Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2020

It seems certain that more professional learning will happen outside of traditional institutions and campuses – especially if colleges fail to adapt. Learning is increasingly happening in the workplace, or “ in the flow of work.”

Learning 213

Learning Digital Badges E-rate MOOC 213

Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

As online course platforms proliferate, institutions of all shapes and sizes realize that they’ll need to translate content into digital forms. Designing online learning experiences is essential to training employees, mobilizing customers, serving students, building marketing channels, and sustaining business models.

Udemy 163

Udemy Course Coursera MOOC 163

eSpark

APRIL 7, 2022

MOOC refers to a massive online open course, a type of distance learning. This means that the course takes place online, is free, and anyone can participate. MOOCs are generally prevalent in higher education, but are starting to be used at the high school level as well.

Trends 97

Trends MOOC Differentiated Instruction BYOD 97

Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2019

Coursera, Andela, Degreed, A Cloud Guru and Lambda School all offer courses tailored for people who want to pick up new professional skills (usually involving programming and computer science). A strong economy and tight labor market may drive increased corporate spending on learning and development for existing workers.

EdTech 166

EdTech Coursera Knewton Analysis 166

Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 2, 2019

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? It offers unlimited access to digital textbooks and course materials for $119.99 Develop Adaptive Learning Platforms. a semester.

OER 16

OER Education MOOC Adaptive Learning 16

Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

DreamBox Learning (adaptive learning): $130 million. DadaABC (English language learning): $100 million. Knewton (adaptive learning): $182.3 Age of Learning (educational apps): $181.5 DreamBox Learning (adaptive learning): $175.6 Vive la MOOC révolution.

Trends 96

Trends MOOC Company Edmodo 96

Edsurge

MARCH 24, 2017

Discovering MOOCs in 2012 lit a fire under me. But the article that resonated the most was Amy Ahearn’s: The Future of Online Learning Is Offline: What Strava Can Teach Digital Course Designers. Try building a MOOC to meet that challenge—I’d love to read about it! The interview, “ Why U.

MOOC 77

MOOC Learning Trends EdTech 77

eSpark

APRIL 7, 2022

MOOC refers to a massive online open course, a type of distance learning. This means that the course takes place online, is free, and anyone can participate. MOOCs are generally prevalent in higher education, but are starting to be used at the high school level as well.

Trends 52

Trends MOOC Differentiated Instruction BYOD 52

Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2017

After pointing out that many of the folks who are investigating “personalized learning”—including both MindWires and EdSurge—have received grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the article goes on to quote grantee after grantee saying variations of the same thing: “Meh. Personalized learning, adaptive learning, potato, potahto.

Personalized Learning 60

Personalized Learning Learning Adaptive Learning MOOC 60

Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2017

And so, even though students hate cumulative exams, those are the ones that actually force them to keep encountering the material repeatedly over the course of a year in order to make sure that it gets in there. So actually forcing them to keep going back to things that learned before in an explicit way is really important.

Training 143

Training Flipped Classroom Study Trends 143

TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 20, 2015

The following infographic/cheat sheet from @goboundless outlines some of the larger scale (eLearning) or controversial (MOOC) movements, as well as those on the rise (1:1, personalized learning), and providing working definitions for each. Massive Online Open Courses (MOOC). Massive Online Open Courses (MOOC).

CMS 40

CMS Technology MOOC Gamification 40

Edsurge

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.

Digital Learning 60

Digital Learning Technology MOOC Learning Analytics 60

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Educators and Administrators—From the 'Instruct' Newsletter Adaptive learning. Personalized learning. Blended learning. SLACK ON: MOOCs get knocked for lacking the intimate discussions and organic student interactions that accompany college classes IRL.

Chromebook 60

Chromebook EdTech Industry MOOC 60

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2017

He’s never been a fan of digital textbooks or MOOCs.) bought for $75 million in 2014 by Pluralsight, which offers more than 5,000 online courses. Particularly disappointing to Greenfield are “adaptive learning” tools that aim to deliver customized content to learners based on data collected from their performance.

EdTech 60

EdTech lynda.com Education Company 60

TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 15, 2015

It’s not simply about better assessment; it’s about empowering better learning. The first step is, of course, designing and building better systems to capture this sort of data, which really isn’t being done at scale. In fact, they don’t seem too concerned with providing insights to learners at this point, which is a shame.

Assessment 40

Assessment MOOC EdTech Data 40

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.”) To believe that would require, of course, that we overlook the role that the major technology platforms – Google, Facebook, and Amazon – play in education.

Technology 63

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 63

Wired Campus

APRIL 30, 2015

So we started Versal to really allow anybody to create online courses, assignments, homework assignments, and so on, and really make it as easy as it is to build a PowerPoint. For that, we invented a concept called Learning Gadgets. Learning Gadgets are almost like little apps. You can create a timeline.

E-rate 28

E-rate Company Course MOOC 28

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Online courses helped kick off a movement promising that your zipcode no longer had to determine the quality of education you received. A single mom in middle America could learn to code from Google instructor. In the first wave of online learning, we focused on democratizing access to content.

