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Somewhere between our collective obsession with predictive analytics and infatuation with adaptivelearning, higher education wonks and practitioners are making time to deconstruct the quality attributes of online courses. New technologies promise a more adaptive and personalized learning experience.
First the numbers: In the past year, we have published more than 300 articles about the shifting trends in higher ed, education technology and digital learning. Don’t be a stranger in year two—here’s the team below (plus each of our favorite articles so far) to help break the ice. What’s my favorite EdSurge HigherEd article?
My classmates from Stanford’s Learning Design and Technology master’s program have gone on to design for big brands like Airbnb and Google as well as edtech upstarts including the African Leadership University, General Assembly, Osmo and Udacity. Start with the “big four” that most people have heard of: Coursera, Udacity, Udemy, and EdX.
But how do they compete with resources like MOOCs and OERs that have made high quality course content from respected university professors available for free? When students started migrating towards used textbooks, rentals, MOOCs and OER due to the high prices of printed textbooks, it affected the revenues of traditional book publishers.
But we’ve been disheartened to see a lack of interest in making that clear distinction, as evidenced most recently by the comments of a number of our colleagues in a recent Campus Technology article. Personalized learning, adaptivelearning, potato, potahto.
Today, we’d like to call out nine of our contributors in particular, who’ve written the most popular articles of 2016. Amongst our standout articles and the themes they evoke: a Stanford University researcher on edtech and equity, an entrepreneur on growth mindset, and a look into Chromebooks by the president of a iBoss Cybersecurity.
” Re-reading that article now makes me cringe. I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow. ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”)
” The article goes on to point out some examples of this kind of dilemma, and how certain businesses responded. Adaptivelearning platforms and learning algorithms. MOOCs, nanodegrees, etc. Rapid change in the demands for media forms (e.g., text to infographics to eCards to podcasts).
So self-guided inquiry-based and mobile learning. Adaptivelearning apps. Learning simulations. Learning here becomes less about curriculum and more about possibility. The cost of starting a company has gone down because there are online tools you can use for free. I can see that happening with school.
Via The New York Times : “ Rolling Stone Settles Lawsuit Over Debunked Campus Rape Article.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via the Coursera blog : “New mobile features: Transcripts, notes, and reminders.” The adaptivelearning company has raised $16 million total.
I’d hardly know where to begin in writing one, but I want to open this particular article – one that focuses, in part, on the whole “everyone should learn to code” craze – recognizing his great contribution to educational computing as well as his loss. Read Mindstorms. ” ). Only “1.86
Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Class Central : “ TU Delft Students Can Earn Credit For MOOCs From Other Universities.” The “adaptivelearning” company has raised $23.5
Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). The English-language-learning company has raised $608 million total. Oh, there’s a raft of privacy-violating stuff in almost every section in this article, I reckon.
Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). In related MOOC news, there's more on “ nanodegrees ” in the “credentialing” section below. Because up ’til now, MOOCs were the most brilliant data mining app ever.). But how do they compare to the old one and the ACT ?”
Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ California Should Watch Arkansas Process for Creating New Online Institution,” says Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill. ” According to WCET , “Developing Effective Courses Using AdaptiveLearning Begins with Proper Alignment.”
Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via The Washington Post : “ A South Carolina school district just abolished snow days – and will make students learn online.” ” JFC.
The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, MOOCs are, no surprise, their own entry on this long list of awfulness.
Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. There’s an article in the venture philanthropy section below about how private student loans are being pitched as “impact investing.” ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”).
” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Here’s The Chronicle headline from then : “Professor Leaves a MOOC in Mid-Course in Dispute Over Teaching.”) Good thing I never did anything in those MOOCs, otherwise I'd be losing my work. Remember Richard McKenzie? ” asks Edsurge.
Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Although the shooting is a local story, I am putting many of the articles here in the national section because, over a week later, it is still very much in the national headlines. National) Education Politics. ” Of course.
” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). “ OpenStax , Knewton introduce adaptivelearning into OER.” .” Here’s the WaPo headline : “Girls outscore boys on inaugural national test of technology, engineering skills.” Data, Privacy, and Surveillance.
Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news from Edsurge in the “job training” section below. National) Education Politics. ” Don’t worry.
Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “That Hilarious Tweet About an Instructor’s Big Mistake? ” The first article claims that “The college lecture is dying. ” There’s more research on for-profits in the research section below.
” asks WaPo’s Valerie Strauss, before reprinting an article by UVA professor Dan Willingham.). Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Online education pioneer Tony Bates asks “ What is online learning ?” ” (“What do we really know about the value of prekindergarten?”
Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via George Veletsianos : “A large-scale study of Twitter Use in MOOCs.” ” Research finds there’s a " global achievement gap in MOOCs. Via Campus Technology : “ Harvard Tailoring the MOOC Experience With AdaptiveLearning.”
Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). The adaptivelearning company has raised $4.57 “Examining ethical and privacy issues surrounding learning analytics ” by Tony Bates. .” From this article, I learned that Sal Khan earns more than $540,000 a year. million total.
” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “ Coursera ’s New Strategy Takes Inspiration From Netflix – and LinkedIn.” ” There’s more MOOC-related research in the research section below. Adeptemy , an adaptivelearning company, has raised $3.48
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