Teacher Reboot Camp

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Participants in my current free online course, The Goal-Minded Teacher MOOC ( #EduGoalsMOOC ), designed learning missions this past week to inspire their learners. See a few participant missions below for a range of subjects and age groups and discover more in our Pinterest board.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JULY 28, 2017

Ask me about training your teachers, ShellyTerrell@gmail.com ! I actually did this for one of my Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). Place students in small groups and assign a section of the syllabus. Each group visually represents their part of the syllabus or creates a comic illustrating it with butcher paper and pens.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2019

But NYU isn’t the only school trying to offer free medical training. Instead, MOOC providers see an opportunity in helping medical professionals keep their knowledge and skills up to date after they graduate, a field also known as continuing medical education (CME). MOOCs, The New OPM?

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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. It is a powerful way to educate and train yourself or others.

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The Shake Up Learning Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2022

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. And think about using it for your adult organizations as well like church groups, alumni associations, intramural teams, and philanthropic organizations. Google Educator Groups (GEGs).

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Until lately, those online MIT courses have somewhat resembled so-called massive open online courses, or MOOCs, says Clara Piloto, director of global programs at MIT Professional Education. Now, as MOOCs have evolved to court professional audiences , so too have MIT’s efforts to harness companies and organizations.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2017

EdSurge talked with Rick Levin, CEO of Coursera (and former president of one of those big-name universities, Yale) about how the mega-courses known as MOOCs have changed in the five years since the start of their hype-filled debut. It has been five year since Coursera launched its first MOOCs. How’s that going?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Still, advocates leading different but related efforts to make higher education and workforce training programs better for participants and employers have different ideas about what transparency really looks like when it comes to credentials. New to the research this year is a count of how many groups in the U.S.

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EdTech4Beginners

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

When people talk about the future of technology in education, they picture every student having access to a computer or a tablet; they see paperless rooms where technology trained teachers lead the class. The appearance of massive open online courses (MOOCs) mean that it’s possible to study film-making online among other niche topics.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Join me today, Wednesday, September 26th, for a one-hour live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar on the "true history" of the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) with Dave Cormier, Alec Couros, Stephen Downes, Rita Kop, Inge de Waard, and Carol Yeager. His educational journey started in 1998 teaching little children to speak English.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2023

Today’s online courses are evolved cousins of the early MOOC, or massive open online course. Some are trying higher ed for the first time, while others tried college before but didn’t complete it, and still others have advanced degrees but want training in a specific skill or subject. The year of the MOOC may be long over.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2019

The university is working with a group called the Empirical Educator Project , run by the popular education blog e-Literate , which today announced it will run a series of hackathons over the next year at colleges that are part of its group. The group is calling it the EDwhy initiative, in which the ED stands for educational design.

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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

OCTOBER 16, 2018

At the time they were not alone in their efforts; Coursera, Udacity (both of which were also co-founded by Stanford professors) and edX had launched MOOC platforms a year earlier. NovoEd has tried to differentiate itself from the crowd by designing its platform to facilitate small-group interactions and project-based assignments.

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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

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Just as formal education systems made a dramatic shift to digital since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, on-the-job training is changing as well. The same forces that transformed classrooms have accelerated the adoption of more digital learning in workplace training—advancing a trend that was already underway.

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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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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. Some groups call themselves “learning DAOs,” organized to educate members of their communities. That would be the block chain. That includes higher education. And what are they learning about?

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Linways Technologies

APRIL 22, 2020

Some of them are developing their own courses to train workers in the skills the company needs. Data-Driven Results As an institution, the way you treat education and manage it is different from MOOCs or short-term online courses. Employers are also taking new approaches to acquiring the needed set of job skills.

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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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TeacherCast

JUNE 20, 2015

He has lead technology groups and provided considerable training and support as they implemented a 1:1 environment. Kurt is also part of EdTech Sages , LLC, an educational technology training and consulting group. Mapping with google mooc https://mapping.withgoogle.com/. Show Information. Google My Maps [link].

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2019

Andela, the New York-based company that trains programmers in developing countries, raised $100 million in a Series D round. Looking at the top 10 deals so far in 2019, companies focused on workforce training dominated investor interest. Revature, a technology skills-training company, sold to Investcorp for an undisclosed price.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2017

A few years ago, there was all this attention to MOOCs, and Michigan was a leader in that. Where do you see MOOCs fitting in now? The whole MOOC craze was just fascinating to me. Or, putting together a group of 10 students from different backgrounds with a professor, discussing an interesting and challenging topic.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2021

But leaders of a new platform called Unmudl say the time is right for community colleges to collaborate and make their workforce-training programs available more widely by marketing them through a shared website. All of the classes offer skills training explicitly linked to employment.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2020

in February, rising across all groups of workers - with workers with l ower levels of educational attainment the most vulnerable to job loss. Likewise, employer spending on training—which often includes university-provided offerings— tends to decline in recessions. The national unemployment rate jumped to 4.4%, up from 3.5%

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 2, 2017

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. And think about using it for your adult organizations as well like church groups, alumni associations, intramural teams, and philanthropic organizations. Google Educator Groups (GEGs).

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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 12, 2018

The trained programmer knew there had to be a more efficient way. 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.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s news about sketchy virtual schools in the “state/local politics” section above and about K12 Inc specifically in the “job training” section below. The Business of Job Training (and Educational Benefits for Employees). ” Oh.

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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

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

It’s worth reexamining how we’re recreating these educational walled gardens online—as we move from the heyday of MOOCs in 2012 to the gradual decline of open access courseware in 2017. These are the resources that are typically still free like MOOCs, Khan Academy videos, TED videos, and some adaptive learning platforms.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Teaching at colleges is often done without any formal training. 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. And the approach produced graduates who vastly outperformed cohorts trained using traditional methods.

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Edsurge

MAY 15, 2018

The group has an ambitious goal to increase the number of Americans with some kind of high-quality credential. They are not always accessible to those people that have no training, and no education, and have low resources to even pay for them. Part of the problem with MOOCs was it was the same delivery method.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JANUARY 30, 2018

Ask me about training your teachers, ShellyTerrell@gmail.com ! We will share and meet regularly on our Facebook group, Twitter (#EduGoalsMOOC), and through weekly live events (expert panels on Google Hangouts). Get your copy of Hacking Digital Learning , The 30 Goals Challenge , or Learning to Go.

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EdTechTeam

NOVEMBER 4, 2017

Being an educational technology trainer and an educator for more than a decade, I have had a fair share of training and professional development sessions both on giving and receiving end. Recently, I found myself sitting in a conference room along with 200+ educators for one day workshop.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

And then there were MOOCs , of course, and all those predictions and all those promises about the end of college as we know it: “MOOCs make education borderless, gender-blind, race-blind, class-blind and bank account-blind” and similar fables. Vive la MOOC Révolution. Adam Medros became edX’s president and COO.

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The Principal of Change

APRIL 4, 2018

As preservice teachers, we are trained to think deeply about our emerging and improving practice, all with the expectation that the emphasis on that act will not only become habit, but also will serve as a continuous springboard for growth and change; the intention is not simply to think about it, but also to act on it.

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