Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2019

MOOCs, shorthand for massive open online courses, have been widely critiqued for their miniscule completion rates. Industry reports and instructional designers alike typically report that only between 5 to 15 percent of students who start free open online courses end up earning a certificate. Use the power of peer pressure.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Students can communicate peer-to-peer and also engage instructors directly in text, voice, and video, recorded for later access or run immediately in real-time. Like much of edtech, research results can be ambiguous, with some saying it’s marginally better than conventional classroom teaching , while others report impressive results.

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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. But that’s not the same as saying that employers no longer value college credentials, despite overhyped media reports that employers are “throwing out” degrees.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The course will cost $49 per month and will be hosted on Coursera, a platform for massive open online courses, or MOOCs, that Ng co-founded in 2012. (He offers through Coursera, which Ng teaches, have had wide appeal on the MOOC website. In June, EdSurge reported that three Coursera’s top 10 most popular courses were taught by him.

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2018

In Barba’s class, in-person active learning involves students working through examples and coding problems with peers in Jupyter. There, students enrolled in the online or in-person course can access a discussion board about the course to ask questions or see how others got through a certain challenge.

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2018

A report titled “Making Digital Learning Work” by Arizona State University found that online courses saved institutions up to 50 percent on average credit hour costs, but the study only looked at large-scale efforts. One of the larger questions during the chat was about scaling for cost efficiency.

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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. The MOOC backlash. Of course I have to start with MOOCs. The MOOC backlash started in earnest in 2013. MOOC providers will keep on refining them. Introduction.

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techieMusings

MAY 19, 2016

Sophomores have the opportunity to spend a period of their day learning through a MOOC of their choosing. Their MOOC worktime is an assigned period within their school day. When students are in their MOOC course, they all report to the open learning space, as in the pictures below. Math Rotation Model.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2018

For example, screencasting apps, which create the video equivalent of a screengrab, now let teachers highlight specific passages in a student’s work as part of the film. Indeed, in the videos, teachers typically use a casual, conversational style, which students see as authentic and accessible. Sign up here for our newsletter.

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Hack Education

MAY 6, 2020

Although we have made incredible strides in expanding access to education over the course of the past century, that access has always been unevenly distributed as are the conflicts and crises that undermine education systems and educational justice everywhere. " It happens here in California, for example.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2021

“They want to serve in their own locales, but their markets need to go farther,” says Holly Zanville, a research professor and co-director of the Program on Skills, Credentials, and Workforce Policy at George Washington University who recently published a commissioned report about Unmudl. Who Benefits?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

As EdSurge reported in October 2017, those programs are now creating a situation where learners are accumulating more credentials from different providers. A person’s records are at hand whenever he or she is, for example, looking for a new job. Krishnan said she thinks students are keen on the idea.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2017

Harvard reportedly spends $75,000-$150,000 building each new MOOC, most of which goes towards video production costs. For example, in this video , Professor Adam Grant uses a story from “The Lion King” to explain a concept from his book. You can check out his own Veritasium channel on YouTube for some great examples.

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Learning with 'e's

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Examples of cognitive technologies include computer vision , deep learning, natural language processing , speech recognition, and humanised robotics. Chatbots currently exhibit limitations, especially when you ask them something they can't access in their databases. There is no cognitive component however.

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techieMusings

MAY 19, 2016

Sophomores have the opportunity to spend a period of their day learning through a MOOC of their choosing. Their MOOC worktime is an assigned period within their school day. When students are in their MOOC course, they all report to the open learning space, as in the pictures below. Math Rotation Model.

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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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MindShift

MAY 22, 2018

This story about video grading was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. For example, screencasting apps, which create the video equivalent of a screengrab, now let teachers highlight specific passages in a student’s work as part of the film.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

” 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. The LMS giant Blackboard celebrated its 20th anniversary this year. (I

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Making Smart Decisions in a Crowded Edtech Market : EdSurge’s very own Leonard Medlock (Director, Concierge) will pry open some examples of districts working with Concierge and discuss strategies around how to articulate challenges, find and choose technology and successfully pilot selected tools. EdSurge 4:00 p.m. EdSurge 9:30 a.m.

