Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2023

Coursera’s tinkering with engagement tools points to a stark hypothesis about what may be hurtling toward the American higher education system. I like that WGU doesn’t force us into a semester system, with three to four classes every semester. Today’s online courses are evolved cousins of the early MOOC, or massive open online course.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2018

Unfortunately, most massive open online course (MOOC) platforms still feel like drafty lecture halls instead of intimate seminar rooms. This means giving people small chambers of engagement where they can interact with a smaller, more manageable and yet still diverse groups. These design choices have noticeable implications.

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2022

A “Facebook Classes Instructor” group shows roughly 3,100 people signed up to trial the program. If you’re interested in learning to code: I’m creating a Facebook group where I and others are going to teach free classes - enough to get you to the point you could start charging a bit, so you can get paid to learn the rest.

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EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 7, 2018

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). MOOC is not a new concept in the e-learning industry. Many prestigious universities such as Harvard offers MOOC at minimal or no cost. MOOC also offers group collaboration and feedback through online evaluation. Learning Management System (LMS).

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2019

But Ben Nelson, the Minerva Project’s founder and CEO, says that as it has shopped around its system, it got pushback on the issue of scale. So the company spent the last year trying to retool its system to allow an engaging experience on a larger scale. Why cap the system at 400? “It

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The Shake Up Learning Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2022

It’s not a perfect system, but keep in mind that it was designed to protect students and your Google accounts. SAT/ACT Study Groups. When it comes time to prepare for the SAT and ACT, often times students will form study groups across the area or region. Badging Systems. Invite Outside Experts into Your Class.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2018

While not quite the “Year of the MOOC,” 2018 saw a resurgence in interest around the ways these massive open online courses are delivering free (and more often these days, not free) online education around the world, and how these providers are increasingly turning to traditional institutions of learning. Without a University Involved.).

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Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2020

A national working group that I was recently a part of—led by non-profit Opportunity America—recently produced a report that aptly characterized the community college as “ the indispensable institution.” As a group, we called for a reimagining of community college, including moving toward more alignment with industry and more digital options.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 8, 2022

And some state governments are applying this system to help their residents directly. The report divides these credentials into 18 categories across four types of providers: postsecondary educational institutions, MOOC organizations, secondary schools and non-academic entities. provide credentials: 59,692.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Coursera was a pioneer in offering MOOCs, or massive open online courses, in partnership with hundreds of top colleges. While attention around MOOCs has died down, the company seems to have found a business model for free courses with something it calls Specializations.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2022

It has also led to the rise of new groups, called DAOs, that are experimenting with less-hierarchical ways to conduct business. Among them: Are crypto-entrepreneurs imagining better systems for education—or just systems that pay off better financially for themselves? That would be the block chain. And that raises questions.

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Linways Technologies

APRIL 22, 2020

Data-Driven Results As an institution, the way you treat education and manage it is different from MOOCs or short-term online courses. Online exams, assignments, group discussions, results, rank lists, various criteria involved in ranking like the scholarships or external points all need to be considered. Student-teacher interactions.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

And it is looking to rebrand its annual conference as well, to stress that the event is just one service offered by the group, not the main attraction. The group’s new ISTE U is a partnership with Dominican University, in California, and D2L, a learning management system provider.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2020

“We want to build from the ground up an inclusive learning system for students and faculty, one that can recreate engaging, live learning experiences online,” says Dan Avida. Students are “seated” in virtual tables, in groups of up to 10. Students “seated” at different virtual tables groups on Engageli.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 11, 2017

In an effort to bring this latest learning science to educators, the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation has connected its Learning Differences MOOC-Ed with Digital Promise Global’s Learner Positioning System to create a micro-credential stack focusing on learner diversity and students’ learning differences.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 5, 2021

Unguided communities tend to have difficulty progressing beyond the second stage of development, because group members can become distracted from the community’s intended purpose. scheduling, age-grouping, separation by content area, etc.). facebook groups or something similar) ‘need’ functional technology (e.g.,

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2019

The round was led by Australia-based SEEK Group, which invests in and scales online employment and education businesses; existing investors Future Fund and NEA also participated. based company has now raised a total of $314 million, according to Crunchbase. Lifelong learning is something that happens.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2017

Alexandra Pickett Pickett is not alone, in a study conducted in 2014 by Ithaka S+R at University System of Maryland , researchers found that when students took new MOOC courses, they expressed extreme dissatisfaction with the programs, saying they felt they learned less than their peers in traditional classes.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Some of the podcasters got their start making educational videos or or producing MOOCs, those free online classes that were all the rage a few years ago, but ended up not living up to the hype. That’s the case for Davis, who for several years was a producer of video classes for HarvardX, Harvard’s MOOC production wing. “I

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EdNews Daily

APRIL 26, 2017

But for all the sophistication of the Internet age, the idea of getting top quality college courses online for free, and using them for credits in the traditional college system, is only now being tested. Online courses tied to the traditional credit system have allowed them to unlock a brighter future.

