for the MOOC-Ed, Coaching Digital Learning: Cultivating a Culture of Change. Unit 2 focuses on the development of your PLN (Professional Learning Network) and becoming a "Connected Educator". Follow Michael''s board Coaching Digital Learning, #CDL_MOOCed on Pinterest.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 5, 2021

What Is An Asynchronous Learning Community? What Is Asynchronous Learning? An Asynchronous Learning Community is one where students learn together bound by some component–often a goal, topic, or learning space–rather than time (i.e., The Requirements Of An Effective Asynchronous Learning Community.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2017

The venture-backed startup based in Mountain View (near all those online giants like Google and Facebook) has partnered with more than 150 colleges and universities around the world (including the old and famous ones like Princeton and Yale). And he shares what lessons he’s learned working at a startup.

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The Principal of Change

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Thank you for signing up for “The Innovator’s Mindset” MOOC, happening over a six week period. We will begin on September 17, 2016 and finish at the end of October (although the learning will continue long after that). The goal of the MOOC and the book is to not only give practical advice, but to also inspire and develop leadership.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Could the rise in MOOC-based and other certificates affect how traditional college degree paths are designed? What role should employers have in the design or execution of digital learning opportunities? Several #DLNchat-ters described the importance of project-based learning opportunities through employee partnerships.

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EdTechnocation.com

APRIL 18, 2014

Unit 5 of the Coaching Digital Learning MOOC-Ed focused on Digital Citizenship. Everyone is responsible for helping our children learn the importance of our digital footprint and what is appropriate and not appropriate on the web. Facebook might have some creepers and inappropriate pictures, block it.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2020

In a recent conversation with EdSurge, Goel discussed how learning engineering researchers are applying artificial intelligence to help make high-quality education accessible, affordable and effective on a grand scale. EdSurge: How would you define “learning engineering?” It's the engineering of learning.

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Edsurge

MAY 4, 2022

To Coursera, the online learning platform and edtech “unicorn” that went public last year , this may represent an opportunity to serve as an institutional bridge for some of these universities in the struggle to stop the bleeding. Entry-level industry certificates are receiving a lot of attention these days.

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Perry Hewitt

JULY 3, 2015

Notable findings include that a clear majority of 58% seniors now use the internet — while the overall percentage is lower, it’s rising quickly (see also: Facebook). The first few years of widespread access to MOOCs have created a data trove for researchers.

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Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2017

But now we’ve had this whole paradigm shift from teaching to learning, from the stage on the stage to the guide on the side, which was the beginning of a revolution that really has to do with the brain—with cognition and behavioral science. We now understand much more about how the brain works and how learning works. College graduates.

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The Thinking Stick

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

…principals concluded that they want to hire new teachers with creative ideas about how technology can be leveraged to create authentic and differentiated learning experiences. How to handle a situation in which a parents sends you a DM on Facebook about their child (yes they can…yes it happens).

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 20, 2013

In education, the common objective is usually to learn specific content, skills or competencies within defined areas. Ostensibly, learning is an individual goal, and each student does tend to learn in their own way, using their own favoured approaches and tools. We refer to this as personalised learning ( a video explains ).

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JANUARY 30, 2018

Although education prepares us to teach, it is the love of learning that sustains us.”- Any teacher is invited to join and walk through the steps of learning how to regularly set instructional goals and transform the teaching and learning in their classes. Learning how to set achievable, short-term goals is so powerful!

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

EdSurge: Udacity rode the wave of hype around MOOCs, massive open online courses, when the company started back in 2011. But more recently, the company’s co-founder, Sebastian Thrun, has insisted that Udacity is not a MOOC company. Then there’s project-based learning. It’s project-based learning. We’re not a publisher.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

The prior year, my former chief Bill Gates headlined ASU GSV and received a standing ovation for championing technology’s power to transform teaching and learning. LMS and Digital Learning topped the hype cycle in 2001 (a few years before Blackboard went public). MOOCs topped the cycle in 2012. NASDAQ: UDMY), and Nerdy, Inc.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2022

They envision an ecosystem where learners buy access to courses without enrolling in colleges; where teachers profit directly from their teaching; where students track progress on ever-lengthening credential chains; and where people who invest in the right tokens gather in learning groups to explore topics of mutual interest.

