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Massive Study of Online Teaching Ends With Surprising — and ‘Deflating’ — Result

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The study, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences, was meant to show that small behavioral interventions, like asking students in a pre-course survey to describe when and how they planned to fit the required course work into their lives, would significantly improve completion rates in large online classes.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Walden University researcher, Rose Arnell, is looking for survey participants : I am a doctoral student at Walden University and am conducting a study called, Teacher Beliefs on Self-Learning, Collaboration, and Participation in Virtual Communities of Practice. Learn more or register here and see my notes at the bottom of this post!

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Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). In related MOOC news, there's more on “ nanodegrees ” in the “credentialing” section below. The ALA has released library privacy guidelines for students in K–12 schools. But how do they compare to the old one and the ACT ?”

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Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Online education pioneer Tony Bates asks “ What is online learning ?” ” From the press release : “ MOOCs and books initiative launched by Springer and Federica Weblearning.” a month.). .” No neoliberalism anywhere in ed-tech. ” Nope.

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Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via George Veletsianos : “A large-scale study of Twitter Use in MOOCs.” ” Research finds there’s a " global achievement gap in MOOCs. Via Campus Technology : “ Harvard Tailoring the MOOC Experience With Adaptive Learning.”

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Via The New York Times : “ Trump Drops Defense of Obama Guidelines on Transgender Students.” ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “Should Online Courses Go Through ‘Beta Testing’?” NPR on MOOC Micromasters. ” More via WaPo and Buzzfeed. Disclosure alert.).

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Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). of Maryland Removes ‘Misogynistic’ Guidelines for TAs.” ” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. There’s coding bootcamp news in the venture capital section below. And some follow-up from Tressie McMillan Cottom.).