EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Another is the rise of the MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) or online instructional platforms like edX, Coursera, or Udacity. For example, if students or newly hired professors decide to dive into a new startup enterprise, is there a path by which they can remain enrolled, drawing upon — and adding to — the resources of the institution?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 20, 2011

Meet the ATLAST Explore participants and start networking using Google+. Session will also include a brief how-to on Google+ and a brainstorming activity of ways to implement Google+ with students. We will also be crowd sourcing a monthly webinar schedule to offer PD based sessions using Common Core Standards and STEM resources.

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 25, 2016

As one anecdote to consider, Kamenetz mentioned a new product, which provides surveillance software for K-12. The company making this software claimed as an achievement to have prevented three suicides by detecting self-harm signals through pupils’ digital activity. It’s not easy to assign resources for this.

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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. The MOOC backlash. Of course I have to start with MOOCs. The MOOC backlash started in earnest in 2013. MOOC providers will keep on refining them. Introduction.

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Educator Innovator

JULY 3, 2018

Much of the current rhetoric about technology and education relates to devices and software programs—what types schools should purchase, how much money districts should spend on them, how they should be integrated into classroom learning, and what return on investment they should produce.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Friday, February 21st in Washington DC iEARN: Global Education Resource Fair , iEARN-USA will be participating in the Global Education Resource Fair in Washington, DC on February 21st, 2014 as part of the Teachers for Global Classrooms (TGC) program. Presidents'' Day resources. Classroom 2.0 Check out her post here.

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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. Although teachers have advanced resources, many are unsure how best to implement them in the classroom. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are also excellent resources, offering free classes from world-renowned universities.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

A learning theory “in which networked learners not only construct and assimilate their own knowledge from their own learning opportunities, but deliberately contribute their own learning to a community resource base.”( Learning expressly through online courses and related digital resources. Google Apps for Education.

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ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 1, 2019

Interactive resources and video content can quickly be provided for pupils to use at an appropriate time in their learning. Teacher may have to create additional resources. In order to reduce the amount of new content a teacher needs to make, YouTube videos, MOOC s, multiple choice questions and web-based resources can be combined.

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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. “Software is eating the world,” investor Marc Andreessen pronounced in a Wall Street Journal op-ed in 2011.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 11, 2014

With the tablet classroom in mind, Common Sense Media, well-renowned for their digital citizenship curriculum and resources, now offers resources for teaching digital citizenship in an iPad classroom. First up: 3D prosthetic hands Scientists work on backing up human brain with computers A MOOC MYSTERY: WHERE DO ONLINE STUDENTS GO?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2017

They can be something everybody uses; that’s how 2012 became the year of the MOOC, and why virtual reality will no doubt be widely cited as the trend of 2016. MOOCs continued to increase in number and attendance. By Stephen Downes, National Research Council. Now there are different ways things can be a ‘trend of the year’.

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Hack Education

MAY 25, 2018

” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ New York Doubles Down on Open Educational Resources.” 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.” ” Finally.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 22, 2014

He''ll also provide an overview of the accompanying educational resources. Friday, April 25th in Denver, CO Making a Better World: Digital Citizenship & Literacy for K-12 , Empower youth to be in control of their online lives by teaching them digital citizenship using Common Sense Media resources. More information here.

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2018

One selling point of MOOCs (massive online open courses) has been that students can access courses from the world’s most famous universities. He also happens to be the co-founder of Coursera itself, and it was his Stanford course on machine learning that helped launch the MOOC craze in the first place. million enrollments. (It

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Hack Education

JUNE 17, 2016

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). From the press release : “Achieving the Dream Launches Major National Initiative to Help 38 Community Colleges in 13 States Develop New Degree Programs Using Open Educational Resources.” ” More via The Chronicle of Higher Education.

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Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2017

“The Year of the MOOC” – I was summoned to Palo Alto, California for a small gathering to discuss the future of teaching, learning, and technology. Perhaps with this data, the MOOC providers can build a map of professional if not cognitive pathways. Let me begin with a story. Efficiency.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Pokémon Go, a free augmented reality game developed by Niantic (a company spun out of Google in 2015), became the most popular mobile game in US history this year. I’ll look more closely at discrimination by design – in software and in algorithms – in the final article in this series.) Why collect data?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 1, 2016

’” Online Education, Beyond “MOOCs” Via Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill : “The Remarkable Transformation at UF Online.” ” No mention that Bertelsmann is an investor in Udacity, or that Udacity’s founder is a former Google exec. Via Techcrunch : “ Google launches App Maker.”

