Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Research studies don’t provide strong evidence that synchronous learning universally leads to better student engagement and learning outcomes than asynchronous learning or vice versa. For example, most of the enrolled students in fully asynchronous MOOCs are adults, and even in this context, completion can be challenging.

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2018

The MOOC is an extension of the on-campus course—it was really just making our on-campus experience public and open for anyone to follow,” says Barba. A group of biology researchers from the University of Washington have tested Barba’s theory that active learning improves outcomes for STEM students in particular.

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Linways Technologies

JANUARY 6, 2023

What can be done to accommodate all types of students with outcome-based education and Bloom’s taxonomy? In the absence of a clear mapping between program outcomes and assessment tools, student achievement of program outcomes is inaccurate and unreliable. Every time we interact with them, we learn something new.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Its answer: one that offers evidence of competencies and corresponds clearly with positive employment outcomes in fields that have substantial job opportunities. But the studies differ in their approaches to analyzing the myriad options.

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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. We often ask students to write an essay of 3,000 words on a topic, and it must have six learning outcomes ,” he said. “So

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Linways Technologies

MARCH 31, 2020

Technological storms have driven the world in such a way that extensive collection of study materials on diverse courses are easily available at our fingertips. This sets institutional education apart from the MOOCs, or online course delivery tools. But why do we still rely on schools or colleges to pursue our education?

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Course System MOOC Assessment 111

Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

Some new services and platforms will emerge to cater for different forms of learning, MOOCs will evolve and improve and open badges will be hot. The MOOC backlash. Of course I have to start with MOOCs. The MOOC backlash started in earnest in 2013. MOOC providers will keep on refining them. Introduction.

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Wired Campus

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

When Coursera, Udacity, and edX started up within four months of one another, in 2012, The New York Times declared it the year of the MOOC. Published in the Harvard Business Review, it is the first study of Coursera students’ self-reported learning outcomes. But intuition is one thing, and data are another.”.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Without imposed schedules, proximity to peers, or physical classrooms, even the best-intentioned students never make it through a MOOC or fail to reengage with the educational app they downloaded. How can you make the desired outcomes the default options? Instead of telling a student: “Use this flashcard app to study on your own time!”

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Tom Murray

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Many of the organizations, which are listed alphabetically, have free tools, research, case studies, and resources that can seamlessly be utilized and implemented at the district and school levels. All of these organizations are shifting the needle and working diligently to support school leaders nationwide.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

This approach helps you clarify your target outcomes and how you’ll collect “evidence of learning.” Lesson 4: Go study other great teachers and other great learning experiences. Once you’ve read Papert, use the Understanding By Design Framework to structure your curriculum.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2018

Those selective schools, which frankly most of the listeners of this podcast will have attended, need to be treated differently because the reality is that the outcomes from those schools are much better than the outcomes we’re seeing from the other 3,800 schools. I think that’s the factor that leads to economic outcomes.

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Wired Campus

APRIL 23, 2015

That’s the takeaway from a new study, which found that limiting distractions can help students perform better and also improve course completion. A paper describing the study, “Can Behavioral Tools Improve Online Student Outcomes? MOOCs Online Courses'

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

What does personalized learning mean to the perennial tug-of-war over content — in higher education’s “great books” debate over whether students should absorb the Western canon or study what they want, and, at the K-12 level, over the Common Core? Is sameness the key to equal opportunity? That is harder to answer.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2021

Ositelu, a senior policy analyst for New America who has studied short-term credentials , expressed “caution and concern” about the promises made by the platform. But not everyone is optimistic that the platform’s short courses are a sure way to improve people’s employment prospects.

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Learning with 'e's

JUNE 11, 2015

A professor of educational technology at the British Open University, he has been an advocate of openness in education for many years, but he expresses doubts over the outcome of the battle. As with the green movement, openness now has a market value and is subject to new tensions, such as venture capitalists funding MOOC companies.

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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. That’s his explanation for how he thinks about the role of education in the 21st century.

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Digital Learning Technology MOOC Learning Analytics 60

Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

Some new services and platforms will emerge to cater for different forms of learning, MOOCs will evolve and improve and open badges will be hot. The MOOC backlash. Of course I have to start with MOOCs. The MOOC backlash started in earnest in 2013. MOOC providers will keep on refining them. Introduction.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 2, 2016

PrepFlash takes some of the tediousness out of studying by writing flashcards for learners. Sutori] appealed to me from the very beginning… I studied literature in college, and had I had a tool like this, it would have changed the way I learned.” Based in Honolulu, Hawaii, Comprend.io prices on a by-school or company basis.

