Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2019

That means the service includes new features tailored for use in an academic environment, including plagiarism detection to spot cheaters and integration with existing student gradebooks in the learning management systems (LMS) that colleges use. We’re talking about a potential major disruption to the LMS market,” she says. “We

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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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Mark Smithers

MARCH 12, 2013

This morning Richard Grusin posted a series of twenty tweets presenting a highly critical and thought provoking view of MOOCs. MOOCs are the bastard children of 1980s cyber-utopianism and post-1945 economic neoliberalism. Richard Grusin (@rgrusin) March 12, 2013. Richard Grusin (@rgrusin) March 12, 2013.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2019

Harvard’s business school launched its first online courses in 2013 in a unit it called HBX. That was at the height of the buzz around MOOCs, and about a year after the start of edX, the online course platform founded by Harvard and MIT. Kenny, a spokesperson for what was then HBX, told The Chronicle of Higher Education back in 2013.

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mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Andrew Ng, Stanford University computer science professor, is the co-founder of Coursera, a for-profit company that partners with colleges and universities to provide free MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses). Here are the 210 offerings for 2013. Coursera isn''t the only MOOC organization to consider, of course. Coursera MOOC'

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2020

Students have left their campuses, and entire curricula have shifted into distance-learning mode. But despite growth in the numbers and sophistication of online options, high school seniors continue to apply for the opportunity to learn with one another on a college campus. Things will never be the same in higher education!”

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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. Innovations such as stackable non-degree credentials as an on-ramp and low-cost MOOC-based degrees from top universities are likely to only grow access to post-baccalaureate education.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Boston-based private equity firm Devonshire Investors has acquired NovoEd , a San Francisco-based provider of an online learning platform. The pair then started the company in January 2013. Terms of the acquisition deal were not disclosed. Completion rates hover in the single digits.)

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Schmidt, who is the director of learning innovation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab, began issuing non-academic credentials for his team around 2013. To offer digital diplomas via blockchain, MIT partnered with Learning Machine to develop an open-source app for students called Blockcerts Wallet.

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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. Look out for rhizomatic learning. Well I missed out on writing a review for 2013 so I thought I’d get in reasonably early and write some predictions for what might happen in 2014.

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Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2016

Asia has the world’s highest regional growth rate for e-learning, and an e-learning market projected to be worth $12.1 At Coursera, we’ve seen registered users in China climb by more than 500 percent between 2013 and 2016, crossing the one million mark in 2015. billion by 2018. And the landscape is increasingly crowded.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2018

There’s even a growing body of scholarly work that outlines a critique against the corporatization of college—arguing that even when reforms are well-intentioned, they are making campuses more like burger franchises than centers of learning and research. That’s not what we went into this thinking we would learn.”

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Mark Smithers

DECEMBER 2, 2013

I’m not attending ASCILITE 2013 but I am following the Twitter stream closely and occasionally comment into the stream. I agree with this idea that students can and should interact with experts during their learning. A big question is how this can be scaled to large numbers of students in a learning environment.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

DECEMBER 10, 2013

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update December 10th Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Margaret Mead Welcome to the Learning Revolution. The technologies of the Internet and the Web are reshaping where, when, and from whom we learn. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Today is day four of the 2013 Global Education Conference. During the conference opening sessions we brainstormed as set of grassroots global education projects that we could bring to our personal learning networks to try to get started. Hard to believe we''re almost at the end! How will you accomplish this? Instructor and Ph.

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Educator Innovator

JUNE 14, 2013

After a Department of Education kick-off at the Reimagining Education Conference and initial practitioner learning opportunities by partners Scratch, the Afterschool Alliance, and Mozilla Webmakers, the Summer of Making and Connecting kicks into even higher gear with the launch of Maker Party 2013 and the Making Learning Connected mooc on June 15.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2019

Also notable is the continuing dip in the number of angel and seed deals, which have fallen from a peak of more than 100 in 2013 to less than half that number in 2018. Over time, as investors learned which business models worked—and which didn’t—some have fled the sector. Now many MOOCs are embedded within these institutions.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 29, 2019

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. I threw it all up there back in 2013. It looked like there was going to be a big realignment. Is it sustainable?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

-Catalina Valenzuela "Loved the chance to learn, share and grow both as an educator and as a person who wants to stay abreast of changes and innovation." A fantastic demonstration of a global learning event." Jessie Voigts "Thanks for providing this global forum that truly flattens the world of learning." Martinez H.

