The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Join me today, Wednesday, September 26th, for a one-hour live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar on the "true history" of the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) with Dave Cormier, Alec Couros, Stephen Downes, Rita Kop, Inge de Waard, and Carol Yeager. His educational journey started in 1998 teaching little children to speak English.

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EdTechSandyK

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Notes from MOOCs for Professional Development Presentation at TCEA 2015 Dr. Kay Abernathy, Lamar University [link] Lamar University sponsored the MOOC on Social Media Communication Tools for Educators which Dr. Abernathy facilitated. You can build up to five MOOCs for free on this platform. link] What is a MOOC?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2020

Integrating Learning and Work in Service of Adult Learners Adult learners are typically driven by career-related motivations: according to one analysis, 70 percent of adult learners say that gaining skills and knowledge directly related to the workplace is essential when choosing where to enroll.

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Digital Badges Coursera Learning Industry 214

Edsurge

MAY 4, 2022

Last year marked the first time that the majority of new courses launched by Coursera weren’t from universities, according to analysis by Dhawal Shah, founder of the MOOC discovery platform Class Central. Entry-level industry certificates are receiving a lot of attention these days.

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Coursera Industry MOOC Company 153

Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2019

In this analysis, EdSurge counts all venture investments in U.S. Our analysis excludes companies whose primary business is to offer loans and happens to serve students (like Social Finance, which raised $500 million earlier this year). Our analysis for the first half of 2019 only looks at U.S.

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EdTech Coursera Knewton Analysis 167

techieMusings

MAY 19, 2016

Sophomores have the opportunity to spend a period of their day learning through a MOOC of their choosing. Their MOOC worktime is an assigned period within their school day. When students are in their MOOC course, they all report to the open learning space, as in the pictures below. Math Rotation Model. Conclusion.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 8, 2012

He also works on the design of information/reasoning systems for intelligence analysis. His current research is focused on the use of different media to teach and communicate mathematics to diverse audiences.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2019

2018 Edtech Funding Breakdown In this annual year-end analysis, EdSurge counts all venture investments in U.S. Once upon a time, she notes, “MOOCs were supposed to displace higher education. Now many MOOCs are embedded within these institutions.

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EdTech Company Industry Edmodo 167

Bryan Alexander

JUNE 30, 2021

” There is also some good, early commentary and analysis from EdSurge and Trace Urdan. As Paul Fain put it , “MOOCs have become OPMs.” ” Well-placed source on 2U's acquisition of edX for $800M — "It simply formalizes what we knew: MOOCs have become OPMs." " [link].

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MOOC Coursera Analysis Online Learning 92

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

The Evolution of MOOCs: Six Years Later : Are MOOCs still around? Now, coding, data analytics and analysis are taking humanities subjects like history and literature in a whole new direction. Higher Ed 11:00 a.m. Dhawal Shah, CEO and founder of Class Central, has spent the last six years tracking them. Higher Ed 11:00 a.m.

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MOOC EdTech Company Trends 113

Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2018

As MOOCs surged in popularity from 2012 to 2015, universities, nonprofits, schools and companies all jumped into the game of developing online courses, and giving them away—often at the promise of no cost—to the world. Today, few higher-ed institutions are able to sustain the ongoing costs associated with producing and running MOOCs.

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Online Learning MOOC lynda.com Industry 86

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Some nonprofit colleges that produce MOOCs, or Massive Open Online Courses, have experimented with different production methods. One tradeoff is that because the videos are more expensive to produce, updating them might come at a higher cost as well.

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Course Khan Academy MOOC Trends 128

Wired Campus

APRIL 30, 2015

The hype around the free online courses called MOOCs has drawn millions of students, who are all essentially part of a teaching experiment of unprecedented scale. ” The report is the work of the MOOC Research Initiative, funded with more than $800,000 in grant support by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 1, 2019

A course that implements the relevant learning science but is completely missing a relationship with a caring faculty member (looking at you, MOOCs) is going to fall short of its potential.

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 18, 2016

Jon McGee’s Breakpoint (2015, Johns Hopkins) offers a very solid, useful, and accessible analysis of current trends in higher education. The discussion of digital changes (76-82) touches on high points (cost, commodification, MOOCs), but comes to no conclusions or recommendations.

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 18, 2016

Jon McGee’s Breakpoint (2015, Johns Hopkins) offers a very solid, useful, and accessible analysis of current trends in higher education. The discussion of digital changes (76-82) touches on high points (cost, commodification, MOOCs), but comes to no conclusions or recommendations.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2017

In this annual year-end analysis, EdSurge counts all venture investments in U.S. MOOC companies typically account for the bump in the “Post-Secondary” category, but aside from Coursera’s $64 million Series D round, few other companies focused in higher education scored a large deal. Source: EdSurge. Source: EdSurge.

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EdTech Pearson Company Knewton 131

Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

” (Its MOOC competitor edX also announced this year that many of its courses would no longer be free.) Vive la MOOC révolution. The data analysis and surveillance that are at the core of “smart cities” will surely include education data. It upped the price of its “nanodegrees.”

