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The primary trends identified by the team were: adaptivelearning, open education resources (OER), gamification and game-based learning, MOOCs, LMS and interoperability, mobile devices, and design. Delivering these models to a differentiated population of educators and learners requires an adaptive approach.
Most authoring software also integrates assessment tools, testing learningoutcomes. Online learning is not just another edtech product, but an innovative teaching practice." 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.
Unfortunately, there are all sorts of metrics that have become popularized in the world of higher ed that have little to do with outcomes for students. Early MOOC experiments had more than 100,000 students per course. Why isn’t Minerva’s university putting its new tech into practice?
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Adaptive courseware. Such are the tools that many education entrepreneurs are building—and which educators are increasingly adopting—to improve outcomes for students. We’ve learned so much from the wit, energy and thoughtfulness from the first two cohorts of students. This Mongolian Teenager Aced a MOOC. Open” textbooks.
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, adaptivelearning, potato, potahto.
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Freedman: I love where you started with the criticism of the MOOCs. I mean, MOOCs aren’t learning platforms, they’re distribution platforms. So my concept is, let’s get away from this framework, and think about this in terms of learningoutcomes and pedagogy, and get rid of the classic schedule.
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