EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2018

I decided to base my doctoral thesis on them: “ Tinkering in K–12: An Exploratory Mixed Methods Study of Makerspaces in Schools as an Application of Constructivist Learning.”. Offer a book study on Invent to Learn (the authors have created a study guide). by Ashley Cross.

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Mark Smithers

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Thanks to Kate Bowles ( @KateMfD ) for sending me a link to an open Coursesites web site (free registration) that has been created for the MOOC discussion at the forthcoming Universities Australia 2014 conference. There are six questions in the discussion area; these are: What have been the most significant impacts of MOOCs?

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2023

The next decade could belong to the nontraditional, online learner — but only if the companies and universities that offer remote courses figure out how to ferry such students across the river of distraction and land them safely on the far shore equipped with skills and credentials. Demand is out there. It creates a cadence.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2022

Young The MOOC giant was valued at more than $3.6 How Remote Learning Subverts Power and Privilege in Higher Education. Young Research into how to hold students’ attention in online courses. How Is It Doing? Young This analysis of a major MOOC provider proved prescient; the nonprofit was purchased later in the year.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2021

A decade ago, large-scale online courses known as MOOCs were all the rage, touted as a possible alternative to traditional college and celebrated in the popular press. He’s Robert Talbert, a math professor at Grand Valley State University in Michigan, and he’s someone who spent a lot of time thinking about how to improve college teaching.

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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. I think we’ve seen this reemergence—unintentionally—in the form of MOOCs. In creating online learning platforms, we scaled the equivalent of open schools without first learning how to build classrooms.

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2020

One source for insights on how to proceed is the cross-pollination that takes place when educators working in separate spheres learn from one another. Much of this reflection is likely to take place within the often siloed communities of practice in K-12 and higher education.

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Mark Smithers

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Thanks to Kate Bowles ( @KateMfD ) for sending me a link to an open Coursesites web site (free registration) that has been created for the MOOC discussion at the forthcoming Universities Australia 2014 conference. There are six questions in the discussion area; these are: What have been the most significant impacts of MOOCs?

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eSchool News

APRIL 21, 2017

From MOOCs to digital study aids to virtual tutoring, there are many ways for students to hone their academic skills while still maintaining flexibility in their schedules. The key is in knowing how to use these resources to their advantage. Participate in a MOOC that covers a subject/skill he or she is lacking.

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EdTech4Beginners

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The appearance of massive open online courses (MOOCs) mean that it’s possible to study film-making online among other niche topics. Many schools are opting to have students on campus but also a wide array of international students who study online and attend virtual classrooms to interact with their peers. Open Ended Education.

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 27, 2016

The three biggest reasons pre-K-12 educators took online professional development courses in the past year were to learn how to use digital devices, how to use the educational software that goes on them, or to find out more about classroom behavior or management, according to a new study. Online PD Course Findings.

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Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2021

The following is an edited excerpt from Staying Online: How to Navigate Digital Higher Education , forthcoming from Routledge. The impulse—to mimic conventional classrooms online as closely as possible—was followed earlier by MOOCs, massive online learning courses.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2020

The initiative aims to study whether and how decentralized digital ledgers can give students and workers more control over their academic and job records and improve the flow of data among schools, colleges and employers, leaders told EdSurge in February. Department of Education.

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MindShift

APRIL 25, 2016

Some studies found that about five percent of those enrolled in massive open online courses (known as MOOCs) completed the course. Learning Circles introduced her to MOOCs for the first time, and she appreciated the feedback from her peers and facilitators in a small group setting.

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The Thinking Stick

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

History teachers… as part of their program should be required to know how to use all the amazing layers found in Google Earth. Math teachers should know about things like PhotoMath and how you could leverage this in the classroom. Or how about just on an professional level. How to respond to an upset student over email.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 8, 2012

Other research interests include: theory of information, models of reasoning, applications of mathematical techniques in the study of communication, and mathematical cognition. He also works on the design of information/reasoning systems for intelligence analysis. He has written 31 books and over 80 published research articles.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

If you work in education in 2020, you are making tough decisions about how to best reach and teach your learners in the midst of a global pandemic. There is a dearth of evidence to help teachers make informed choices on how to allocate time to asynchronous vs. synchronous online learning.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2018

He specifically faults measures such as the National Student Survey , a satisfaction poll administered to undergraduates during their final year of study in colleges throughout England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Meanwhile, for institutions not in a crisis, the question is how to encourage innovation when things seem to be going just fine.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

After choosing Minecraft as an in-class resource, I found that not everyone knew how to play—including me! Many students go on to create such guides themselves, learning how to edit wikis and take screenshots, or capture, narrate and edit in-game footage in the process. Minecraft MOOC EVO Minecraft MOOC YouTube.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2017

From Khan Academy to massive open online courses (better known as MOOCs), digital instructional content is often delivered as videos. In their study, 104 Australian male and female students in both STEM and non-STEM fields had to remember the type, color and position of 12 abstract symbols placed on rectangular frame on a laptop monitor.