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 19, 2016

Educational technology : I noted stories about MOOCs growing, social media, 3d printing stretching across the curriculum, brainstorming about VR and automation. Patrice (Cornell University) raised two topics: data analytics for learning, and MOOCs based on sustainability activism.

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Learning with 'e's

MAY 7, 2013

My own father, now 84 years old, started a Facebook account so he could keep in touch with distant relatives in such places as New Zealand and Australia. Many of us regularly communicate with multiple Twitter and Facebook friends and acquaintances instantaneously even though they may be in another country. The stories go on and on.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2018

In fact, aside from the predictable few flickers of Facebook and Twitter, it seemed most of the students were actually working on something productive. The current wave of education technology has been fraught with pedagogically unsound replications of the worst aspects of teaching and learning.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2018

Plus, it sounded a lot like a MOOC (short for “massive open online courses”)—free courses designed for thousands of students that were all the rage a few years ago, but which today are seen as having fallen far short of the hype. It’s a new kind of MOOC, and it’s a new kind of philosophy,” he says.

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ProfHacker

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Instead, we are looking at the following (not mutually-exclusive) categories: Social networks – as in tools like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and God knows what else lies in the future. Networked learning – as in focusing on the approach to learning being networked, connectivist, connected.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Chistopher Edmin (Associate Professor at Teachers College Columbia University) uses history, practice and theory to explore education’s most pressing issues: a lack of diversity among teachers, challenges faced by educators of color, and absence of student voice in the learning design process. to 11:00 p.m. K-12 11:00 a.m. 4:30 p.m.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 27, 2015

Join us this Thursday, April 30th, 2015 for the online Library 2.015 Spring Summit - The Emerging Future: Technology and Learning , a three-hour conversation about technology issues and trends in the future of library and information services with an amazing set of guest panelists and presenters. Sue Alman to develop this special event.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow. I was inspired, I think, to select that topic because talk of “platforms” was incredibly popular in Silicon Valley – it had been for a while – as companies strove to become “the next Facebook.”

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2019

What lessons can be learned from the rise and pivot of MOOCs, those large-scale online courses that proponents said would disrupt higher education? At the start of the MOOC trend in 2012, the promise was that the free online courses could reach students who could not afford or get access to other forms of higher education.

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EdTechTeacher

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Alec has given hundreds of workshops and presentations, nationally and internationally, on topics such as openness in education, networked learning, social media in education, digital citizenship, and critical media literacy. One day, Alec says that he tweeted out that he was thinking of starting a MOOC.

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Hack Education

APRIL 20, 2018

Remember, if you will, the insistence from the University of Virginia Board of Visitors that school was missing the “coming MOOC tsunami” based on columns they’d read in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. At ASU+GSV, I heard plenty of invocations about “digital natives” and “learning styles.”

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Beyond coursework, students swim in a flux of data, buffeted by phone calls, text messages, Facebook updates, Twitter tweets, news crawls, and other sources. Another is the rise of the MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) or online instructional platforms like edX, Coursera, or Udacity. In some ways, this is nothing new.

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Educator Innovator

MAY 18, 2015

During the first Connected Learning Massive Open Online Collaboration (CLMOOC), in 2013, participants were encouraged to make a map. The program embodies connected learning principles, and particularly encourages interest-driven learning. So who is the MOOC designed for? Sign up today for the 2015 CLMOOC!

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Fractus Learning

MAY 19, 2016

Most students feel left out of the engaged learning classroom, as well as tend to withdraw from or become bored with overall mechanical feel of the online learning process. Online learning does not need to be mechanical in nature. Engagement needs to take place in the online learning environment.

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ProfHacker

MARCH 26, 2015

[ Maha Bali is Associate Professor of Practice at the Center for Learning and Teaching at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. Many first-time users are cautious with their privacy settings at first, protecting tweets, not allowing anyone to follow them without their approval – they think they are on facebook.

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Wired Campus

AUGUST 6, 2015

George Siemens is a key innovator in higher education, having coined the term “MOOC” and worked to study the effectiveness of online learning. This is one of the most inaccurate pieces of @#%$ floating around in the ‘disrupt and transform’ learning crowd,” Mr. Siemens wrote. Explore any campus today. has,” he said.

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