Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2017

In 2017, reality took a massive swipe at the wobbly optimism of technology progressives. Echoing wider soul searching over technology’s polarizing role in politics and society, the education technology scene has been doing its own reckoning. Equitable: An analysis by John Hansen and Justin Reich of U.S.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2019

education technology industry appears on track to surpass the amount of investor funding tallied in recent years. In this analysis, EdSurge counts all venture investments in U.S. educational technology companies whose primary purpose is to support educators and learners across preK-12 and postsecondary education.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2019

There was also plenty of rain in the education technology industry, where venture capitalists and private-equity investors unleashed a deluge of cash. education technology companies raised $1.45 2018 Edtech Funding Breakdown In this annual year-end analysis, EdSurge counts all venture investments in U.S. For many U.S.

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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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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 8, 2012

He also works on the design of information/reasoning systems for intelligence analysis. Media X is Stanford''s catalyst for industry and academic research partnerships on the impact of information and technology on society.'

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techieMusings

MAY 19, 2016

Their school is committed to organization-wide change to effectively infuse technology into the curriculum and they are truly forward-thinking in their approach; the school has already implemented many innovative teaching practices and spaces. Their MOOC worktime is an assigned period within their school day. Math Rotation Model.

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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 Future of Learning: Convergence of VR, AR, & AI : Treating future technologies as complementary, rather than separate, tools is the best path toward immersive learning. The Evolution of MOOCs: Six Years Later : Are MOOCs still around? Higher Ed 11:00 a.m. Higher Ed 11:00 a.m.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Our analysis highlights a world in which learning is increasingly more digital, delivered when it is needed, and done in shorter and less structured ways than in the past. The changing market also sets the stage for the emergence of new types of technology solutions and partnerships.

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Mistakengoal.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

A few weeks ago, I posted a set of recommended readings that I originally sent to a colleague who asked me what I would recommend as essential reading for understanding technology in student affairs. Friedman and the rest of the uncritical MOOC cheerleaders) or dystopian views.

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Technology MOOC Industry Social Media 71

Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Is education technology investing back on track? In this annual year-end analysis, EdSurge counts all venture investments in U.S. educational technology companies whose primary purpose is to improve outcomes for teachers and learners across K-12 and higher education. The answers depend on who you ask. billion across 126 deals.

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 1, 2019

In addition to applying to the Instructional Psychology and Technology program at BYU, I also applied to the ethnomusicology programs at University of Tokyo and University of Hawaii.) (When the time came to apply to graduate school, I still hadn’t decided what I wanted to be when I grew up.

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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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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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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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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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Mistakengoal.com

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Last week, a colleague asked me what I would recommend as essential reading for understanding technology in student affairs. Historical origins of the information age : I think it’s important to ground our understanding of technology by beginning…well, in the beginning.

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Technology MOOC Industry Social Media 49

Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Through deep, deep dives into liberal arts, we can encourage kids to double major—to learn through their analysis and through their own integration to figure out the answers to difficult problems. They have to have great facility with all the latest technologies. So that also connects to technology. They need analytical skills.

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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. Naturally I find two key features absent or woefully underplayed, namely technology and adjunctification. That’s a solid amount of information and advice to cram into 143 pages of text.

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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. Naturally I find two key features absent or woefully underplayed, namely technology and adjunctification. That’s a solid amount of information and advice to cram into 143 pages of text.

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Analysis Trends Strategy MOOC 40

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. million state grant.

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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. Poulin admits that state regulations have not kept up with the technology, calling such laws “woefully behind. Flashback to 2012.

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techieMusings

MAY 19, 2016

Their school is committed to organization-wide change to effectively infuse technology into the curriculum and they are truly forward-thinking in their approach; the school has already implemented many innovative teaching practices and spaces. Their MOOC worktime is an assigned period within their school day. Math Rotation Model.

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MOOC Adobe EdTech Learning 50

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

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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EdTechTeacher

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

” The idea, though, that the kids had separated from technology was ridiculous as Justin shows a YouTube video on how to make a rainbow loom starbust bracelet that has been viewed over 30 million times! As a researcher, Justin has been carrying this concept into his work with MOOCs. Teaching for Expert Thinking and Communication.

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EdTech Robotics MOOC Course 60

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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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. And it might be the trying that we should focus on as much as the technology. Augment, not replace, of course. The Internet was going to change everything.

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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. Planned obsolescence of mobile technology. MOOCs, nanodegrees, etc. Rising cost of universities.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Visible Thinking in Library Instruction - Erika Behling, Library Faculty Reality & Virtuality: Research expectations, responsibilities, and technologies in the dissemination phase of a 4-year study. Mara Cabrera, SLIS Graduate Student, Research Assistant Taming the Quantitative Data Monster with LibPAS: What?

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Linways Technologies

JANUARY 6, 2023

In today’s examination system, when we consider the bloom taxonomy, bottom-level memorization occupies a dominant place, while comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation are of less importance. Internship experiences, adding MOOCs, and Co-Curricular experiences are some other methods to assess students.

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Educator Innovator

JULY 3, 2018

Much of the current rhetoric about technology and education relates to devices and software programs—what types schools should purchase, how much money districts should spend on them, how they should be integrated into classroom learning, and what return on investment they should produce.

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Education Learning MOOC Laptops 39

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Monday, November 18 12:00pm OPENING SESSION - Global Education Welcome and Opening Convocation 1:00pm Are you ready for Conflict Analysis and Management Practice? Advances in technology have fueled the growth of meeting virtually, giving people the ability to actively participate in team meetings no matter where they are in the world.

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Educator Innovator

JULY 3, 2018

Much of the current rhetoric about technology and education relates to devices and software programs—what types schools should purchase, how much money districts should spend on them, how they should be integrated into classroom learning, and what return on investment they should produce.

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Education Learning MOOC Laptops 36

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 11, 2014

The technologies of the Internet and the Web are reshaping where, when, and from whom we learn--and even how we think about learning. The conference strands include Learning Theory, Learning Practice, Learning Science, Learning Spaces, and Technology & Learning. Register for Deep Dive Black Mountain. Learn more here.

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2018

You could call extension schools the original MOOCs. Well, unless you count the students in MOOCs, those free online courses, which are offered through a different division of the university. Yet during that same period, another part of the university, HarvardX, has been running MOOCs, massive open online courses.

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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.”) Are any education technologies, for that matter?

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