Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 6, 2020

Massive Open Online Courses (Sometimes referred to as MOOCs) – MOOCs are readily available courses that are presented online. MOOCs are not an ideal way for most students to learn. MOOCs are available from a variety of sources including Coursera , edX and individual participating universities.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 11, 2017

51Talk (or “China Online Education Group”), China’s leading online education platform and the first from China listed on the NYSE (NYSE: COE), was invited to attend the summit alongside education industry leaders such as Pearson, Amazon, and YouTube.

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EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 7, 2018

Let’s take a look at the some of the innovation in E-learning industry in the last 10 years: The Usage of Smartphones. However, it has taken the e-learning industry by storm. This is the level of vitality of smartphones which makes it necessary for the e-learning industry to introduce mLearning, i.e., mobile learning on a large scale.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

We’d also have access to historical documents from the British Museum – such as notes from an English merchant in Syria in 1739 – and to the prisoner of war archives from the Red Cross. And, if I was stuck for an idea for class, I could access the Social Studies lesson plans at Educade or the 400+ lesson plans at the EDSITEment!

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2019

Instead, MOOC providers see an opportunity in helping medical professionals keep their knowledge and skills up to date after they graduate, a field also known as continuing medical education (CME). The draw to host these courses on MOOC platforms, Butler says, is the chance to reach a wider audience. MOOCs, The New OPM?

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2020

Blockchain technology first appeared as part of cyber currencies like Bitcoin, but a range of industries are now experimenting with the approach, which involves making digital transactions public and permanent in a way that is very difficult to tamper with or counterfeit. the fact that not everyone can access digital technology.

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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. The term MOOC was coined by others in 2008.) Now in its seventh year, MOOCs crossed the 100 million learner mark, recently hitting 101 million.

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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

MAY 31, 2022

It showed the industry, Batra says, that consumers have become agreeable to purchasing edtech. Atin Batra: Let me start by saying that the current public market meltdown has affected all industries, including education. They’re getting privileged access to a uniquely qualified talent pool.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Different industries have contributed to the trend. All of these developments are helpfully disrupting the for-profit college industry that preyed upon low-income students for far too long. In the first wave of online learning, we focused on democratizing access to content.

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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. And major companies and industry groups are increasingly getting into the credentialing game, exemplified by firms such as IBM and Google.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 16, 2020

Here are a few methods for staying current in education technology trends: Read through industry magazines. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are also excellent resources, offering free classes from world-renowned universities. Modern innovations make education accessible to all students and personalized to individual needs.

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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. He left the company in 2014.) Several of the courses Deeplearning.ai

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

And in the past ten years these colleges have been active in offering so-called MOOCs, or massive open online courses, which are free or low-cost courses, usually for no official credit. Ivy League colleges now offer more than 450 of these courses. And some Ivies offer graduate certificate programs online.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The primary trends identified by the team were: adaptive learning, open education resources (OER), gamification and game-based learning, MOOCs, LMS and interoperability, mobile devices, and design. To those working in higher education, some of the trends presented by the team may not have come as a surprise.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Could the rise in MOOC-based and other certificates affect how traditional college degree paths are designed? Many #DLNchat-ters define them as MOOC providers including edX and Coursera and bootcamps such as General Assembly and Kenzie Academy. But first, who are these nontraditional providers?

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2019

When you look at the data—and we still need better data—studies show 80 percent of the people pursuing [bootcamps and MOOC]s already have a bachelor's degree. It's the same graduate degree from the same institution, and it might be a third of the cost. Higher ed is experimenting with trading out the different services and inputs.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2017

As the bubbly enthusiasm in the democratizing power of platforms like Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and Khan Academy quietly wanes, we’ve seen more attention to digital inequity like the homework gap and gender discrimination in coding careers. This was despite the fact that all three schools had the same levels of technology access.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

Also note, the point of this post isn’t to showcase how innovative higher education is but rather to point out innovations that are out there as a kind of survey while also hopefully helping pollinate the possibility of innovation in the upper end of the field and ‘industry’ of education. Competency-Based Learning. .”

