Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Perhaps the Silicon Valley tech billionaire should learn how to build one himself—and sign up for a class from Udacity. Udacity already offers a self-driving car nanodegree but, as its founder and former CEO Sebastian Thrun writes , it “has many prerequisites [and] is built for seasoned software engineers.”

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Silicon Valley's historical amnesia — the inability to learn about, to recognize, to remember what has come before — is deeply intertwined with the idea of "disruption" and its firm belief that new technologies are necessarily innovative and are always "progress. AllLearn was short for Alliance for Lifelong Learning.

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Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

Some new services and platforms will emerge to cater for different forms of learning, MOOCs will evolve and improve and open badges will be hot. Look out for rhizomatic learning. The MOOC backlash. Of course I have to start with MOOCs. The MOOC backlash started in earnest in 2013. Introduction.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2018

These are my prepared remarks, delivered on a panel titled “Outsourcing the Classroom to Ed Tech & Machine-learning: Why Parents & Teachers Should Resist” at the Network for Public Education conference in Indianapolis. MOOCs were going to change everything. The other panelists were Peter Greene and Leonie Haimson.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2018

What did bother me, however, was how many of these technologies were only adding a digital component to the same learning practices teachers used when I was a student there just a few years ago. 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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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

We could participate in a number of free Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs), including over a dozen on Chinese History from Harvard University. We could learn about maps and the geospatial revolution from a professor at Penn State University. As John Dewey noted, we learn what we do. And so on… .

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2017

MOOC companies typically account for the bump in the “Post-Secondary” category, but aside from Coursera’s $64 million Series D round, few other companies focused in higher education scored a large deal. We’ve seen the most interest in SaaS (software-as-a-service) models where the product is complementary to an existing platform.”.

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Educator Innovator

JULY 3, 2018

From Connected Learning to Connected Teaching , a special issue of CITE Journal , examines the need to bring the transformative principles of connected learning into teacher education, and explores some of the work already underway. Give teachers and students laptops and Google Classroom accounts and magic will ensue.

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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. ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) Arguably, one of the best candidates is the learning management system.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 2, 2016

This year’s cohort, whose products range from game-based learning to AI-generated flashcards, has a lot to be excited about. raised more than $9 million in a recent Series A round , and handheld wireless sensor company PocketLab is now teaming up with Google to bring the pocket-sized lab equipment to the Google Science Journal.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Oberlin College, for example, with its motto of “Learning and Labor,” requires students during each month-long “ winter term ” to pursue growth opportunities outside the traditional classroom, such as internships, research, or other projects. In some ways, this is nothing new. Or must they take a leave of absence? This is a vital issue.

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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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Gaggle Speaks

MARCH 25, 2015

Today, Gaggle provides our Safe Classroom Learning Management System and Safety Management products for Google Apps for Education or Office 365 to millions of students who are creating, collaborating and sharing in a safe environment. Lesson learned #1: Eyeballs are not a business model. More lessons learned.

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Gaggle Speaks

MARCH 25, 2015

Today, Gaggle provides our Safe Classroom Learning Management System and Safety Management products for Google Apps for Education or Office 365 to millions of students who are creating, collaborating and sharing in a safe environment. Lesson learned #1: Eyeballs are not a business model. More lessons learned.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update February 4th Education is soul crafting. Cornel West Welcome to the Learning Revolution. The technologies of the Internet and the Web are reshaping where, when, and from whom we learn. The Learning Revolution Project highlights virtual and physical events from Web 2.0

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Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

Some new services and platforms will emerge to cater for different forms of learning, MOOCs will evolve and improve and open badges will be hot. Look out for rhizomatic learning. The MOOC backlash. Of course I have to start with MOOCs. The MOOC backlash started in earnest in 2013. Introduction.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 20, 2011

Below are this week''s public, free, and interactive Webinars through LearnCentral.org , the social learning network for education that I work on for Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). Meet the ATLAST Explore participants and start networking using Google+. In general, references management software is expensive.

