Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

News that Arizona State University and edX have archived 10 of their 14 Global Freshman Academy courses raises questions about the viability and purpose of credit-eligible MOOCs. She suggests that first-year students may need more academic and social supports and wraparound services than a la carte MOOCs provide. And yet, only 0.47

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Edsurge

JULY 23, 2021

Price is in part a measure of how much others value a college degree, how much it’s admired and how effective it is in securing social capital—giving graduates access to powerful networks, including often seamless entry into top positions in the job market. The value of college is hard to measure.

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EdTech4Beginners

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

When people talk about the future of technology in education, they picture every student having access to a computer or a tablet; they see paperless rooms where technology trained teachers lead the class. With most students having access to a smartphone, the ability for students to collaborate and produce short films is effortless.

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Digital Promise

MAY 20, 2016

This gap between the need and available educational services has prompted calls for innovative ways to improve access to quality educational resources. First, the authentic design opportunity to develop instructional materials for adult learners motivated many to participate in the MOOC. The Impact.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2018

Unfortunately, most massive open online course (MOOC) platforms still feel like drafty lecture halls instead of intimate seminar rooms. I think we’ve seen this reemergence—unintentionally—in the form of MOOCs. I typically build MOOCs, but this spring, I designed an online program for a cohort of 16 nonprofit leaders.

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2020

In my 2014 book “ MOOCS Essentials ,” I reflected on each aspect of the residential learning process and how developers of massive open online courses were trying to replicate those experiences virtually, or come up with ways to keep students engaged without direct teacher-student interaction.

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2019

MOOCs, shorthand for massive open online courses, have been widely critiqued for their miniscule completion rates. This does not necessarily make MOOCs a failure. That’s a far cry from five years ago, when only 5 percent of the students were finishing the MOOCs I was designing. Use the power of peer pressure.

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2020

But over the last 10 years we’ve deployed online learning at a massive scale in K-12 schools, colleges, through large-scale MOOCs, etc. In MOOCs, we found that students whose parents didn’t earn a BA were more likely to drop out than students whose parents have a BA. And the emerging picture is much different than those NSD findings.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 16, 2020

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are also excellent resources, offering free classes from world-renowned universities. Technology is becoming so prominent in education that it’s now a study option for aspiring teachers. Those majoring in technology education will study technological systems and design their own.

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Mark Smithers

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Thanks to Kate Bowles ( @KateMfD ) for sending me a link to an open Coursesites web site (free registration) that has been created for the MOOC discussion at the forthcoming Universities Australia 2014 conference. There are six questions in the discussion area; these are: What have been the most significant impacts of MOOCs?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2019

“The digitization of healthcare with more data and machine learning has created a skill set that many people didn’t study in school.” 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).

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EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 7, 2018

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). MOOC is not a new concept in the e-learning industry. It offers a large number of students access to study high-quality courses online through video streaming. Many prestigious universities such as Harvard offers MOOC at minimal or no cost. However, some courses are chargeable.

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2018

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. The MOOC is an extension of the on-campus course—it was really just making our on-campus experience public and open for anyone to follow,” says Barba.

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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. Dellinger, dLRN , recently sat down with Joosten to ask her about the results of the study. We need to move.to

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2020

The initiative aims to study whether and how decentralized digital ledgers can give students and workers more control over their academic and job records and improve the flow of data among schools, colleges and employers, leaders told EdSurge in February. the fact that not everyone can access digital technology.

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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

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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MOOC Coursera Trends Survey 205

TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

The definition of asynchronous learning helps us understand the need for asynchronous access to this content, especially when this access is not through a dated university learning management system, but something more authentic to the student, maybe even accessed on their own mobile devices. Open Curriculum.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 31, 2016

Learning has fundamentally changed with the evolution of the Internet and other technologies that allow for ubiquitous access to information and knowledge. These courses allow for personalization of studies as students explore topics of their choosing. OCW courses are available under open licenses, such as Creative Commons.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Research studies don’t provide strong evidence that synchronous learning universally leads to better student engagement and learning outcomes than asynchronous learning or vice versa. To increase equity, you should set up your asynchronous learning environments to maximize accessibility.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2020

Major employers are embracing libraries of video and MOOC courses, tuition-assistance programs for online courses, and bootcamps focused on tech skills (which have themselves moved online). But that assumes a positive experience, and that is something that remains to be seen and needs to be studied.

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ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 1, 2019

Pupils can continue their studies away from the classroom using the environment too. In order to reduce the amount of new content a teacher needs to make, YouTube videos, MOOC s, multiple choice questions and web-based resources can be combined. What are some of the challenges faced with blended learning?

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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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Digital Learning MOOC Education Learning 118

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. That means that the students then get to access that content asynchronously on their time. I'm very worried.

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Edsurge

MAY 31, 2022

They’re getting privileged access to a uniquely qualified talent pool. Just look at Fiveable, who’s helping students across the world create communities with virtual study rooms, or Aktiv Learning, who’s improving outcomes in STEM courses for university students. For edtech companies, on the other hand, this situation is a huge boon.

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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 18, 2019

In addition to the language generated by the students themselves in their projects, I found that a huge amount of English was being generated as students shared tips, accessed online guides and built a common understanding. Learning English in Minecraft: a case study on language competences and classroom practices. IrvSpanish.

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 3, 2016

FutureLearn , a social learning company owned by The Open University, announced this week that students taking some of its massive open online courses, or MOOCS, will have the opportunity to earn course credits toward degrees, including MBAs, as well as professional qualifications and certifications. Here in the U.S.,

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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. Then if you can afford it and can get to the school and study face to face we still have the old MBA credential. So the innovation is not happening in undergrad?

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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 Thinking Stick

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

English teachers should study and understand how writing has changed over the years and have students practice writing in mediums that apply to 2014. Are they studying new approaches to learning such as gamification and reverse instruction. Blogs, Tweets, Status Updates, images and videos.

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Gamification MOOC Guidelines Report 81

TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 5, 2021

Asynchronous learning generally uses technology that enables students to access course materials on their own. While some classes might enable students to study similar content that’s personalized for them at their own pace, untethered from the rest of the class. through a live twitter chat or video conferencing).

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Linways Technologies

MARCH 31, 2020

Technological storms have driven the world in such a way that extensive collection of study materials on diverse courses are easily available at our fingertips. This sets institutional education apart from the MOOCs, or online course delivery tools. This helps to keep them accessible for the students. The answer is very simple.

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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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Mark Smithers

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Thanks to Kate Bowles ( @KateMfD ) for sending me a link to an open Coursesites web site (free registration) that has been created for the MOOC discussion at the forthcoming Universities Australia 2014 conference. There are six questions in the discussion area; these are: What have been the most significant impacts of MOOCs?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Some education experts have already penned that the vote is likely to pass , potentially raising the cost of accessing learning and student-success tools, prioritizing commercial and entertainment traffic over education and research, and slowing the pace of research and innovation.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

If they are right, it would mean short-circuiting the famous “10,000-hour rule” based on studies by education researcher Anders Ericsson and popularized by bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell in his book “Outliers.” About once a day, all the students gather with a human instructor for a brief in-person lesson known as “study hall.”

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