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Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2017

These MOOCs are free. Well people say, “But the MOOCs aren’t very successful, most people drop out.” And who does best at MOOCs? One of my cuckoo ideas is that maybe we should require all seniors to pass a MOOC before they graduate. You’re going to have to learn how to learn content on your own, which you can do at home.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

But the studies differ in their approaches to analyzing the myriad options. We haven’t had the ability to look across all credentials to allow us to have some sense of how to make the best determination of quality,” Cheney says.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MARCH 10, 2018

We invited two incredible leaders in education to be our guest experts for the chat, Dr. Lynell Powell ( @DrJoy77 ), assistant principal and host of the Dr. Joy Radio Show and Marisa Constantinides ( @Marisa_C ), Director of Studies of CELT Athens (where I received my CELTA) and author of TEFL Matters. How to Become an Outstanding Teacher !

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Edsurge

JANUARY 29, 2019

He made the move to his new phase of scholarly life during a rush of enthusiasm for so-called MOOCs, Massive Open Online Courses, that big-name colleges were starting to offer low-cost higher education to a wider audience. You could take workshops on how to use audio and video. It looked like there was going to be a big realignment.

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techieMusings

MAY 19, 2016

Sophomores have the opportunity to spend a period of their day learning through a MOOC of their choosing. Their MOOC worktime is an assigned period within their school day. When students are in their MOOC course, they all report to the open learning space, as in the pictures below. Math Rotation Model.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Avida is the husband of Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller, and one of the first board members of the company that helped put the spotlight on massive online open courses, or MOOCs. Congregate, built by a Harvard student, is also trying to recreate the group-study feeling through virtual tables and classrooms.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

If they are right, it would mean short-circuiting the famous “10,000-hour rule” based on studies by education researcher Anders Ericsson and popularized by bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell in his book “Outliers.” The digital tutor asks questions or gives nudges depending on how close the student is to completing the task correctly.

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Edsurge

MAY 29, 2018

I didn't have any connections who could tell me how to be a professor or what I needed to do to prepare. When I joined Ashford, the MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) had just started and it was quite an interesting movement. Dr. Jongbok Byun How does online learning benefit students?

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Edsurge

MAY 14, 2017

At the time, I’d been hearing about what Khan was doing and suddenly I realized there’s a fundamental divide between how we’ve traditionally taught medical school and how the next generation is wired to learn.” Students find us when they’re studying for their economics courses,” says Hardgrave.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2017

Harvard reportedly spends $75,000-$150,000 building each new MOOC, most of which goes towards video production costs. Studies by Derek Muller have shown that while videos that explain physics concepts clearly are often positively received by students, tests show they don’t necessarily lead to durable learning. Cognotion has raised $4.4

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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2022

Blockchain credentials are currently “a solution in search of a problem,” says Kevin Werbach, a professor of legal studies and business ethics at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. “If They’re communities of people who share a pot of cryptocurrency and who decide by voting how to spend that money—kind of like a co-op.

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2018

And I remember one of the MOOC founders who said five years later, well MOOCs have failed as an educational experiment. Because you’ve got all these resources around, but you don’t know how to organize them. And I can choose my setting—group study or independent study, or this or that. And I go out from there.

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Hack Education

JULY 7, 2017

” Some of these experimental sites included MOOCs and coding bootcamps. ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Class Central’s Dhawal Shah, writing in Edsurge : “ MOOCs Find Their Audience: Professional Learners and Universities.” State and Local) Education Politics.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

As an instructional designer who has been building MOOCs for the past five years, I’ve been asked this question more times than I count. MOOCs have been called abysmal , disappointing failures. The average completion rate for MOOCs (including the ones I design) hovers between 5-15 percent. This skepticism is not unwarranted.

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 2, 2017

How to Manage Multiple 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. Book Study/Lit Circles. Certification Study Groups. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). 20 NEW Ways to Use Google Classroom.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 9, 2015

A Beginner’s Guide to Writing in English for University Study. IOC Athlete MOOC via Independent. College Readiness Math MOOC. iTDI Summer School MOOC For English Teachers. Learn How to Play Chess. Get Organized: How to be a Together Teacher. Commonwealth Education Trust via Coursera. via Canvas.net.

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The Principal of Change

MARCH 20, 2018

I was pleased to read this quote from a recent article, “ Google spent years studying effective teams — and one trait stood out ,” which stated what was most important to the success of teams: What mattered most: Trust. September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon! It was psychological safety.

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