Coursera 140

Coursera MOOC Education Khan Academy 140

Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2016

We argued about adaptive-learning technologies or interviewed senior advisors in the Department of Education, and wrote essays asking, “ Do virtual environments hinder democratic participation? ” “ Why adaptive learning? ” This Mongolian Teenager Aced a MOOC. Now He Wants to Widen Their Impact.

Adaptive Learning 99

Adaptive Learning MOOC Trends Course 99

Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2016

“But adaptive-learning technologies are bullsh*t, c’mon,” one of us would say. I see your perspective, but think about it this way,” another might respond, “Your dystopian visions of tech mean less when you think about the millions of students who aren’t learning now. If you’re an interested student, you can learn more and.

Adaptive Learning 60

Adaptive Learning Facebook Conference MOOC 60

Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

” But of course, that’s not quite true: my first introduction to Papert's work was actually a decade earlier, when I sat at an Apple II and taught a Turtle how to move about the screen. .” ” This argument is, of course, ridiculously daft, as “the liberal arts” has historically included math and science.

Technology 89

Technology Education Microsoft Industry 89

Hack Education

APRIL 14, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via the Coursera blog : “New mobile features: Transcripts, notes, and reminders.” " It’s lovely to see the big innovation from the MOOC startups in 2017 involves the learning management system. Then Deeper Questions Emerged.”

Education 44

Education E-rate MOOC Data 44

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

And one for-profit story is in the Betteridge’s Law of Headlines section because of course. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Class Central : “ TU Delft Students Can Earn Credit For MOOCs From Other Universities.” The “adaptive learning” company has raised $23.5

Lenovo 52

Lenovo Education Facebook MOOC 52

Hack Education

MAY 26, 2016

That pronoun “we,” of course, is used in turn both broadly and narrowly, to include and exclude. Yeats’ poem “Easter, 1916,” of course – but opted, thanks to Donald Trump, to invoke a different, more apocalyptic Yeats. So the title of this talk is “The Rough Beasts of Ed-Tech” instead.

Conference 64

Conference Course MOOC Technology 64

Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2018

Of course, the US can’t let the UK lead for too long when it comes to terrible people and terrible ideas in education. ” “Special bracelets” are, of course, ed-tech. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). The English-language-learning company has raised $608 million total.

Education 43

Education Company Blackboard Kaplan 43

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Just a few weeks after Daphne Koller ’s announcement she was leaving the MOOC startup she co-founded, Coursera unveiled “ Coursera for Business ” this week, marking its pivot from “democratizing higher ed” to “ training corporate employees.”

Education 53

Education Coursera Elsevier MOOC 53

Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). In related MOOC news, there's more on “ nanodegrees ” in the “credentialing” section below. “ Blackboard Partners with Fishtree for Personalized Learning,” says Campus Technology. But how do they compare to the old one and the ACT ?”

Education 53

Education Pearson Report MOOC 53

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

That’s not the story that DeVos wants to tell, of course.). Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ California Should Watch Arkansas Process for Creating New Online Institution,” says Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill. Carnegie Learning has acquired Globaloria. million total.

Education 53

Education ProctorU Company Report 53

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. Rafter, a course material provider that was an early advocate of and provider for this bundling of textbooks and tuition, closed its doors in 2016 , having raised more than $86 million.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

Humphrey testified that he hired Hubbard on a $7,500-per-month consulting contract to connect him to legislative leaders in other states, as Edgenuity tried to sell digital courses.” ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). “Should Your Online Course Sound Like ‘Serial’? .”)

Education 49

Education MOOC Company Report 49

Hack Education

JANUARY 19, 2018

” WV is West Virginia , of course. ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news in the job training section below. Of course, Harvard doesn’t keep quiet about anything, does it.). .” (State and Local) Education Politics. ” The chain: KIPP.

Education 44

Education Elsevier MOOC Knewton 44

Hack Education

MAY 20, 2016

Education Department said this week it will make Pell Grants available to 10,000 high school students who are enrolled in courses at 44 colleges.” ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” (Teachers, of course, have long been exempted from overtime.). ” Via NPR : “The U.S.

Education 46

Education Pearson Report Company 46

Hack Education

JULY 27, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news from Edsurge in the “job training” section below. There’s more MOOC news from Edsurge in the “job training” section below. ” ( Not mentioned : Penn was one of the very first investors in Coursera.).

Education 43

Education MOOC Coursera E-rate 43

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

” Of course. ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). The “ invisible ” “adaptive learning” company has raised $38.7 Alphabet is, of course, the parent company of Google. Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ Ashford U. million total.

Education 47

Education Company Data Elsevier 47

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “That Hilarious Tweet About an Instructor’s Big Mistake? ” “ Adaptive learning spending balloons to $41M since 2013,” Education Dive claims. Almost Certainly Fake.”

Education 46

Education Broadband Company Data 46

Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2017

Via EdSource : “ Cal State drops intermediate algebra as requirement to take some college-level math courses.” ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “As In-Person Bootcamps Falter, Codecademy Introduces Paid Online Options.” ” Make them learn to code , of course.

Khan Academy 46

Khan Academy Elsevier Education MOOC 46

Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

” The Trump Administration is calling it “ restoring Internet freedom ,” because of f **g course. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Online education pioneer Tony Bates asks “ What is online learning ?” a month.). .” ” Oh.

Education 47

Education E-rate Company Kaplan 47