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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. What’s Next for Pearson?
— Jesse Stommel (@Jessifer) January 2, 2016. — David Wiley, PhD (@opencontent) January 4, 2016. Jargon: Someone uses the term MOOC. Most people I communicate with on Twitter are fully aware of what a MOOC is. Of course, context matters (heavily) outside of socialmedia. It could get embarrassing.
From Zoom to Skype to Webinars and even live streaming on socialmedia itself, video is perhaps the most visible and common form of technological innovation in K-12 and higher ed. MOOCs are great ideas, but assessment and feedback loops and certification are among the many issues holding them back. We shall see. An example?
April 21, 2017 Focus on the “Learner” September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon! IMMOOC September 19, 2016 3 More Critical Questions For the Innovative Educator March 8, 2016 Finding the Good Problems September 15, 2016 The Arrows Go Back and Forth #IMMOOC. Don’t add.
September 15, 2016 The Arrows Go Back and Forth #IMMOOC September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon! IMMOOC June 2, 2016 Embracing Meaningful Change at All Levels October 24, 2016 Our Students March 8, 2016 Finding the Good Problems.
Technology topics included socialmedia, video, 3d printing, VR, internet of things, automation, and privacy. Educational technology : I noted stories about MOOCs growing, socialmedia, 3d printing stretching across the curriculum, brainstorming about VR and automation.
Last week I participated in the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) 2016 conference. The event became much more dramatic than expected, once the hosting city, Washington DC, was clobbered by the great snowpocalyspe of 2016. Let me share some materials here, along with reflections on the conference.
It's also an deeply uncomfortable time to be an American with any sort of subject matter expertise — it has been since well before the 2016 election, but particularly since then. This online monitoring includes tracking students' socialmedia accounts, "listening" for menacing keywords and phrases.
The first question is the following: How many of you in this room go onto your personal socialmedia while you are working? September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon! IMMOOC June 28, 2018 3 Ways to Develop a Shared Path Toward One Vision November 21, 2016 The Mantra of An Innovative Educator (Video).
What can we expect in 2016 from the intersection of technology and education? And the MOOC numbers look like they’re rising. Unless the worm turns globally, I’d expect planet MOOC to keep growing in 2016. That should extend into 2016. I expect to see numerous stories along these lines in 2016.
October 25, 2013 Learning From Eric Sheninger July 27, 2011 Tell More Stories September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon! IMMOOC July 28, 2010 You Should Read…(July 28, 2010) February 12, 2017 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting February 27, 2017 #IMMOOC. Bear with me.
In the Deloitte survey respondents identified a variety of learning tools that they felt can contribute to their development within their company, these included external certificates at 32 percent, MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) at 18 percent and external, self-directed learning powered by socialmedia at 14 percent.
With so many districts sharing openly on socialmedia, why not just ask who is doing it and how they are making it happen? March 31, 2016 Crucial “Digital Citizenship” Conversations August 8, 2017 Education Decision Making Flowchart September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon!
Today at 8pm GMT, the second #EDENchat of 2016 will be live on Twitter. 3) How are MOOCs and other massive open study opportunities changing or influencing out thinking as educators? Are we in danger of being left behind if our organisation/institution is not involved in MOOCs? 4) Is open content truly 'free'?
My brain is in so many different socialmedia spaces now that I have no idea where this question came from, but someone asked (paraphrased), “What do we mean by risk taking?” September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon! February 17, 2016 Starting From Scratch #InnovatorsMindset.
The last two decades alone have seen a rapid rise in popularity of the World Wide Web, smartphones, socialmedia, social networks, augmented reality, wearable technologies and user generated content sites. I hope to see you there!
The number of times I have seen it shared on socialmedia, or brought up in conferences has been staggering. September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon! IMMOOC June 18, 2015 Personalize, Not Standardize April 23, 2016 Conforming to the System of School?
High School seniors (left to right) Hayley Striegel, Olivia Poplawski, Cheri Zheng-Fredericks and Julie Pignataro look for ways to verify information they’ve encountered on socialmedia. My students are all about socialmedia. My students are all about socialmedia. Northport, N.Y.,
Starting “ The Innovator’s Mindset ” MOOC this week ( #IMMOOC ), a lot of people are jumping into blogging, and many people are reluctant and nervous. September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon! IMMOOC September 13, 2016 It is your thinking that creates solutions, not any technology.
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He cited Jon Udell ‘s vision of Wikipedia as a place where knowledge is socially constructed. I asked Groom to describe the Domain of One’s Own movement’s state of the union in 2016. He criticized the allure of universal solutions and totalizing narratives (the LMS, the MOOC). A: Jim hoped so.
He cited Jon Udell ‘s vision of Wikipedia as a place where knowledge is socially constructed. I asked Groom to describe the Domain of One’s Own movement’s state of the union in 2016. He criticized the allure of universal solutions and totalizing narratives (the LMS, the MOOC). A: Jim hoped so.
