Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Udacity helped popularize the idea of offering college-level courses online to anyone for free, a format known as MOOCs (for Massive Open Online Courses). But this week a Udacity official called MOOCs “dead,” leading to questions about what that means for one of the company’s offerings (which still include free MOOCs).

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Edsurge

JULY 25, 2017

And she makes the case for why free online courses like hers—which are known as Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs—might still lead to a revolution in higher education, even though the hype around them has died down. Some people might even wonder whether MOOCs are even still around since you don’t hear much about these courses today.

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2017

I took one of the very first MOOCs, and back then the videos, assignments, and certificates were all free. As MOOC providers focussed on finding a business model, they started putting certain aspects of the experience behind a paywall, hoping to get more people to pay. That was in 2011.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

A lot has changed since 2012 or, the year the New York Times dubbed the "Year of the MOOC." Today, many MOOC providers now charge a fee. And popular providers like Coursera and edX are increasingly partnering with colleges and universities to offer MOOC-based degrees online. But the big change in 2018 was MOOC-based degrees.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2018

MOOCs have gone from a buzzword to a punchline, especially among professors who were skeptical of these “massive open online courses” in the first place. MOOCs started in around 2011 when a few Stanford professors put their courses online and made them available to anyone who wanted to take them. And that's what MOOCS have.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2017

MOOCs have evolved over the past five years from a virtual version of a classroom course to an experience that feels more like a Netflix library of teaching videos. These days, most MOOC providers let learners start courses whenever they like (or on a bi-weekly or monthly basis, as Coursera does).

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Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2023

That’s the privileged question that officials at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University have been mulling over for the last two years, and this month they announced some answers. The founding came at the height of public excitement around free online courses known as MOOCs, which stands for Massive Open Online Courses.

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2022

The tech giant Meta, widely known under its previous name Facebook, seems to be eyeing a way to allow users to offer video classes. Facebook Classes has been compared to Udemy, an online course platform which raised hundreds of millions of dollars during the pandemic based on the idea that anyone can teach video classes.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 29, 2016

The modern massive open online course movement, which began when the first “MOOCs” were offered by Stanford professors in late 2011, is now half a decade old. In that time, MOOC providers have raised over $400 million and now employ more than a thousand staff. Class Central. million Udacity - 4 million. And it seems to be working.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 18, 2020

Technology has vastly disrupted and improved numerous sectors around the world, be it the government and banking, or retail and marketing. Unsurprisingly, technology is also impacting the world of education. Video-assisted Learning. After all, these technologies bring the one thing every classroom needs: immersive learning.

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EdTech4Beginners

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

When people talk about the future of technology in education, they picture every student having access to a computer or a tablet; they see paperless rooms where technology trained teachers lead the class. The increased availability of cheap and fast technology goes hand in hand with this. Open Ended Education.

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2018

In most cases, what professors ask students to do outside the classrooms is watch video lectures, and Barba thinks that part of the flipped approach needs to go, and that professors are relying too much on such videos as a crutch. STEM has always been lecture heavy,” she says, “and that's the big difference.”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2019

This op-ed is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. I define education technology as any tool that supports learning, digital or not. I define education technology as any tool that supports learning, digital or not. An abacus is an educational technology, as is the slide rule.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Large-scale online courses called MOOCs can get millions of registered users over time. The problem, he argues, is that providers of MOOCs, including Coursera and edX, require registration to get to the materials. Downes has a special relationship to MOOCs. Their course inspired both the term “MOOCs” and a whole new industry.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MARCH 3, 2018

Today, The Goal-Minded Teacher ( #EduGoalsMOOC ) free open online course Twitter chat took place about the topic, Effective Technology Integration. A short list of useful resources that relate to the use of technology in education. Places To Find Research On Technology & Language Teaching/Learning. Here comes the SAMR.

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2019

An experimental university announced last week that its home-grown online teaching platform can now handle up to 400 students at a time via live video. In some ways, the San Francisco-based company is arguing that high-quality education can be done cheaper thanks to technology in ways that have been elusive in the past.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Technology is a huge part of our students’ lives. This is why teachers need to challenge students to find the strength to act nobly and use technology to make a positive impact on the world. Mission: Create a video tutorial to teach peers to play your favorite song. Mission: Create an ebook for a classmate.

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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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Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Until lately, those online MIT courses have somewhat resembled so-called massive open online courses, or MOOCs, says Clara Piloto, director of global programs at MIT Professional Education. Now, as MOOCs have evolved to court professional audiences , so too have MIT’s efforts to harness companies and organizations.