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Learning with 'e's

MAY 2, 2019

I was studying at college and a man in a white coat wheeled a television and video player into the room. Such as question is difficult to address because 'the future' can be quite nebulous, and predictions are often inaccurate due to unexpected events and unforeseen outcomes. So what will educational video look like in the future?

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Perry Hewitt

APRIL 15, 2018

Students attending university have been focused on concrete, measurable outcomes: final grades and university acceptances. Media interest in formalized online learning, or “peak MOOC,” occurred in about 2012, and with it the mandate that everyone must learn to code. patterns that apply to corporate campuses as well as college ones.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

One recent study found “widespread acceptance of alternative credentialing programs at American colleges and universities.” Panelists in this discussion will discuss the study’s findings and the evolving attitudes towards alternative credentials in the workforce. Will VR Really Impact Student Outcomes? 2:00 p.m.

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Learning with 'e's

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Self regulation has been shown to enhance and improve learning outcomes (Paris & Byrnes, 1989; Steffens, 2008), enabling learners to achieve their full potential (Delfino et al , 2008). A number of collaborative and social networking tools regularly play a role within the average student PLE.

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Edsurge

JULY 23, 2021

I was among those who argued that if students receive the same education from the same faculty, leading—more or less—to the same outcomes, tuition should be the same for both. Since then, MOOC degrees have mushroomed , now with more than 70 others available in partnership with about 30 first-class universities worldwide.

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2019

It’s common these days to hear that free online mega-courses, called MOOCs, failed to deliver on their promise of educating the masses. But one outcome of that push towards open online courses was plenty of high-quality teaching material. Most MOOCs require users to sign up for them before they can even see what the course consists of.

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Learning with 'e's

DECEMBER 7, 2015

There is a wealth of evidence that indicates technology can make a positive impact on learning outcomes. A research study at Durham University in the North East of England suggests that multi-touch, multi-user surfaces can improve the learning of mathematics.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

I spoke tonight in Dorothy Kim's class "Race Before Race: Premodern Critical Race Studies." I have volunteered to be a guest speaker in classes this Fall. It's really the least I can do to help teachers and students through another tough term. Here's a bit of what I said. Thank you for inviting me to speak to your class this evening.

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Inside Higher Ed : “Analysis of Georgia Tech ’s MOOC-inspired online master’s in computer science suggests that institutions can successfully deliver high-quality, low-cost degrees to students at scale.” “Many are never the same.”

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Edsurge

MAY 31, 2022

Just look at Fiveable, who’s helping students across the world create communities with virtual study rooms, or Aktiv Learning, who’s improving outcomes in STEM courses for university students. Right now, actually, I’m thinking about how we can improve completion rates for MOOCs and online courses.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Project-based learning in social studies (using Ebay to teach economics) and science (collaborative efforts with the local police and fire departments to teach physical science concepts) will be highlighted. Participants will also hear about an award winning school blog that is maintained by Journalism students. What is Digital Leadership?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2020

As it turns out, the share of American higher ed enrollment that is made up of adults or those who study part-time peaked in the early 1990s at 44 percent of all higher ed enrollment. As more colleges face the reality of a declining traditional student population, there’s a common belief that adult students are where the growth is.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

ABL pedagogy aims to enrich students’ academic experience and learning outcomes by connecting theory with practice, and concepts with methods, using data and insight they obtain through engagement with the larger world.” The study of teaching adults. ” (1). An initialism that stands for “Bring Your Own Device.”

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ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 1, 2019

Pupils can continue their studies away from the classroom using the environment too. In order to reduce the amount of new content a teacher needs to make, YouTube videos, MOOC s, multiple choice questions and web-based resources can be combined. What are some of the challenges faced with blended learning?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

” You’ll often hear its advocates invoke Benjamin Bloom’s 1984 study on “ the 2 Sigma Problem ” and claim that one-on-one tutoring is radically effective at improving student outcomes. ” (Its MOOC competitor edX also announced this year that many of its courses would no longer be free.)

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Edsurge

APRIL 6, 2017

We have wonderful case studies of innovation, but when you remove the novelty after time the impact isn’t the same. An example he points to is the way his university approaches MOOCs. Our investment in MOOCs has nothing to do with branding or trying to generate a pipeline of students.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

I want to talk briefly about Folklore Studies here not so much to tout my academic qualifications to speak to you here today about monsters – quite the opposite really. Folklore Studies, for its part, did a bit of both. I want to touch on the monstrosity of academic disciplines. ” – Thomas Edison, 1922.

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ViewSonic Education

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Fortunately, there is a vast amount of content already available, such as YouTube videos, MOOCs, multiple choice questions and web-based resources. Outcomes from the activities can be shared by pupils from their own device using myViewBoard, or a selection of questions compiled using collaborative tools.

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