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Moving From 5% to 85% Completion Rates for Online Courses

Edsurge

MOOCs, shorthand for massive open online courses, have been widely critiqued for their miniscule completion rates. Industry reports and instructional designers alike typically report that only between 5 to 15 percent of students who start free open online courses end up earning a certificate. Use the power of peer pressure.

Course 161
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Makerspace Educators Need Professional Development, Too

EdTech Magazine

In fact, an astounding 40 percent of makerspace teachers reported that they had received no PD on makerspaces at all. 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.”. That’s 40 percent too many.

Education 404
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Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics: Some Thoughts from ASU+GSV

Hack Education

I was there on a reporting trip, as part of the research I’m doing as a Spencer Fellow. I’m also working on a magazine article that’ll come out this fall on education technology and venture capital. Yes, I went to ASU+GSV – my first time at the event in the event’s nine year history.

Kaplan 58
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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

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.” ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. Think Facebook.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via The Hechinger Report : “Most immigrants outpace Americans when it comes to education – with one big exception.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Lots of news this week about Facebook and Cambridge Analytica. ” Spoiler alert: Latinos. Education in the Courts.

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Learning Revolution Free PD - Two Great Library Events - GlobalEdCon Deadline - UNC's Amazing World View

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Samantha Adams Becker taught the first online course ever to take place in Facebook. In this half-day event, library professionals, educators, and thought leaders will explore four major themes from the NMC Horizon Report > 2014 Library Edition , which was downloaded over 1 million times in the first eight days after publication!

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

NeverEndingSearch

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. Facebook Argument : Students consider the relative strength of evidence that two users present in a Facebook exchange.