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Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2018

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). The company: RIB Software SE. Perhaps this story fits better in the “human resources” section below, but I’ll stick it here. Class Central writes that “ Y Combinator’s Startup School MOOC To Give Out $10,000 to 100 Companies.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Or the company will have to start charging for the software. In 2018, Mozilla said it would retire Backpack, its platform for sharing and displaying badges, and would help users move their badges to Badgr, software developed by the tech company Concentric Sky. The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That).

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Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

As Stephen Downes comments , “I find it interesting that they refer throughout to ‘ openly licensed educational materials ’ rather than ‘open educational resources’ – I wonder what the reasoning was behind that.” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Rebrand.

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Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Lots of MOOC PR appeared in the news this week. ” “What if MOOCs Revolutionize Education After All?” “Now that MOOCs are mainstream, where does online learning go next?” And more on MOOCs in the credentialing section below as well.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 19, 2018

Department of Education is looking for nonprofit organizations to help support its #GoOpen campaign to nurture state and district take-up of ‘open’ educational resources ,” says EdWeek’s Market Brief. ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Doane University has joined edX.

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Hack Education

JULY 8, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Fortune : “ Android Co-Founder To Lead Google ’s New Education Project.” ” In recent years, Rich Miner has been an investor in Google’s venture capital wing, Google Ventures. ” From the HR Department. 10 ways it could?”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 13, 2016

If you want a job as a software developer in the technology industry, you’ll need a college degree. million ads for software-developer jobs nationwide. million ads for software-developer jobs nationwide. ” MOOCs for credit. Preferably from Stanford.) Keep Away From Coding Schools.” Microcredentials.

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Hack Education

APRIL 27, 2018

.’” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Reminder: a lot of MOOC news is now job training news, so you’ll find some updates in that section below. EdTech Strategies’ Doug Levin has launched The K–12 Cybersecurity Resource Center. “Try Google.”

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Hack Education

MARCH 24, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ Coursera Removes Biometric Identity Verification Using Keystroke Matching,” Class Central reports. Via Google’s blog : “ Howard University opens a new campus at the Googleplex.” ” Bye, Mercator. Accreditation and Certification.

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Big HR news about Coursera in the HR section below. Here’s the headline from Inside Higher Ed : “For-Credit MOOC: Best of Both Worlds at MIT ?” ” But if you look closer, it’s not a MOOC; it’s just an online class at MIT.

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Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Here’s The Chronicle headline from then : “Professor Leaves a MOOC in Mid-Course in Dispute Over Teaching.”) Good thing I never did anything in those MOOCs, otherwise I'd be losing my work. Remember Richard McKenzie? ” asks Education Dive.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” MOOCs are dead , according to Udacity ’s VP. ” Never one to let a good MOOC story pass them by, Edsurge repeats the story. “MOOCs Are ”Dead.“ million in Series B funding from Google Ventures. “ What’s Next?

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Hack Education

MAY 27, 2016

And speaking of copyrighting a language of a warlike people, the Oracle v Google case had its closing arguments this week. On Thursday, the judge gave Google the victory , ruling that the company’s use of the Java API fell under fair use provisions. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Try Employers.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Our society likes opportunity because it does not demand redistribution of resources acquired through harm. 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.”

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Hack Education

AUGUST 18, 2017

Via NPR : “Resources For Educators To Use In The Wake Of Charlottesville.” Tune into the Contrafabulists podcast this weekend, when Kin Lane and I will discuss the response (or lack thereof) from the tech industry, including Cloudflare , Spotify , Squarespace , GoDaddy , Google , the EFF , and others.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “How Much Hollywood Glitz Should Colleges Use in Their Online Courses ?” And there’s some human resources news in the HR section below too. ” Via the AP : “ Iowa City schools to stop using padded seclusion rooms.”

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Class Central : “ XuetangX : A Look at China’s First and Biggest MOOC Platform.” The work is also supported by companies including Apple , Google and Expedia , as well as education organizations including the CollegeBoard , Teach For America and STEMx.”

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news down in the “labor and management” section below. Remember: the biases of engineers and managers get baked into the software you use. Enjoy your Google for Education products ! Indiana University has joined edX.

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