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techieMusings

MAY 19, 2016

They are assigned to a table with a partner and then turn to their Learning Management System for their assigned task. Sophomores have the opportunity to spend a period of their day learning through a MOOC of their choosing. Sophomores have the opportunity to spend a period of their day learning through a MOOC of their choosing.

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MIND Research Institute

MAY 17, 2017

Below, we have collected some Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) as well as open courseware, so you can choose your own learning adventure this summer. Effective Group Work Strategies. This course will provide educators with strategies for developing, implementing, and assessing student group work. ”. Mathematical Mindsets.

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ProfHacker

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Thanks to Gardner Campbell for sharing it while collaboratively annotating an article for the #OpenLearning17 MOOC. Jo Freeman writes: “to strive for a structureless group is as useful, and as deceptive, as to aim at an “objective” news story, “value-free” social science, or a “free” economy.

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Edsurge

MAY 17, 2017

Now that we’ve assembled international crowds of motivated, smart people online in MOOCs, it’s time to think about harnessing their collective intelligence to tackle these urgent cross-boundary issues. We invite up to 1,000 students who have previously completed two or more of our free MOOCs to apply to participate in these challenges.

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Edsurge

MAY 29, 2018

in Management of Information Systems from Claremont Graduate University. When I joined Ashford, the MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) had just started and it was quite an interesting movement. Yes, but for my business information systems students, virtual labs have helped. Ashford was one of the leading schools in that area.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

The self-driving car program, launched last September, currently has 10,000 students enrolled (from 42,000 applicants), and the first cohort from this group is set to graduate on Oct. Founded in 2012, Udacity initially sought to work with universities as a provider of massive online open courses (MOOCs). Sorry, Peter.)

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

Gradescope is hardly the first group to give automated grading a shot. Other efforts such as MOOC platform edX’s Enhanced AI Scoring Engine have similarly tried to use automation to reduce the time educators spend on grading. To use Gradescope, a grader scans exams or assignments into the platform and each question is given a rubric.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 6, 2017

I observed that completion rates between these two groups of course participants were strikingly different. They were incredibly hardworking people, but the ones creating the most significant social impact in the world were also often too busy to finish a MOOC. I could hardly blame them.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Imagine students in a control group go from 50% on a pre-test to 60% on a post-test, whereas in the treatment group they go from 50% to 80%,” he explains. The window on the right looks like a typical computer desktop running the Windows operating system. For him, improving the speed of learning is just part of it.

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 2, 2017

It’s not a perfect system, but keep in mind that it was designed to protect students and your G Suite for Education accounts. SAT/ACT Study Groups. When it comes time to prepare for the SAT and ACT, often times students will form study groups across the area or region. Badging Systems.

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Hack Education

JULY 7, 2017

Via Politico : “The American Action Forum , a right-leaning public policy group, is recommending that DeVos consider gutting the federal student aid pilot programs created under the Higher Education Act. ” Some of these experimental sites included MOOCs and coding bootcamps. State and Local) Education Politics.

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Linways Technologies

JANUARY 6, 2023

In today’s examination system, when we consider the bloom taxonomy, bottom-level memorization occupies a dominant place, while comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation are of less importance. Internship experiences, adding MOOCs, and Co-Curricular experiences are some other methods to assess students.

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techieMusings

MAY 19, 2016

They are assigned to a table with a partner and then turn to their Learning Management System for their assigned task. Sophomores have the opportunity to spend a period of their day learning through a MOOC of their choosing. Sophomores have the opportunity to spend a period of their day learning through a MOOC of their choosing.

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Edsurge

APRIL 21, 2021

As on other large platforms that host so-called “user-generated content,” only a small number of creators end up making a living off the site, and a few of those end up as superstars within its system. Five-Star Rating System Many of the top teachers on the platform have no formal teaching experience.

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Wired Campus

JUNE 5, 2015

Last spring a group of university leaders announced a bold, new project intended to help colleges gain more control of their online course platforms, as they increasingly turned to providers like Coursera or edX. A year later some observers are wondering what the group has actually accomplished, and where the consortium is headed.

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2018

I remember in the early part of this decade, or the last decade, when about 10 colleges got together and they were going to create their own learning management system. Then along come these other guys who say, “We’re going to do nothing but a learning management system, or whatever it might be.” And it just was a disaster.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Her areas of specialization include Futures, Asynchronous Learning, Management, Strategic Planning, Interpersonal Communications, Marketing and Public Relations, Group Dynamics, and Cultural Diversity. In Fall 2014 she led a MOOC, The Emerging Future: Technology Issues and Trends, that attracted over 1700 global participants.

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