Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2019

The online university advertises its video-based online courses as active-learning seminars, so these class sizes are modeled after their counterparts at many traditional face-to-face colleges. Early MOOC experiments had more than 100,000 students per course. This is not an operation where one person does it. It takes a team."

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Somewhere between our collective obsession with predictive analytics and infatuation with adaptive learning, higher education wonks and practitioners are making time to deconstruct the quality attributes of online courses. Does our current quality evaluation ensure a wonderful learning experience? Relationships Matter.

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eSpark

APRIL 7, 2022

Think of it as a cheat sheet to help you learn all you need to know about technology in the classroom! Blended learning combines traditional, in-person learning with digital learning, so that students can experience both forms. MOOC refers to a massive online open course, a type of distance learning.

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Edsurge

MARCH 24, 2017

As a result, we’re pausing to reflect on what we’ve learned from our work, yes, from our readers. 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. Discovering MOOCs in 2012 lit a fire under me. The interview, “ Why U.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

Designing online learning experiences is essential to training employees, mobilizing customers, serving students, building marketing channels, and sustaining business models. But they can also be creating learning apps, museum exhibits, or the latest educational toy. Lesson 2: Ground yourself in the fundamentals of learning science.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2017

Personalized learning is not a product you can buy — it’s a set of strategies that teachers can implement, sometimes with the help of products that are designed to support those strategies. Personalized learning, adaptive learning, potato, potahto. Koedinger is a noted researcher of advanced adaptive learning systems.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

DreamBox Learning (adaptive learning): $130 million. DadaABC (English language learning): $100 million. DadaABC.com (English language learning): $608.9 Knewton (adaptive learning): $182.3 Age of Learning (educational apps): $181.5 Age of Learning (educational apps): $181.5

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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? 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.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2019

based online learning platform provider, raised $103 million in a Series E round. A strong economy and tight labor market may drive increased corporate spending on learning and development for existing workers. Some companies count their accelerator funding into their subsequent seed rounds. Coursera, the Mountain View, Calif.-based

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Because the brain is a complicated organ; it's embedded in social systems, in cultural systems, and it's constantly learning. You can't raise somebody in a closet so that they don't learn a language, right? So actually forcing them to keep going back to things that learned before in an explicit way is really important.

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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.

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Digital Learning Technology MOOC Learning Analytics 60

eSpark

APRIL 7, 2022

Think of it as a cheat sheet to help you learn all you need to know about technology in the classroom! Blended learning combines traditional, in-person learning with digital learning, so that students can experience both forms. MOOC refers to a massive online open course, a type of distance learning.

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Trends MOOC Differentiated Instruction BYOD 52

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). Blended Learning. Asynchronous Learning.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

But there’s hope—the Stanford researcher completed a 500-paper lit review with professors Linda-Darling Hammond and Shelley Goldman to identify five actionable tips to provide equitable digital learning opportunities to low-income students. Educators and Administrators—From the 'Instruct' Newsletter Adaptive learning.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 15, 2015

New applications and technologies are now embedded into practically every aspect of the learning experience. Schools are organizing databases around students that look at multiple performance indicators, and now, more than ever, learning is informed and registered through collections of data points and not just a grade.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2017

But as some disappointed investors have learned last year, the actual market value and performance behind “unicorns” may be as illusory as their nickname. He’s never been a fan of digital textbooks or MOOCs.) These statistics offer a somber reminder that the edtech industry does not produce quick, home run hits.

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Gaggle Speaks

MARCH 25, 2015

Today, Gaggle provides our Safe Classroom Learning Management System and Safety Management products for Google Apps for Education or Office 365 to millions of students who are creating, collaborating and sharing in a safe environment. Lesson learned #1: Eyeballs are not a business model. ” Lesson learned #3: Don’t chase trends.

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EdTech Differentiated Instruction Gamification MOOC 40

Gaggle Speaks

MARCH 25, 2015

Today, Gaggle provides our Safe Classroom Learning Management System and Safety Management products for Google Apps for Education or Office 365 to millions of students who are creating, collaborating and sharing in a safe environment. Lesson learned #1: Eyeballs are not a business model. ” Lesson learned #3: Don’t chase trends.

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EdTech Differentiated Instruction Gamification MOOC 40

Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Online learning, or the teaching formerly knows as “distance learning” Will this keep growing? Skepticism about the quality of online learning could migrate to the general population. And the MOOC numbers look like they’re rising. Educational technology trends.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 8, 2015

This post is actually intended to supplement the “Cycle of Learning Innovation” model that will be publishing tomorrow (7.7.2015), which means this is less about analysis and context and more about the examples. Adaptive learning platforms and learning algorithms. MOOCs, nanodegrees, etc.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

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.”) Arguably, one of the best candidates is the learning management system.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

The tech-wielding entrepreneurial dad and the avante garde, life-hacking mom team-up (you have to) to lead the learning of their own three children using a combination of their personalized attention, and the growth of technology. So self-guided inquiry-based and mobile learning. Adaptive learning apps. So is learning.

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Wired Campus

APRIL 30, 2015

For that, we invented a concept called Learning Gadgets. Learning Gadgets are almost like little apps. If you want to track your learners, if you want to see the progress of your learners, if you want to bring in the information from the quizzes into your learning-management systems, then you have to buy. Young: Thank you.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

A single mom in middle America could learn to code from Google instructor. Unless we carefully examine where we put the paywalls and how we cultivate diverse student bodies in our online learning experiences, we risk transposing the same patterns of inequity that have plagued in-person education into our digital classrooms.

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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? ” If Credits Don’t Reflect What I Learn, What Does? This Mongolian Teenager Aced a MOOC.

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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.

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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. The learn-to-code company has raised $1.19

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

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. “Everyone should learn to code.”

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Technology Education Microsoft Industry 89

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

” Via The Indiana Gazette : “Parents and other school district residents reminded the Indiana Area school board on Monday that their dissent of the Summit Learning program hasn’t waned, even though the administration scaled back the program and put it on ‘opt-in’ status for the 2018–19 school year.”

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Lenovo Education Facebook MOOC 52

Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2018

Congratulations, STEM folks and learn-to-code evangelists, for being featured in President Trump’s list of his 2017 accomplishments. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Subscription boxes for teachers are somehow “ personalized learning.” You must be so proud. Has it closed already?”

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Hack Education

MAY 26, 2016

This keynote was delivered today at the Irish Learning Technology Association's annual conference, EdTech2016, in Dublin. I’m not sure we talk often enough about technology-enhanced learning in these terms – as a political not merely pedagogical practice. The full slidedeck is available here. To devise new rules.

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Conference Course MOOC Technology 64

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.”

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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. Via Techcrunch : “ Lilwil ’s personalized learning engine teaches teachers how to teach.” Accreditation and Certification. million total.

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Education Pearson Report MOOC 53

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

” DeVos visited my hometown of Casper, Wyoming to give this speech where she spoke at the Woods Learning Center. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ California Should Watch Arkansas Process for Creating New Online Institution,” says Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill. million total.

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Education ProctorU Company Report 53

Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2018

” – “This includes how long-distance learning programs are defined.” ” 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.

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Education Pearson Company Blackboard 43

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

In 2012, Pearson, Cengage Learning, and Macmillan Higher Education sued Boundless Learning, claiming that the open education textbook startup had “stolen the creative expression of their authors and editors, violating their intellectual-property rights.” Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.

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Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

” 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. The video learning company has previously raised $1.57

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