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 25, 2016

We’ve made the full recording available as usual, via this direct link or the following embed: Inspired by her recent book, The Test , I began the conversation by asking how testing may change over the next few years, according to what the author learned from researching its history. poses a question for Anya K. BRYAN AND ANYA DISCUSS.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Learning Models, Theories, and Technology: A Dictionary For 21st Century Teachers. Purpose: Improving our chance for a common language in discussing existing and emerging learning trends, model, and technology in hopes of innovation in classrooms, and collectively, education at large. Activity-Based Learning. Blended Learning.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 16, 2020

Students use laptops, tablets, and myriad software to complete in-class work and at-home assignments. As a result, educators must stay on top of trends and pursue ongoing learning in technology. How to learn more about edtech options. Uncover solutions for educators and students with a Google for Education event.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2020

But one particularly promising solution to engaging adult learners and increasing degree attainment is to more intentionally integrate learning and work. Working adults are self-directed, bring experience into the classroom and prefer learning that is practical and problem-centered.

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ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 1, 2019

Over the past few years the education industry has been experiencing a shift away traditional learning environments. One of these practices is known as blended learning and the term that has been garnering some attention within the education industry as of late. But, what is blended learning? What is blended learning?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 6, 2014

This is a GREAT week for library learning and conversations! Forward this post to friends and colleagues.) Tomorrow, October 7th, our second annual “Connected Librarian Day” preconference kicks off at 3:30pm US-Eastern Daylight Time, led by Britten Follett, Joyce Valenza, Ross Todd, and Shannon Miller.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

DreamBox Learning (adaptive learning): $130 million. Connexeo (school administration software): $110 million. DadaABC (English language learning): $100 million. DadaABC.com (English language learning): $608.9 Knewton (adaptive learning): $182.3 Age of Learning (educational apps): $181.5

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Educator Innovator

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Technologists like Campbell, like me, see increased access as an opportunity to strengthen teaching and accelerate learning that schools may not recognize, much less seize. Late last spring my alarm rang early so I could join a Google Hangout with two eighth graders from Jack Zangerle’s 8th grade English class in New York’s Hudson Valley.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

When I first entered the virtual university a couple of decades ago as dean of online learning at Stevens Institute of Technology, I imagined, apart from instruction, that online and on campus in most respects would be pretty much the same. Surprisingly, just over twenty years later, things didn’t turn out that way in practice.

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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. ” Take “collaborative learning,” for example, which this year’s K–12 report posits as a mid-term trend.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

In the original article, I gave a list of what computing skills mathematics majors should learn and when they should learn them. I’ve learned Python over the last three years along with some of its related systems like NumPy and SciPy , and I’ve successfully used Python as a tool in my research.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 11, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update March 11th The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist." - Maria Montessori Welcome to the Learning Revolution. Learning Revolution Conference Online. The Learning Revolution Conference call for proposals is now open.

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2019

He’s the guy who coined the term MOOC, short for Massive Open Online Course, which then was a reference to multiplayer video games. Yeah, I quite disagree,” added Maria Andersen, CEO and co-founder of Coursetune, a company that makes software designed to help colleges redesign their curriculum.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). A glimpse : “In China ’s Silicon Valley, Edtech Starts at the ‘MOOC Times Building’ ” Via Class Central : “By The Numbers: MOOCs in 2018.” “ Can Online Learning Help Higher Ed Reverse Its Tuition Spiral?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2017

To get a glimpse into what the next 12 months will hold for everything from professional development to digital learning, and from communication to virtual reality, 15 ed tech luminaries looked back on 2016 edtech trends to help predict what’s in store for 2017. MOOCs continued to increase in number and attendance.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 19, 2016

One of the big stories this week: the US Department of Education ’s announcement about which “non-traditional providers” ( MOOCs , coding bootcamps ) will be eligible for financial aid as part of its EQUIP experiment. ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Google) biotech company, Calico.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “Aftermath of the MOOC wars: Can commercial vendors support creative higher education ? That led to him announcing a $10 million fund specifically for learning applications. Google has also rebranded Google Apps for Education as G Suite for Education.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 23, 2019

That’s why stories about the golly-gee-whiz prospects of learning to code, game-based learning, social emotional learning, artificial intelligence, blockchain transcripts, and tutoring — by chatbots or by gig workers — still fill the pages of these publications. Something about "learning engineers". Udacity got a new CEO.

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Hack Education

MAY 25, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). MOOCs are back in the headlines again. Via Edsurge : “The Second Wave of MOOC Hype Is Here, and It’s Online Degrees.” ” From the Google blog : “ Google Science Fair 2018 : Resources for educators to get ideas flowing.”

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 22, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update April 22nd The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn.and change. Carl Rogers The technologies of the Internet and the Web are reshaping where, when, and from whom we learn--and even how we think about learning. Check out all the fun at ISTEunplugged.com.

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