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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. Some of the systems also offer video editing, recording and screen downloading options.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 29, 2019

What’s life like after quitting a tenured job as a professor to become a freelance educator, making video courses and podcasts for a living? He was a well-known astronomer, but he was also using television and film and these other multimedia technologies effectively to communicate these big ideas to a broader audience. It was secret?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2018

Some teachers are trading red grading pens like this one for video feedback. There’s evidence that video grading does more to motivate students than written edits — and it can also save teachers time. The videos, he has found, allow him to provide useful, big-picture commentary. Technology has limitations, of course.

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eSpark

APRIL 7, 2022

Think of it as a cheat sheet to help you learn all you need to know about technology in the classroom! It is also often referred to as “hybrid learning” and can incorporate many different types of education technology. MOOC refers to a massive online open course, a type of distance learning.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2018

Unfortunately, most massive open online course (MOOC) platforms still feel like drafty lecture halls instead of intimate seminar rooms. The majority of online learning environments are no more than video-hosting platforms with quizzes and a discussion forum. I think we’ve seen this reemergence—unintentionally—in the form of MOOCs.

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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. Use the power of peer pressure.

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EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 7, 2018

The new E-learning technologies keep on evolving, and a lot of companies are investing in it to yield efficient employees. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). MOOC is not a new concept in the e-learning industry. It offers a large number of students access to study high-quality courses online through video streaming.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2017

The colleges create course videos and assignments that are offered on the company’s platform for free—and students can pay for a certificate showing completion. It has been five year since Coursera launched its first MOOCs. But not many professors are actually using Coursera material as the video content for on-campus courses.

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EdTech4Beginners

APRIL 2, 2017

The amount of new acronyms in the educational technology world is staggering… and often overwhelming for educators. BYOT – Bring Your Own Technology. CREATE – Collaboartion, Resources, Educate, Apps, Technology, Enriching. ICT – Information Communications Technology. STEAM – Science, Technology, Art, Engineering, Maths.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2021

A decade ago, large-scale online courses known as MOOCs were all the rage, touted as a possible alternative to traditional college and celebrated in the popular press. Talbert had taken MOOCs back when they first started and was unimpressed. And the feedback loop is at the center of all human learning processes. How was what you saw?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2018

One person pushing to put learning science into practice on college campuses is Sanjay Sarma, vice president for open learning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. EdSurge: When MOOCs started a few years ago, researchers were excited to learn from the data generated from all of these online learners. Where do we lose them?

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EdTechnocation.com

APRIL 3, 2014

For Unit 3 of the MOOC-Ed, Coaching Digital Learning: Cultivating a Culture of Change , we explored the TPACK and SAMR frameworks. These are two great models to help teachers find the most effective way of integrating educational technology. We should not simply use technology for the sake of using technology.

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2020

In my 2014 book “ MOOCS Essentials ,” I reflected on each aspect of the residential learning process and how developers of massive open online courses were trying to replicate those experiences virtually, or come up with ways to keep students engaged without direct teacher-student interaction.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Join me today, Wednesday, September 26th, for a one-hour live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar on the "true history" of the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) with Dave Cormier, Alec Couros, Stephen Downes, Rita Kop, Inge de Waard, and Carol Yeager. I developed their MA in Lifelong Learning programme.

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Learning with 'e's

MAY 2, 2019

Photo by Vladimer Shioshvili on Flickr Educators have been using video for decades. The first time I saw video being used in a classroom was in 1973. I was studying at college and a man in a white coat wheeled a television and video player into the room. Today, video use in the classroom is more commonplace. The future?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2022

Young The MOOC giant was valued at more than $3.6 Do Instructional Videos Work Better When the Teacher is On Screen? Young This analysis of a major MOOC provider proved prescient; the nonprofit was purchased later in the year. A math professor makes the case for using class time for active learning. By Jeffrey R. It Depends.

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Edsurge

APRIL 27, 2023

And that did happen for male participants in the study, who did better on a post-video quiz about the material when a happy voice delivered the material than when a sad one did. Sarin compared a white professor having a computer agent deliver their lecture video in a “Black voice” to a performer in blackface.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2018

While not quite the “Year of the MOOC,” 2018 saw a resurgence in interest around the ways these massive open online courses are delivering free (and more often these days, not free) online education around the world, and how these providers are increasingly turning to traditional institutions of learning. Without a University Involved.).

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