Wired Campus

JUNE 16, 2015

Most students in free online courses don’t spend as much time doing classwork as do traditional college students, but they do log a significant number of hours, according to a new survey of more than 4,500 MOOC students by Class Central, a website that reviews free courses. How does that compare with traditional college students?

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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. A report released this week draws on a survey of Coursera students to look at their motivations and what kinds of educational and career results they are seeing.

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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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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. His work focuses on British universities, where he says McDonaldization has taken hold more firmly than in the U.S.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

Also note, the point of this post isn’t to showcase how innovative higher education is but rather to point out innovations that are out there as a kind of survey while also hopefully helping pollinate the possibility of innovation in the upper end of the field and ‘industry’ of education. Open Curriculum.

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2019

When you look at the data—and we still need better data—studies show 80 percent of the people pursuing [bootcamps and MOOC]s already have a bachelor's degree. Then if you can afford it and can get to the school and study face to face we still have the old MBA credential. So the innovation is not happening in undergrad?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

But the studies differ in their approaches to analyzing the myriad options. Credential Engine is surveying the landscape first, trying to develop a comprehensive dataset before coming to any particular conclusions. “We

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Edsurge

JANUARY 29, 2019

Fill out this five-minute survey , and you can enter to win a $100 Amazon gift card. 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. We want to hear from you!

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Edsurge

JUNE 22, 2017

In national surveys of prospective adult students that we have conducted regularly at Northeastern University over recent years, we have consistently found that 60 percent of students prefer a blended or hybrid learning experience. Similarly, the U.S. Earlier this month, M.I.T.

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TeacherCast

JANUARY 1, 2016

For instance, one recent survey reported that 75% of the responding K-12 educators in the United States assessed their student’s access to technology in the classroom as “good” or “great” Roughly four out of five teachers planned to utilize these types of resources more extensively during the 2016 academic year.

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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? Students were surveyed both before and after the course. 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? But the surveys put parent satisfaction in the 88th to 96th percentiles.

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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. Instead of telling a student: “Use this flashcard app to study on your own time!”

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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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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

Lesson 4: Go study other great teachers and other great learning experiences. Check out the list of global MOOC platforms curated by Class Central, but realize there are entirely different ecosystems of platforms that specialize in corporate training or adaptive learning. Pore through the feedback they submit on surveys.

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Edsurge

JULY 23, 2021

A study conducted by WECT before the pandemic found that only about 20 percent of colleges they surveyed charged less tuition and lower fees than they do to those who study in person. The survey also uncovered another revelation: online fees added to tuition can be so large that they are greater than tuition alone.

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 5, 2016

study, Going Digital , on faculty attitudes towards digital materials. For example, MOOCs are still weak on completion and learning, but evolving. A: CCP continues to evolve, complementing the EDUCAUSE Core Data Survey. He references the plight of adjuncts, including Doonesbury’s take.

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Mistakengoal.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

This is especially true because many people think that technology or the study of technology is new, perhaps beginning with the microcomputer explosion of the early 80s or the development of the World Wide Web in the early 90s. Friedman and the rest of the uncritical MOOC cheerleaders) or dystopian views. Technology in U.S.

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Mistakengoal.com

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

This is especially true because many people think that technology or the study of technology is new, perhaps beginning with the microcomputer explosion of the early 80s or the development of the World Wide Web in the early 90s. Friedman and the rest of the uncritical MOOC cheerleaders) or dystopian views. Technology in U.S.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2020

In a 2018 survey of hiring leaders , we found that online pre-hire assessment was the single most likely “disruptor” of the reliance on degrees in hiring, followed by simulation-based hiring. But that assumes a positive experience, and that is something that remains to be seen and needs to be studied.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 16, 2020

In a survey of 1,000 long-time high school teachers, 73% say their classrooms use laptops and tablets daily. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are also excellent resources, offering free classes from world-renowned universities. Technology is becoming so prominent in education that it’s now a study option for aspiring teachers.

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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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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2016

Case studies and visual simulations are becoming more common ways of providing this type of experiential learning. These various ways of training account for 64 percent of the learning tools identified by the respondents in this study, which is more than significant.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity. ” Gartner says, rather vaguely, that it relies on scenarios and surveys and pattern recognition to place technologies on the line.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 16, 2013

There are eight conference strands covering a wide variety of timely topics, such as MOOCs, e-books, maker spaces, mobile services, embedded librarians, green libraries, doctoral student research, library and information center "tours," and more! We have 146 accepted conference sessions and ten keynote addresses.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 11, 2014

Walden University researcher, Rose Arnell, is looking for survey participants : I am a doctoral student at Walden University and am conducting a study called, Teacher Beliefs on Self-Learning, Collaboration, and Participation in Virtual Communities of Practice. Please fill out this invitation to be considered for this study.

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Wired Campus

APRIL 30, 2015

Blumenstyk as a reporter surveying the landscape, Mr. Jones as a professor and administrator at a college, and Mr. Freedman as an investor looking for the next big thing in education technology. Freedman: I love where you started with the criticism of the MOOCs. I mean, MOOCs aren’t learning platforms, they’re distribution platforms.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Using everyday digital content, the COR paper and online assessments directly connect to the questions posed in SHEG’s study and engage learners in credibility decision-making around three COR Competencies: Who’s behind the information? Social studies teachers will adore these! What’s the evidence?

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “Aftermath of the MOOC wars: Can commercial vendors support creative higher education ? Data and “Research” Via Vox : “A bot crawled thousands of studies looking for simple math errors. Raise $146.1 The results are concerning.”

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2017

They can be something everybody uses; that’s how 2012 became the year of the MOOC, and why virtual reality will no doubt be widely cited as the trend of 2016. MOOCs continued to increase in number and attendance. Duke University ran a widely read lecture capture survey. By Stephen Downes, National Research Council.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 12, 2016

.” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Education Dive makes claims about “ MOOCs as tools for equity in under-resourced high schools.” ” Elsewhere, more claims about “the global poor” and MOOCs (and other ed-tech companies) in Edsurge. .”

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The generation of students attending college today just aren’t that impressed by traditional markers of authority—and they’re not coming to campus to gaze up at wise leaders on a pedestal (well, at least according to surveys). And it's not because they picked business to study or history to study or English.

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Hack Education

APRIL 14, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via the Coursera blog : “New mobile features: Transcripts, notes, and reminders.” " It’s lovely to see the big innovation from the MOOC startups in 2017 involves the learning management system. ” Udacity has updated its online "classroom."

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Hack Education

APRIL 13, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). " Via The New York Times : “ Holocaust Is Fading From Memory, Survey Finds”: “Thirty-one percent of Americans, and 41 percent of millennials, believe that two million or fewer Jews were killed in the Holocaust; the actual number is around six million. .”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

High School social studies teacher. In January, they plan to launch a massive online open course (aka a MOOC) called Making Sense of the News: News Literacy Lessons for Digital Citizens. One early K-12 adopter of the Center’s news-literacy lessons was Janis Schachter, a social studies teacher at Northport High School on Long Island.

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Hack Education

APRIL 21, 2017

Yet, according to this study, nearly half of the donors have chosen to supply educational technology, far more than are building schools, providing basic books and materials or employing teachers. ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via WCTI12.com ” “ MOOCs Started Out Completely Free.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2017

Via Motherboard : “ New York City Passes Bill to Study Biases in Algorithms Used by the City.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). A call to rebrand MOOCs , from Edsurge. ” The city uses algorithms, for example, to place students in public schools. ” Education in the Courts. .”

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