Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2023

What would you do if you had $800 million to build a new nonprofit to support innovation in online learning? The $800 million underpinning the effort derived from a controversial decision by the two universities in 2021 to sell their edX online learning platform to 2U. The idea is to be a catalyst within this ecosystem,” she said.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Students all over the world have access to knowledge, resources, and experts to help them learn in rich ways and accomplish great things. In my book, Hacking Digital Learning Strategies with EdTech Missions , I introduce mission minded learning. Technology is a huge part of our students’ lives.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

In my book, Hacking Digital Learning Strategies with EdTech Missions , I introduce mission minded learning to help students reflect on the power they have to make a positive difference with their use of technology. Get your copy of Hacking Digital Learning , The 30 Goals Challenge , or Learning to Go.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

There’s an old adage that says “if a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.”. In this video, Constance Seibert shares how the Learning Differences MOOC-Ed hosted by the Friday Institute helped her better understand the different ways her students learn.

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2020

With some schools already announcing they will not reopen normally in the fall, and many others considering their options , educators are hoping to take advantage of the summer to improve on this spring’s sink-or-swim plunge into distance learning. For many, the recent leap to remote instruction felt rushed, chaotic and disorganized.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

From the very start of digital education, the big question has always been: ”How can students learn effectively, if they’re not face-to-face with their instructors?” Most authoring software also integrates assessment tools, testing learning outcomes.

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Neo LMS

MAY 21, 2020

Embraced by some, considered by others only a back-up solution during these exceptional times brought by the global pandemic — that forced many universities across the globe to carry on their activities remotely — online learning has, in fact, its pedagogical consistency and social relevance. Highlight a gap. Let’s take online classes.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2021

It was 2012, and online learning was suddenly booming. It has the most users of any provider of MOOCs (as the large-scale online courses are sometimes called), claiming more than 77 million learners. Dhawal Shaw, founder of MOOC-discovery platform Class Central. Downsides of Openness?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 6, 2020

If you doubt that, read the quote below from a Harvard professor about the half-life of learned skills. Learn how to learn. According to research published in the Instructional Science journal, individual students experience a broad variety of differentiation in their understanding of how to undertake the learning process.

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Linways Technologies

APRIL 28, 2020

The Discuss Education BarCamp was a gathering of educators, academicians, and education enthusiasts to discuss about teaching-learning, learning theories, and ways to improve learning. He spoke on assessment strategies in the Outcome-Based Education (OBE) framework. After that introduction, he moved on to the core topic.

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EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 7, 2018

E-learning has seen a broad positive shift in the last couple of years. The new E-learning technologies keep on evolving, and a lot of companies are investing in it to yield efficient employees. Let’s take a look at the some of the innovation in E-learning industry in the last 10 years: The Usage of Smartphones.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 13, 2017

YouthBuild USA , a Digital Promise Adult Learning Beacon , is an international intermediary for a network of 250 community-based YouthBuild programs and schools around the country. UDL’s guiding principles are: All people learn differently; The emotion behind learning is as important as the learning; and.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2019

The department is hiring for more than a dozen new designer, developer and strategy jobs, including for an associate director for media technology and innovation. We’ve had a lot of success in the open-learning space, driving a fair amount of this growth,” he says.

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Linways Technologies

JANUARY 6, 2023

Every time we interact with them, we learn something new. To do so, they need to have a proper assessment strategy in place. It is time to focus on both skill-based learning and lifelong learning. Additionally, Bloom’s taxonomy can be used to create learning objectives aligned with the course’s outcomes.

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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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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 11, 2017

While many districts, schools, and educators understand the need to shift to a culture of personalized learning, many others still struggle to transition fully from the one-size-fits-all approach and truly change instruction. Auditory Processing. Inhibition.

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2022

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. Completely free. link] — Austen Allred (@Austen) May 26, 2022.

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The PL2C Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

While we all have different strengths and weaknesses in our learning, schools traditionally approach student learning with a one-size-fits-all mentality and have struggled to adapt to changing student needs. The Friday Institute and Oak Foundation seek to end this anachronism with the Learning Differences MOOC for Educators (MOOC-Ed).