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The Principal of Change

APRIL 6, 2018

Recently, I had a conversation with Tom Murray and Katie Martin about professional learning. The one thing that bothers me is often seeing principals or superintendents that are there to “learn”, walking out of sessions when their phone rings to take a phone call. We don’t allow the teacher to do any learning.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

You can have interesting stories, and you can have interesting learning.” Some nonprofit colleges that produce MOOCs, or Massive Open Online Courses, have experimented with different production methods. Does McDonnell worry that attempting to model teaching materials on popular entertainment will lead to a dumbing-down of the content?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2017

In fact, the number of deals has been on a steady downward slope since 2013. MOOC companies typically account for the bump in the “Post-Secondary” category, but aside from Coursera’s $64 million Series D round, few other companies focused in higher education scored a large deal. billion invested), since EdSurge began tracking U.S.

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Educator Innovator

JUNE 14, 2013

After a Department of Education kick-off at the Reimagining Education Conference and initial practitioner learning opportunities by partners Scratch, the Afterschool Alliance, and Mozilla Webmakers, the Summer of Making and Connecting kicks into even higher gear with the launch of Maker Party 2013 and the Making Learning Connected mooc on June 15.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Join me Thursday, February 28th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com conversation with return guest Roger Schank to talk about his book Teaching Minds : How Cognitive Science Can Save Our Schools , why MOOCs won''t save schools or the world, and why everything you think you know about education is wrong. psid=2013-02-28.1721.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&sid=2008350

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Wired Campus

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

The percentage of institutions offering a MOOC seems to be leveling off, at around 14 percent, while suspicions persist that MOOCs will not generate money or reduce costs for universities—and are not, in fact, sustainable. Back then, 28 percent of respondents believed MOOCs were sustainable, while 26 percent thought they were not.

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The Principal of Change

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

June 28, 2013 The Prophets In Your Land September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon! .” I have worked (and continue to work) on the idea that my job is to elevate others and aspire to be better because of the influence of those with whom I connect.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

If you haven''t participated in one of my other massive, peer-to-peer conferences , they are a blast (they are more than MOOCs, really, maybe HOOPs? We''ve started accepting proposals for the inaugural School Leadership Summit on March 28th-- 24 great sessions have already accepted! Highly Open Online and Participative conferences?).

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The Principal of Change

APRIL 4, 2018

Often, they felt my adjustments helped student learning. Who better to learn from as a grade two teacher than another grade two teacher, whether they are in your building or on the other side of the world. It is what you apply from learning from those networks that creates the innovation.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 31, 2013

homeschooling and independent learning conference, the super-exciting STEMx conference in September, the " future of libraries " (Library 2.013) conference in October, GlobalEdCon 2013, and more! 2013 WORLDWIDE HOMESCHOOL CONFERENCE August 23 - 24, 2013 [link] We''ve just announced the inaugural worldwide Homeschool Conference.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

MOOCs get social. Carolyn Rosé, an assistant professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, has been exploring ways to add social engagement to MOOCs since 2013. After students complete a lesson, they can choose to enter an online chat group where they discuss and apply what they learned.

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The Principal of Change

DECEMBER 30, 2016

That being said, I wanted to share this “Learning Resolution” with others as well, so I tweeted the following: What are you hoping to learn in 2017? March 7, 2013 Learning From the #Twitter Archives September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon! Share a video of your goal to #EDU2017.

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The Principal of Change

OCTOBER 30, 2017

There are a lot of “The 3 Things You Need to Be Successful” type posts, and although I do enjoy reading them and learn from them, they provide more good ideas than a script on how to become successful. ” September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon!

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 10, 2013

Like MOOCs, only more intimate. :) Because the events are virtual and we don''t have the traditional time/space/travel constraints of a physical event, we''ve boldly gone past the traditional conference model of "vetting and selecting" presenters to inclusion and audience choice. Please join us for one or all of these events.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2019

He says he’s grateful for the experience but feels he could have learned faster if he had a more senior developer to critique his code. She decided to dedicate her next startup to job seekers who learned programming languages outside a classroom. “We There was no feedback,” says Zia, 25. “If They’ve got it all wrong.”

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The Principal of Change

JANUARY 9, 2018

” May 7, 2015 Questions to Drive Growth #3QuestionsEDU September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon! IMMOOC December 16, 2016 4 Non-Negotiables for Schools August 29, 2013 Time is a gift; use accordingly. November 27, 2016 “Telling will never be as effective as experiencing.”

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Back in 2012 – 2013] I was impressed (like many others I’m sure) with how Wiley was able to frame the cost-savings argument around open textbooks to build broader interest for OERs. What do you think the whole MOOC thing George Siemens and I and others was about? We are focused on the advantages of OER-enabled pedagogy.

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The Principal of Change

MARCH 19, 2019

January 1, 2018 20 Inspirational Quotes to Start off 2018 September 7, 2011 More than just a dog March 27, 2013 My Dad September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon! IMMOOC December 30, 2016 2017 Learning Resolutions #EDU2017. It is just a cool story that I wanted to share with you all.

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