A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 31, 2016

Learning has fundamentally changed with the evolution of the Internet and other technologies that allow for ubiquitous access to information and knowledge. Possibly one of the most important shifts needed in schools is to provide individualized and personalized learning experiences to students.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The report divides these credentials into 18 categories across four types of providers: postsecondary educational institutions, MOOC organizations, secondary schools and non-academic entities. New to the research this year is a count of how many groups in the U.S. provide credentials: 59,692.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2020

It was started by one of the co-founders of Blackboard, now a household name in education technology. 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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Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 29, 2015

What can we expect in 2016 from the intersection of technology and education? I’m building on previous posts about trends in technology and educational contexts , plus my FTTE report, naturally. Educational technology trends. And the MOOC numbers look like they’re rising. That should extend into 2016.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

Before joining JFF, Lexi spent nearly a decade in public service at the federal level, including working on Capitol Hill for six years, and serving as a policy advisor to the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education at the U.S. Department of Education. Listen to the conversation below, or read highlights below.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) Are any education technologies, for that matter? And accordingly, platforms are the underlying trend that ties together popular narratives about technology and the economy in general.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

MOOC uses new AP Physics curriculum, could aid both students and teachers. “The effective application of technology has enormous significance for the future of higher education, and it is important for Rice to push the boundaries of what is possible with a MOOC,” Levander said. “This isn’t a typical MOOC.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Is education technology investing back on track? educational technology companies whose primary purpose is to improve outcomes for teachers and learners across K-12 and higher education. Education technology investments appear to be on a similar trajectory. Are investors still eager to put their money in education startups?

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2018

Sure, but the hype around MOOCs, or massive open online courses, said that people would start finding a cheap online replacement for college and that hasn’t happened. First of all in a faster and cheaper universe, you’re going to have to have career discovery at the secondary-school level. I don’t think it’s that slow.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2018

That's an interesting dynamic where so much of this is at this intersection of not just higher ed or post-secondary education world, but it's also what's happening in terms of employer training. There's a lot more competition and the boundaries between academic credit and noncredit training are blurring.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

higher ed responded swiftly by opening online in a few weeks , a feat made possible only because privileged American secondary intuitions long ago introduced digital access in nearly every college in the nation. Poor Internet Access Cripples Online Higher Ed When the pandemic careened across the globe in spring 2020, U.S.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Me, I write about education technology for a living. And I do so because I want us — all of us — to flourish; and too often both education and technology are deeply complicit in exploitation and destruction instead. Technology offers itself as the solution. Not everywhere looks like Brandeis. I'm an ed-tech critic.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 24, 2016

I helped start the conference with a half-day workshop on “How Technology Can Enhance Liberal Education: The State of the Art in 2016.” Discussion went in some interesting angles, such as secondary education. This last point has been a major theme in this quadrant of American higher education as far back as the 1990s.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Given that some of these traits lie at the heart of criticisms I''m inclined to make about the non-connectivist MOOC movement and many of the VC-funded ed tech ventures, I can''t wait to discuss this with Ray! From 2001-03, he served as Vermont''s education commissioner.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 3, 2011

EPCOP MOOC WEBINAR ( Australia Series ) Mon 5 Sep 09:00PM New York / Tue 6 Sep 01:00AM GMT / Tue 6 Sep 11:00AM Sydney Coach Carole. A free webinar about the E-portfolio Massive Open Online Course (EpCop MOOC), a free e-portfolio professional development activity. LIVE-AZ TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION MATRIX ( Classroom 2.0

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 20, 2011

link] EPCOP MOOC WEBINAR ( Australia Series ) Mon 22 Aug 09:00PM New York / Tue 23 Aug 01:00AM GMT / Tue 23 Aug 11:00AM Sydney Coach Carole. David Simpson ([link] will discuss the use of facebook and other social networking sites in education and the need for/issues around digital citizenship education in Secondary schools.

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Edsurge

JULY 23, 2021

As prices rose at most post-secondary institutions over the last decades, tuition at these colleges fell. It wasn’t until providers of so-called MOOCs—massive open online courses—entered into online partnership with high-ranking colleges about a decade ago that serious discounting took off.

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 18, 2016

post-secondary education needs closer connections to K-12, especially given demographic and economic changes (126-8). Naturally I find two key features absent or woefully underplayed, namely technology and adjunctification. differentiation will have to be much stronger, tied more closely to market needs (115ff).

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 18, 2016

post-secondary education needs closer connections to K-12, especially given demographic and economic changes (126-8). Naturally I find two key features absent or woefully underplayed, namely technology and adjunctification. differentiation will have to be much stronger, tied more closely to market needs (115ff).