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2019

MOOCs, shorthand for massive open online courses, have been widely critiqued for their miniscule completion rates. This does not necessarily make MOOCs a failure. That’s a far cry from five years ago, when only 5 percent of the students were finishing the MOOCs I was designing. Combine synchronous and asynchronous learning.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 5, 2021

What Is An Asynchronous Learning Community? What Is Asynchronous Learning? An Asynchronous Learning Community is one where students learn together bound by some component–often a goal, topic, or learning space–rather than time (i.e., The Requirements Of An Effective Asynchronous Learning Community.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JULY 28, 2017

Plus, the best kind of learning is when we meet the unexpected. Get your copy of The 30 Goals for Teachers or Learning to Go. I actually did this for one of my Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). Think of it as a map of the learning adventure in your classroom and each assignment is a link to a new path of exploration.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 8, 2016

The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation at North Carolina State University recently scaled access to professional learning content for educators by taking advantage of the Massive Open Online Courses for Educators (MOOC-Eds) format. There are people literally from the other side of the world in our MOOC-Eds.

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2018

Faculty assign homework to expose students to a new concept before they arrive to class, and use class time to ask questions and do more-active learning. They come primed to discuss those things and learn in classroom,” says Barba. “We But a lot of learning happens because of the fact that we all make mistakes.”

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Edsurge

JULY 23, 2021

Even though the cost of delivering online courses was then far less than on campus, we worried that if colleges set a lower price for remote instruction, students and their families might get the wrong impression, with lower prices signaling that digital learning was less valuable.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2020

But one particularly promising solution to engaging adult learners and increasing degree attainment is to more intentionally integrate learning and work. Working adults are self-directed, bring experience into the classroom and prefer learning that is practical and problem-centered.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2020

With an uncertain fall and a deep economic downturn, many believe two-year colleges may be the best answer to meeting the higher education needs of both traditional and non-traditional students and workers looking to learn new skills. More broadly, it is an era of surging demand for online postsecondary learning.

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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? What is blended learning?

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2019

In the job market and among professionals, demand for credentials and learning beyond the bachelor’s degree is strong. The master’s degree market is also a hotbed of innovation, as some of the world’s top universities are now experimenting with MOOC-based degrees at substantially lower price points.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

There’s a budding field called the science of teaching and learning, where scholars are figuring out what works when it comes to educating students. A new book, “ Learning Innovation and the Future of Higher Education ,” looks at how to create systems that apply the science of learning into actual teaching.

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EdTechnocation.com

MARCH 19, 2014

Last week, the MOOC-Ed, Coaching Digital Learning: Cultivating a Culture of Change , began. What are the most Effective Coaching Strategies and the what are the Biggest Challenges ? What strategies have you found effective in your coaching? Use it, make mistakes with it, learn from it, and become comfortable with it!

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

And it was just a few years after the launch of the first MOOCs, putting the online higher ed market newly in the spotlight as it continued its steady growth. That’s not at all meant to suggest that colleges’ strategies, offerings and value are perfect, however.

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Educator Innovator

MAY 12, 2014

TeachDoNow is a free, collaborative learning experience offered by KQED this summer in partnership with Educator Innovator and the National Writing Project. All are welcome to participate at the level and to the extent that make sense for their own individual learning goals, but we encourage a deep dive.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The same forces that transformed classrooms have accelerated the adoption of more digital learning in workplace training—advancing a trend that was already underway. These dynamics are at the center of what my colleagues and I have been studying in our recent research with employers exploring this new landscape for workplace learning.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2017

Coursera is quietly testing elements of a new strategy, with the goal of moving from a platform for courses to a broader career-building service. It’s part of a continued evolution of MOOCs, or Massive Open Online Courses. and presents a menu of options including “advance my career,” “start a new career,” or “learn for fun.”

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EdTechnocation.com

APRIL 18, 2014

In Unit 4 of the Coaching Digital Learning MOOC-Ed , we learned about the 4 Cs of Digital Age skills: Communication, Collaboration, Critical Thinking, and Creativity. What benefits for student learning do you see in integrating communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity into your school culture?

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Graphite Blog

JULY 16, 2020

With so much uncertainty about the 2020–2021 school year due to the coronavirus pandemic, one fact remains: The skills and resources that reflective, dedicated teachers need to navigate remote, hybrid, and face-to-face learning environments are plentiful -- and ever evolving. " A bonus?

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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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