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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. The MOOC backlash. Of course I have to start with MOOCs. The MOOC backlash started in earnest in 2013. MOOC providers will keep on refining them. Introduction.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Usman Khaliq was an engineering student in northeastern Pakistan when he took his first MOOC. complete multiple MOOCs. complete multiple MOOCs. MOOCs were a vetting mechanism for Usman, allowing both his talent and grit to rise to attention and connecting him to an opportunity halfway around the world.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Instead, Learnmetrics aggregates data that a district might have on, for example, student performance and translates the information into actionable metrics. report cards have by and large stayed the same over the last century—there’s not always good feedback, and it’s too late once bad grades get in. But entrepreneurs behind Comprend.io

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 24, 2016

I also asked each person to specify their role concerning technology, and there were a lot of different roles: someone running a distance learning program, another in charge of a problem-based learning initiative, a prof looking for good examples of technology in liberal education, a provost to whom several tech departments reported, and more.

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The Principal of Change

JANUARY 12, 2017

I would love your feedback and any examples of classrooms doing this already.). In a conversation I was having with a group today, I threw out the idea of “creating something of value” Sites like etsy.com , are an opportunity to sell things have an access to a large market, but what makes something sell?

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Edsurge

JULY 23, 2021

I recently came upon a pair of contradictory articles about what colleges will be charging for tuition next academic year: One reporting that Ohio State University found reasons last month to nearly double its online tuition , and another noting that some colleges are in a race to lower tuition. The value of college is hard to measure.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

We’re hoping you don’t see the report as something you read once and file away, but that you start using it to really start stimulating conversation.”. NMC/CoSN Horizons Report: K-12 Edition). Trends affecting the adoption of technology in schools.

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

For example, this story from the School Library Journal : “ Charter Schools , Segregation , and School Library Access.” Via The Hechinger Report : “Most immigrants outpace Americans when it comes to education – with one big exception.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”).

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

The hope is that if what would normally take 10,000 hours could be shortened to 1,000, and be done via methods that are more affordable and accessible, many more people can become experts. One example is at Duke University, where its Learning Innovation center has built a tool called Nudge.

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Mistakengoal.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Maybe we can do that by trying to list some of the big ideas and an accessible entry point or summary of each idea. Daniel Bell’s 1973 book The Coming of Post-Industrial Society is a classic example of this work. Friedman and the rest of the uncritical MOOC cheerleaders) or dystopian views.

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Mistakengoal.com

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Maybe we can do that by trying to list some of the big ideas and an accessible entry point or summary of each idea. Daniel Bell’s 1973 book The Coming of Post-Industrial Society is a classic example of this work. Friedman and the rest of the uncritical MOOC cheerleaders) or dystopian views.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

This is part eleven of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” In May, venture capitalist and former securities analyst Mary Meeker released her annual “Internet Trends” report. Much of what Meeker says in this year’s report about education is placed under her category “gaming.”

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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. Where would you plot the Segway, for example? (In So here is the consensus from the past twelve years of the Horizon Report for higher education.

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Learning with 'e's

DECEMBER 7, 2015

My usual response to such a claim is that children with special educational needs are a classic example of technology improving learning. Without adaptive technology, many disabled children could not access certain types of education and would be marginalised from learning. Let's start with widening access. Unported License.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

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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Bryan Alexander

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Revolution sees 2012 as a critical year (“the Magic Year”) when forces really came together, including, but not limited to, MOOCs. Access to higher education is really Revolution ‘s central theme, including how to use technology to expand access without breaking anyone’s bank.

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ProfHacker

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Justin Reich and Mizuko (Mimi) Ito have recently published a report entitled From Good Intentions to Real Outcomes: Equity by Design in Learning Technologies. The report is available for download without monetary charge and without collection of your personal data. If you don’t care about equity in edtech.

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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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