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Trends MOOC Company Edmodo 96

Edsurge

MAY 21, 2021

Data analysis from New America shows that half of adults with a short-term certificate who are employed earn $30,000 or less per year. In focus groups for her research, many people who participated in short courses said that their relatively brief classroom time did not prepare them for work as well as did actual on-the-job experience.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2016

This project – something I’ve done every year since 2010 – aims to serve as an in-depth analysis of the noteworthy events and products and politics and financing and tries to piece together the narratives and ideologies that drive ed-tech. Who’s Funding MOOCs in 2016? Who’s Funding Job Placement Startups?

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Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

The answer has been “yes” for some years, and I’m not talking about MOOCs or University of Phoenix. How can colleges and universities share courses online? That is, can students at one institution take a class taught by faculty at another? It’s a form of inter-institutional collaboration.

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Trends MOOC Course Outcomes 74

Edsurge

DECEMBER 14, 2016

If people were allowed to change names of things to get around laws, I could offer a degre, with one e,” says Russ Poulin, director of policy and analysis for WCET, a nonprofit promoting e-learning programs. State officials eventually changed the rules to include an exemption for MOOCs and other courses that were free or low-cost.

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Coursera MOOC Course Company 60

Hack Education

JULY 7, 2017

” Some of these experimental sites included MOOCs and coding bootcamps. ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Class Central’s Dhawal Shah, writing in Edsurge : “ MOOCs Find Their Audience: Professional Learners and Universities.” State and Local) Education Politics.

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MOOC Education Robotics Company 59

techieMusings

MAY 19, 2016

Sophomores have the opportunity to spend a period of their day learning through a MOOC of their choosing. Their MOOC worktime is an assigned period within their school day. When students are in their MOOC course, they all report to the open learning space, as in the pictures below. Math Rotation Model. Conclusion.

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Wired Campus

DECEMBER 21, 2015

Concerns about Yik Yak and analysis of MOOCs and online teaching were among the most popular stories this past year on our Wired Campus blog. And while massive open online courses have largely fallen out of the national headlines, three of the top 10 articles in 2015 involved MOOCs (in one case, charting their fade from prominence).

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 2, 2016

The company’s platform gets rid of the need for schools to make their own data systems or rely on multiple products to perform data analysis. think they’ve come up with a solution—a text analysis tool that provides automated feedback on a learner’s notes and then aggregates that data for instructors. But entrepreneurs behind Comprend.io

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Mistakengoal.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Friedman and the rest of the uncritical MOOC cheerleaders) or dystopian views. Rob Kling was a powerful voice in this conversation and his 1994 article “Reading ‘All About’ Computerization: How Genre Conventions Shape Non-Fiction Social Analysis” in The Information Society 10 (3) is a classic article on this topic.

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Technology MOOC Industry Social Media 71

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

To be successful, the underlying analysis must be grounded in an appreciation for the structural aspects of competitive advantage, on the one hand, and an understanding of the structure of the targeted educational industry sector, on the other. Time will tell whether these changes were too little, too late.

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Learning with 'e's

JUNE 11, 2015

The synopsis reads: With the success of open access publishing, Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and open education practices, the open approach to education has moved from the periphery to the mainstream. Clearly, the tensions he identifies require some analysis.

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Learning with 'e's

MAY 2, 2019

Alternative modes Today, education has expanded beyond traditional learning spaces into distance education , blended learning, flipped classrooms , mobile learning, and online delivery through technologies such as MOOCs ( Massive Open Online Courses ).

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 27, 2015

Self-guided MOOC. Traditional MOOC. Traditional Concept-Mapping (teacher-given strategy– “fishbone” cause-effect analysis , for example). Face-to-Face Driver blended learning. Rotation blended learning. Flex Blended Learning. “ Online Lab” blended learning. Sync Teaching. HyFlex Learning.

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EdTechTeacher

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

As a researcher, Justin has been carrying this concept into his work with MOOCs. However, in the last few years, higher education has listened to the world of MOOCs and started changing. Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics , a meta-analysis paper published by Freeman et al.,

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 16, 2013

There are eight conference strands covering a wide variety of timely topics, such as MOOCs, e-books, maker spaces, mobile services, embedded librarians, green libraries, doctoral student research, library and information center "tours," and more! We have 146 accepted conference sessions and ten keynote addresses. inek vizsgálata - Szöll?si

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Wired Campus

APRIL 23, 2015

Patterson, the author of the paper and a doctoral candidate in policy analysis and management at the university, says online courses and degree programs can provide opportunities for students who may not otherwise have access to higher education, but distraction and procrastination throw up barriers to their success. MOOCs Online Courses'

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Khan, MOOCs, boot camps, career academies, even what is seen as enrollment “swirl” in community college courses reflect the demand for just-in-time, just-enough learning, often focused on achieving specific competencies. Competencies are the starting point for defining learning pathways that lead to well-defined achievements.

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Competency Based Learning MOOC Outcomes Analysis 40

Mistakengoal.com

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Friedman and the rest of the uncritical MOOC cheerleaders) or dystopian views. Rob Kling was a powerful voice in this conversation and his 1994 article “Reading ‘All About’ Computerization: How Genre Conventions Shape Non-Fiction Social Analysis” in The Information Society 10 (3) is a classic article on this topic.

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Technology MOOC Industry Social Media 49

Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2018

Many companies – and certainly these two in particular – also have a long history of data collection and data analysis. MOOCs were going to change everything. These companies and their league of marketers and advocates have long argued that their products will augment what teachers can do. Augment, not replace, of course.

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