. “ ICE officials have invited tech companies, including Microsoft , to develop algorithms that will track visa holders’ socialmedia activity ,” ProPublica reports. Schools should consider the ways in which their own socialmedia surveillance re-inscribes these sorts of violent, nationalist policies.
In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations. Claims on SocialMedia : Students consider the sources of a tweet and the information contained in it in order to describe what makes it both a useful and not useful source of information.
Via The Independent : “13-year-old girl arrested after contacting clown on socialmedia and asking him to kill her teacher.” — Stephen King (@StephenKing) October 3, 2016. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). .” Nothing says “experts” like “crystal ball.”
” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) ” MOOCs looked – for a short while, at least – like they were going to pivot to become LMSes. billion for 2016, the largest loss in its history.
The Dick and Betsy DeVos Family Foundation, which has given money to charter schools (including Success Academy Charter Schools), media organizations (including The 74), and conservative education organizations (including Jeb Bush’s Foundation for Excellence in Education). Perhaps that name, Betsy DeVos, is familiar.
Stories From Previous Years: Here are some of the stories that got us to where we are today: The Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2016. Beyond the MOOC. SocialMedia, Campus Activism, and Free Speech. School and “Skills” MOOCS, Outsourcing, and Online Education. MOOCs and Anti-MOOCs. Indie Ed-Tech.
But the total dollars fell sharply in 2016 – “only” $2.2 This is part of the push for MOOCs, we must be honest.). Similarly MOOC startups have now all seemed to pivot towards corporate technology training, but certainly all corporate training isn’t running through these companies.
.” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ For-Profit Companies With the Highest Enrollments at Their Colleges, Fall 2016.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Gotta keep hyping that MOOC thing. Via Edsurge : “ MOOCs Are No Longer Massive.
.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news in the job training section below. ” More on teen socialmedia usage, this time from Buzzfeed : “‘Tweetdecking’ Is Taking Over Twitter. Doane University has joined edX.
One of the big stories this week: the US Department of Education ’s announcement about which “non-traditional providers” ( MOOCs , coding bootcamps ) will be eligible for financial aid as part of its EQUIP experiment. ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Education Politics. Innovation!
This year feels different too than the previous years in which I’ve written these reviews because education technology – as an industry – sort of floundered in 2016, as I think my series will show. Beyond the MOOC. SocialMedia, Campus Activism, and Free Speech. MOOCs and Anti-MOOCs.
Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). The Atlantic on Logan Paul : “The Social-Media Star and the Suicide.” ” Via Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill : “Fall 2016 IPEDS First Look: Continued growth in distance education in US.”
in 2016 on a student visa.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news in the credential section below. Via Class Central : “Analysis of 450 MOOC -Based Microcredentials Reveals Many Options But Little Consistency.” ” asks Pacific Standard.
” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via WCTI12.com ” “ MOOCs Started Out Completely Free. Via iNews : “ University to monitor student socialmedia to gauge well-being.” Via Edsurge : “Reactions to a College Alternative: Debating the Merits of MissionU.”
Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ CSU signs deal to record, broadcast classroom lectures,” says the San Francisco Examiner. “ Facebook is donating 500 virtual reality kits to Arkansas schools under a first-of-its-kind partnership between the socialmedia giant and the state,” says the AP.
Now professional protesters, incited by the media, are protesting. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 11, 2016. ” “Make MOOCs great again.” ” “ Socialmedia causes some users to rethink their views on an issue,” says Pew Research Center. Very unfair! — Donald J.
” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Buzzfeed : “ Online Charter Schools Prepare For A Trump-Era Boom.” ” “ The Most Popular Courses of 2016 ” on Coursera. ” “ Ed-Tech Research That Mattered in 2016,” according to Education Week.
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) December 13, 2016. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “A judge will allow Ohio ’s education department to review attendance records that could force Ohio’s largest online charter to return millions of its funding,” says the AP. .”
Either way, he’s gone too soon; we’ve lost too much , too many in 2016. pic.twitter.com/BBhsgwY2FZ — Audrey Watters (@audreywatters) August 1, 2016. “Hardly Anyone Wants to Take a Liberal Arts MOOC,” Edsurge informed its readers in February. We’ve seen this before in the MOOC world.
” Via the Data Quality Campaign : “ Student Data Privacy Legislation : A Summary of 2016 State Legislation.” ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). MOOC hype deja vu.). of Mississippi Students Stage Sit-In Over Racist Social-Media Post.”
Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Just a few weeks after Daphne Koller ’s announcement she was leaving the MOOC startup she co-founded, Coursera unveiled “ Coursera for Business ” this week, marking its pivot from “democratizing higher ed” to “ training corporate employees.”
” The University of Northern New Jersey had a website – one with a.edu domain, to boot – as well as several active socialmedia profiles. 2016 was, as the president of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation wrote earlier this month in Inside Higher Ed , a “ Pivotal Year for Accreditation.”
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