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2016

So earlier this summer, researchers at Stanford and Ithaka S+R, a nonprofit education consulting firm, brought together 70 representatives—mostly from academia, but also from government, leading nonprofits and the commercial education technology industry—to discuss some of the hot-button issues surrounding big data in higher education.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Businesses today have to be more agile and have to be able to pivot—access to content needs to be very rapid,” says Lori Bradley, executive vice president for global talent management at PVH Corp, a publicly- traded fashion and apparel company with 35,000 employees. We’re moving toward microlearning—90 minute or shorter sessions.”

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

can’t just say, “Here’s a MOOC, or here’s an online degree, or a 6- to 12-week immersive bootcamp.”. People don’t know how to translate their skills from one industry to another. We have to do better. What are their gaps in relation to the learning goals? It can offer just-in-time tutoring, advising, or mentorship.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2019

In response, schools and companies alike have responded with innovative ideas, but almost all focus on applying technology—like predictive analytics, blended learning, and MOOC-enabled degrees—to student support and instructional services. Yet new technologies often overshadow the equally urgent need for new business models.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2016

When Massive Open Online Courses (or MOOCs) were first introduced, people quickly realized these platforms could help students learn more effectively at their own pace on their own schedule. Instead, they are an extremely convenient way for students to access the information that is critical to their success both inside and outside school.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2018

In the future,” he wrote, “I envision three tiers of education that look a lot like the music industry of today. Customers can now pay a monthly fee to get access to a library of content. This compensation structure may seem common (or to some even fair) in other industries such as entertainment.

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Edsurge

MAY 29, 2018

he’s been using virtual labs to create more realistic learning opportunities for online students—changes he believes will make quality education more authentic and accessible for all learners. Byun talks to EdSurge about how virtual labs promote active, authentic and accessible learning, and the future of online education.

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ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 1, 2019

Over the past few years the education industry has been experiencing a shift away traditional learning environments. One of these practices is known as blended learning and the term that has been garnering some attention within the education industry as of late. But, what is blended learning? Don’t assume they know.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2022

The buzz from employers, meanwhile, is that many industries are changing so fast that workers will need to “upskill” more often —making the economics of asking users to take more courses more viable. In that context, it’s probably natural that online course providers are adopting sales tactics long used by other industries.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

That makes sense in the industrial world in which the measure of achievement and progress in higher education is time [spent in class]. One area that needs a fresh definition to fit the times, he argues, is what it means for higher education to be equitable. And what we'll see is a growing focus on outcomes.”

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Now, a couple with similar industry cred has a similar vision—along with plenty of funding. “We Avida is the husband of Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller, and one of the first board members of the company that helped put the spotlight on massive online open courses, or MOOCs. But they are not done with higher education yet.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

Blockchain, the technology that underpins cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, is now a buzzword in nearly every industry ranging from financing to healthcare. Santana said in Venezuela, where he grew up, the main obstacle people face when trying to complete school is not availability or accessibility, but affordability.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

How Educators Lead With Equity in Mind : New York City teacher, activist and founder of EduColor examines how school leaders can support equity and accessibility for all learners. The Evolution of MOOCs: Six Years Later : Are MOOCs still around? Look at Me!” Higher Ed 11:00 a.m. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7 K-12 11:00 a.m.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Today, online education provides access to great masses of college students in the developing world, with Open Universities in Bangladesh, Iran, Pakistan, South Africa and Turkey together currently enrolling more than 7 million students. Modest by comparison, Western Governors University, the largest in the U.S., During the global crisis, 1.6

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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2022

They envision an ecosystem where learners buy access to courses without enrolling in colleges; where teachers profit directly from their teaching; where students track progress on ever-lengthening credential chains; and where people who invest in the right tokens gather in learning groups to explore topics of mutual interest. That’s a joke.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Meanwhile, PayPal, L’Oreal, AirFrance/KLM and a number of other companies are working with Coursera , a provider of massive open online courses (MOOCs), to give employees access to online instruction. Traditional higher-education institutions and technology companies have a significant role to play as well. Weekly Update.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2021

Course profiles feature statistics about typical industry salaries and list the companies that have hired completers. Practically speaking, we’re working with the non-credit side mostly because they can respond most rapidly to industry,” Alssid says. “We All of the classes offer skills training explicitly linked to employment.

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ViewSonic Education

DECEMBER 27, 2018

We’ve come a long way since Victorian England and are currently in the midst of the fourth digital industrial revolution. Fortunately, there is a vast amount of content already available, such as YouTube videos, MOOCs, multiple choice questions and web-based resources. Children may not have access to technology.

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