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 15, 2011

link] EPCOP MOOC WEBINAR ( Australia Series ) Mon 15 Aug 09:00PM New York / Tue 16 Aug 01:00AM GMT / Tue 16 Aug 11:00AM Sydney Coach Carole. EpCoP MOOC webinar [link] TECH TALK TUESDAYS: THE STUDENT VOICE ( Australia Series ) Tue 15 Aug 02:00AM New York / Tue 16 Aug 06:00AM GMT / Tue 16 Aug 04:00PM Sydney Anne Mirtschin.

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Edsurge

MAY 31, 2022

There are two main reasons for optimism in the education technology sector specifically: the sustainability and evolution of business models and an abundance of talent. the government set aside [about] $190 billion under the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) aid package. Just in the U.S.,

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

So declares the newest forward-looking publication from the higher-ed information technology association EDUCAUSE, “ 2021 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report: Information Security Edition.” Postsecondary and Secondary Credentials ” report. The nonprofit tallies 967,734 unique secondary and post-secondary credentials in the United States.

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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. The Ivies are all risk-averse,” says Peggy McCready, former associate vice provost for technology and digital initiatives at UPenn Libraries.

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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. education technology companies raised $1.45 educational technology companies whose primary purpose is to support educators and learners across preK-12 and postsecondary education.

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ViewSonic Education

DECEMBER 27, 2018

After all, with the way technology has become interwoven into our daily lives, it only makes sense that our educational structure adapts to this shift to leverage the power of technology in the classroom. Dr. Neelam Parmar; Teacher & Director of E-learning for Primary & Secondary Schools. Well, you’re not alone.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 19, 2014

Eleanor Roosevelt The technologies of the Internet and the Web are reshaping where, when, and from whom we learn--and even how we think about learning. For 20 years, the NMC and its members have dedicated themselves to exploring and developing potential applications of emerging technologies for learning, research, and creative inquiry.

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ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 1, 2019

Incorporating technology in the classroom has paved the way for a myriad of innovative methods and practices that are aimed at improving upon teaching structures of the past. Blended learning enables me to effectively bring technology into the classroom. Children may not have a ccess to technology and/or the internet.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2016

Students like Battushig who used free online courses to achieve world-class education motivated players like Coursera and the State Department to launch initiatives like Learning Hubs and MOOC camps from Vietnam to Bolivia. primary and secondary education. In recent years, Latin America has enrolled nearly all students in.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

School Psychology Doctoral Candidate and Intern, CEO STEMx: Stemulating Teaching with Emerging Technology Methodologies - Simulation vs. Virtual Learning Environments - Dr. Nicole Simon, Assistant Professor Engineering/Physics/Technology Dept.

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iLearn Technology

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Hundreds of conferences, workshops, MOOCS, edcamps, professional journals, blogs, the list seriously goes on and on. There are a lot of options for professional development. If you’re like me, your inbox and mailbox have a pretty consistent stream of offerings.

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Wired Campus

APRIL 30, 2015

Our sharks were Goldie Blumenstyk, a senior writer at The Chronicle; Jason Jones, a co-editor of the ProfHacker blog and director of educational technology at Trinity College, in Connecticut; and Paul Freedman, founder of Entangled Ventures, an education-technology company. Each spoke from a different perspective — Ms.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 29, 2017

I actually presented three times, each session offering a different cut of my thoughts on the future of education and technology. New technologies drew some attention. “Older” technologies were much in the air. A Maltese education leader dove into their secondary school laptop initiative.

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Edsurge

MAY 15, 2018

that is focused specifically on post-secondary education—anything beyond high school. We estimate about 65 percent of jobs in 2025 will require some form of post-secondary education. Part of the problem with MOOCs was it was the same delivery method. What's the vision behind this? They've never heard of it.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 25, 2013

OER ranges from highly structured college courses (MOOCs) to less structured curricula from colleges and other institutes of learning (OpenCourseWare a/k/a OCW), to free online textbooks, and everything in between. Standards, and New Jersey World Class Standards in Technology. I plan to share it with my peers in New Jersey.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

SHEG currently offers three impressive curricula that may be put to immediate use in secondary classrooms and libraries. Did you ever wonder how your own students might perform on those dozens of tasks? You can now find out.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” (Waiting for folks in education technology to respond similarly… but I won’t hold my breath.). More robot news up in the MOOC section above.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2016

education technology agenda. Promoting the use of education technology should not go without also working to abate the age-old concerns about efficacy and equity. Criticisms about education technologies have existed perhaps just as long as the technologies themselves have been around. What do you say?

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