EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 11, 2017

51Talk (or “China Online Education Group”), China’s leading online education platform and the first from China listed on the NYSE (NYSE: COE), was invited to attend the summit alongside education industry leaders such as Pearson, Amazon, and YouTube.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

More than two decades ago, when I was hired at Stevens Institute of Technology, as dean of web-based distance learning—a quaint title for what is now known as online learning—few tools were available to help faculty migrate their on-campus courses online. Most authoring software also integrates assessment tools, testing learning outcomes.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

And in the past ten years these colleges have been active in offering so-called MOOCs, or massive open online courses, which are free or low-cost courses, usually for no official credit. Ivy League colleges now offer more than 450 of these courses. And some Ivies offer graduate certificate programs online.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2020

Blockchain technology first appeared as part of cyber currencies like Bitcoin, but a range of industries are now experimenting with the approach, which involves making digital transactions public and permanent in a way that is very difficult to tamper with or counterfeit. The San Jose State University School of Information is finding out.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2021

million Series A that will expand its range of intensive executive-level courses and digital learning tools. While at edX Porter created the Open edX project, which has served more than 55 million learners taking massive open online courses, or MOOCs. Video content features bitesize contributions from industry experts.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2019

There was also plenty of rain in the education technology industry, where venture capitalists and private-equity investors unleashed a deluge of cash. And that dip in dealflow has been happening in recent years: Investors are pouring more money into the edtech industry, but across fewer companies. For many U.S. Last year, U.S.

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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. The platform also offers collaborative tools so teams of students can work together on projects. The pair then started the company in January 2013.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2020

In a national survey , we found that providing academic credit for experience and on-the-job learning was among employers’ top priorities for colleges and universities, alongside other work-integrated learning themes such industry validation and including real-world projects in the curriculum. And that has immense societal benefits.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 18, 2016

Initially, it was dedicated to the gaming industry, but now it has extended to other industries and we cannot ignore its uses in education. It’s a great tool to engage students and its benefits are far more numerous than its shortcomings. So why not combine an amazing tool into a system that is used by students daily?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2019

This week’s podcast is brought to you by UNC Chapel Hill’s Master of Arts in Educational Innovation, Technology, and Entrepreneurship Program, known as the MEITE Program : MEITE is for students pursuing careers in the educational technology industry. Learn more at ed.unc.edu/meite, on IG @UNCmeite , and Twitter @unc_Meite.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The primary trends identified by the team were: adaptive learning, open education resources (OER), gamification and game-based learning, MOOCs, LMS and interoperability, mobile devices, and design. As the conversation continued, Joosten discussed the importance of design in online course development, a primary finding in the scan.

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ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 1, 2019

Over the past few years the education industry has been experiencing a shift away traditional learning environments. One of these practices is known as blended learning and the term that has been garnering some attention within the education industry as of late. But, what is blended learning? Make content engaging for pupils.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Now, a couple with similar industry cred has a similar vision—along with plenty of funding. “We 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. But they are not done with higher education yet.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2018

But students are now pushing back on these generational generalizations—especially the assumption that they’re all “digital natives” who can wield any tech tool with ease. More Colleges Are Offering Microcredentials—And Developing Them The Way Businesses Make New Products A few years ago elite universities were frantically jumping into MOOCs.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

We could participate in a number of free Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs), including over a dozen on Chinese History from Harvard University. Additionally, we could make our own sets related to local class topics and presentations using a friendly curation tool like Educlipper. . My class would be in YouTube heaven.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Different industries have contributed to the trend. All of these developments are helpfully disrupting the for-profit college industry that preyed upon low-income students for far too long. 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

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

can’t just say, “Here’s a MOOC, or here’s an online degree, or a 6- to 12-week immersive bootcamp.”. We need better assessment tools and prior learning assessments to take any student and assess where they are: What capabilities, skill sets, and mindsets do they have? We have to do better.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. Affluent students get to digital tools for creative exploration; poor students get to use theirs for test prep.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

The Future of Learning: Convergence of VR, AR, & AI : Treating future technologies as complementary, rather than separate, tools is the best path toward immersive learning. The Evolution of MOOCs: Six Years Later : Are MOOCs still around? Higher Ed 11:00 a.m. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7 K-12 11:00 a.m. 5:00 p.m.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2019

education technology industry appears on track to surpass the amount of investor funding tallied in recent years. For the first half of 2019, the industry saw $962 million raised across 65 deals, the highest amount of funding at the halfway mark since at least 2015.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

