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JUNE 17, 2020

New study in @PNASNews on MOOC persistence- 2.5 A Thread 1/ [link] ( @whynotyet , @emyeom ) — Justin Reich (@bjfr) June 16, 2020. The MIT scholar outlined his recent research misadventures and his recommendations in a Twitter thread this week. New insights on scale, global achievement gaps, open science, & personalization.

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JULY 17, 2020

education technology company in 2020. Founded in 2012 by two Stanford University professors, Coursera was one of a trio of startups that spearheaded the hype around massive open online courses, or MOOCs, for short. On Wednesday, CampusLogic, a provider of financial aid software to colleges and universities, raised $120 million.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Just as formal education systems made a dramatic shift to digital since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, on-the-job training is changing as well. The same forces that transformed classrooms have accelerated the adoption of more digital learning in workplace training—advancing a trend that was already underway.

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AUGUST 11, 2016

A researcher, theorist, educator, Siemens is the digital learning guy. He’s credited with co-teaching the first MOOC in 2008, introduced the theory of “connectivism”—the idea that knowledge is distributed across digital networks—and spearheaded research projects about the role of data and analytics in education.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2022

as the leader in digital learning, representing the most adventurous innovations. Poor Internet Access Cripples Online Higher Ed When the pandemic careened across the globe in spring 2020, U.S. I’ve always thought of the U.S. But lately I’ve realized my perception may be flawed by a false sense of American exceptionalism.

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MARCH 27, 2020

Audience question] I’m wondering what schools are doing with their alumni to support their students, whether that be in the curriculum, involving them in virtual learning, or through any other means, especially with the class of 2020 that is most likely not going to have official commencement ceremonies or have those postponed.

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DECEMBER 26, 2019

So with these guidelines in mind, I’ve chosen six areas where edtech has made an impact this decade: Learning Management Systems. Learning analytics. Digital badges. Adaptive learning systems. Three types of edtech joined the “filmstrip” category in this decade: Learning Management Systems , MOOC s, and digital badges.

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APRIL 13, 2022

His prophecy was based on the notion that digital alternatives to face-to-face education—in his view, much cheaper and friendlier than conventional instruction—would convince millions of college students to turn their backs on stodgy, old campuses to earn degrees in internet alternatives instead. million from fall 2012 to fall 2020.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

The fall semester of 2020 is like nothing we have seen before in higher education. In fact, if we pull back from the immediate horrors of this moment, the move to online learning has actually been underway since around 2010, when universities and private entrepreneurs first began to experiment with Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

By 2020, 65 percent of U.S. Even as technology can help students, there are plenty of instances where it can also lead to dead ends: Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) did not make it possible for anyone on the planet to get the equivalent of a Stanford University degree for free. jobs will require postsecondary education.

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MAY 5, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Brown University joins edX. “ Y Combinator MOOC for Tech Startups Attracts Thousands of Views,” says Campus Technology. Not sure why this is called a MOOC. The latest report formerly known as the Sloan Survey of Online Learning has been released.

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DECEMBER 30, 2019

In 2011, the Mozilla Foundation unveiled its “Open Badges Project,” “an effort to make it easy to issue and share digital learning badges across the web.” In 2013, on the heels of “the Year of the MOOC,” Barber released a report titled “An Avalanche is Coming,” calling for the “unbundling” of higher education.

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