It's entertaining, I guess — the dinosaurs and the Neanderthals and the Industrial Revolution, and stuff like that. I talk a lot about the problems of industry when it comes to ed-tech — how venture capital and venture philanthropy have enormous influence on shaping the direction of education policy. Unfathomable. Impenetrable.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2016

radio and televisions in the early 20th century and online learning and MOOCs via the Internet in the early 21st century.) The triplet challenge for education technology is this: to ensure effective tools, equitable outcomes, and equilibrium between the producers and users of education technologies. Distance education took place via.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2018

On Monday, just days after the company quietly said it would be shutting down TenMarks’ online math and writing tools , it announced a partnership with Edhesive, a company that offers computer science curriculum to schools. Despite fits and starts, Amazon is marching forth with its K-12 education efforts.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2016

When Massive Open Online Courses (or MOOCs) were first introduced, people quickly realized these platforms could help students learn more effectively at their own pace on their own schedule. Every app or tool that a student uses must emphasize convenience and provide the highest level of flexibility, or it is quickly deleted.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2016

In general, the industries most responsive to these new developments are technology-based ones, usually with a young employee demographic. The report concludes that ‘companies are struggling to redesign the training environment, incorporate new learning technologies, and utilize the incredible array of digital learning tools now available’.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2017

Many of the new academic-innovation efforts at colleges started about three years ago, amid widespread hype around massive open online courses, or MOOCs. In industry, he adds, companies often set up innovation efforts that they later abandon. What I sense in this group is a lot of anxiety,” he says.

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Linways Technologies

JANUARY 6, 2023

In the absence of a clear mapping between program outcomes and assessment tools, student achievement of program outcomes is inaccurate and unreliable. Why it is important for success for students and for institutions The industry is more interested in professional skills than disciplinary knowledge. Both need to be addressed.

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Hack Education

APRIL 30, 2020

I don't want to come off today as making broad sweeping statements about all of education everywhere when I'm very much talking about the education system in the US and the education technology industry in the US. Tools have politics. Well-known names in the industry include ProctorU, Proctorio, Examity, Verificient.

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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

JANUARY 24, 2017

The tools of data analytics have developed to the point where we can now mine this data and learn from our past experiences how to do a better job teaching and how to tailor education to the individual. 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?

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 27, 2016

Nearly 60 percent of 589 preK-12 educators surveyed enrolled in professional courses online, according to a study by the Educational Technology Industry Network, a division of the Software & Information Industry Network. Most often selected tools used to teach the professional learning courses were: Videos: 76 percent.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

And as they revise, they can see how long learners spent looking at that passage and other details about how they moved through the digital tool, since every action leaves breadcrumbs to analyze. As a result, educators have been forced to rethink how they teach using digital instructional tools and practices.

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TeacherCast

JANUARY 1, 2016

It offers some innovative e-learning services for K-12, higher education and private industry. These venues range from MOOCs (free massive online open courses) to traditional brick-and-mortar public schools. Creative young learners now devise new inventions to solve problems using these 3D printing tools.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

He’s credited with co-teaching the first MOOC in 2008, introduced the theory of “connectivism”—the idea that knowledge is distributed across digital networks—and spearheaded research projects about the role of data and analytics in education. Rise of the robots Siemens has both an academic and an industry perspective on digital learning.

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Perry Hewitt

APRIL 15, 2018

The media covers innovation in selective ways: the latest dating app is going to get a lot more airtime than a transformative technology in the construction industry. But don’t let that drive you to chase the next media-friendly tool and dismiss the power of what you know. Enable and reward cross-disciplinary learning. Lumineye demo.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 9, 2015

Powerful Tools for Teaching and Learning: Web 2.0 Prior Learning Assessment for Educators and Industry. Instructional Ideas and Technology Tools for Online Success. IOC Athlete MOOC via Independent. College Readiness Math MOOC. iTDI Summer School MOOC For English Teachers. by Class Central. via CourseSites.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2020

Across industries, demand for talent was booming. MOOC catalog site Class Central has reported a 900 percent spike in traffic , and course enrollment has surged at Coursera. As 2020 kicked off, the U.S. job market was the strongest in 50 years , and the economy had seen a record 113-month streak of job creation.

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