TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

MOOCs are great ideas, but assessment and feedback loops and certification are among the many issues holding them back. Comparing an unsupported MOOC from 2008 to an in-person college experience isn’t apples to apples. In a 2016 article, ‘ Innovation in Higher Education: Can Colleges Really Change?’,

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2022

The time to assess the benefits and drawbacks of blockchain technology is right now, before adoption in schools and universities is widespread. A blockchain would most likely contain exam results or internship data, but is the publication of an article also something that should be stored? Education is more than mere courses completed.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 5, 2021

Because of the unique demands of asynchronous learning, curriculum, assessment, and instruction all have to be designed to make this not just possible, but likely. Diagnostic assessment (of competencies, knowledge, standards-based content, etc.) If these distinctions confuse you, maybe stick with the above definition for now.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

This involves navigating search engines, identifying key ideas, evaluating and assessing the quality of information and adapting it to the player’s own unique game world context. For more about using Minecraft with language learners, David Dodgson recommends the following resources: Articles. Minecraft MOOC EVO Minecraft MOOC YouTube.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

In the original article, I gave a list of what computing skills mathematics majors should learn and when they should learn them. The person emailing me was wondering if I had any updates on that list or any new ideas, seven years on from writing the article. But it's limited. For example Foundational Skill LA.1

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ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 1, 2019

In order to reduce the amount of new content a teacher needs to make, YouTube videos, MOOC s, multiple choice questions and web-based resources can be combined. It is more than just working with a computer on self-assessed activities. These need to be carefully selected and modified to ensure they are appropriate for pupils.

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The Principal of Change

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

I saw the title of this article, “ Are Parent-Teacher Conferences Becoming Obsolete? I was expecting the article to talk about moving away from the “traditional parent conference” (sitting around for 10-20 minutes talking about a child’s experience in school) to something more student-led.

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Learning with 'e's

APRIL 6, 2013

A short article appearing in the Independent newspaper on April 6th highlights the tensions brewing because of the use of marking software. What he doesn''t say is that it''s an essential part of the management of MOOC s, especially if they are regularly enrolling upwards of 100,000 students for each course. Unported License.

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The Principal of Change

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

In my last post, “Common Assessments” vs “Common Understandings” , I was reminded of how powerful comments are on a blog, and why blogging is a hugely powerful tool for not only sharing your learning, but learning from others. 2 What I think we mean is that we are looking for “common understandings”, not “common assessments”.

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Testpress

JANUARY 18, 2018

Summative Assessments are long tests and are usually used to evaluate students. Formative Assessments are short tests which are usually provided as practice tests. of MOOC completion rates. Let us know your thoughts about this article in the comment box. Short Tests. This is extraordinary compared to 5.5% Motivation.

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Hack Education

JULY 7, 2017

” Some of these experimental sites included MOOCs and coding bootcamps. Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Assessing the Travel Ban : What New Data on Overseas Recruitment Does – and Doesn’t – Tell Us.” More on certifications in the MOOC section above. ” Education in the Courts.

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The Principal of Change

JULY 13, 2017

From the article, “ 5 Unusual Facts About Google’s Odd (and Wildly Successful) Management Practices “(read the whole thing ): 5. Don’t get this mixed up with the idea that I do not believe we shouldn’t teach students content or have some type of standardized assessments.

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ViewSonic Education

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Fortunately, there is a vast amount of content already available, such as YouTube videos, MOOCs, multiple choice questions and web-based resources. Applications such as EdPuzzle or Nearpod have become a valuable addition of self-paced learning with interaction and tracking student’s assessment within video based material.

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The Principal of Change

DECEMBER 13, 2018

In the article, “What Straight-A Students Get Wrong,” by Adam Grant, he discusses the idea that academic success is not always an indicator of future success: The evidence is clear: Academic excellence is not a strong predictor of career excellence. That is not what I took from the article at all.

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Bryan Alexander

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

The Washington Post offered a taste of it with an overview article, “ One vision of tomorrow’s college: Cheap, and you get an education, not a degree “, which I’ll summarize here. Assessment will involve increasingly strong AI, open credentialing, and open badging, relying on a mix of texts and digital projects.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Like many teachers, I would tap into the the Library of Congress, which would give me tips for teaching with primary sources , including quarterly journal articles on topics such as integrating historical and geographic thinking. Instead of being limited to my teaching and our textbook, we’d have access to an entire planet of experts.

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 3, 2013

This is due to the rapid proliferation of mobile technology, the disintermediation of traditional teacher and student roles, new trends such as MOOCs and the upsurge of user generated content on social media sites - all of which take learning away from previously familiar territory.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

” Re-reading that article now makes me cringe. ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) ” MOOCs looked – for a short while, at least – like they were going to pivot to become LMSes.

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 25, 2016

Indeed, Anya stated they educators are “fumbling” on qualitative assessment so far. She cited the recent Google artificial intelligence success AlphaGo ; I recommended this Wired article. Anya offered an anecdote, that some district-level benchmark tests are starting to get cut back by using software-based assessments.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 20, 2014

Conference strands include Game-Based Learning: How to Use Games in Educational Settings, Games & Assessment, Connecting Educators With Game Developers: Make Your Voices Heard, Students as Content Creators & Game Designers, Research on Game-Based Learning, and Professional Development. A recent article by T.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

As this article was being written, the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the world, forcing a global experiment in online education as schools and colleges closed their doors and moved teaching to online formats. Newkirk calls his company Acuitus , in hopes of encouraging sharpness of thought.

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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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Hack Education

MAY 6, 2020

" But the answers to that question are, of course, bound up in our beliefs and practices and expectations, in our assessments of what "preparedness" even means. Like a MOOC, but in the school gym. I think that many people might be inclined to ask then, "Why were we so unprepared?"

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JULY 28, 2017

Check out their article, How to Create an Infographic Syllabus. I actually did this for one of my Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). Start with this free Google Syllabus Template , then include links to resources, tools, and assessments related to the assignment. Piktochart is a free infographic tool. Gamify your syllabus!

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Using everyday digital content, the COR paper and online assessments directly connect to the questions posed in SHEG’s study and engage learners in credibility decision-making around three COR Competencies: Who’s behind the information? The free assessments include Google Docs assessments to copy and digital rubrics to download.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

The Wired article editorializes, “Unless every family homeschools their children—a prospect that even homeschooling advocates say is untenable—it will remain an individualized solution to a social need.” Same with a school or curriculum or assessment. I can see that happening with school. Adaptive learning apps.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

The stories that I write about the “Top Ed-Tech Trends” are the antithesis of most articles you’ll see about education technology that invoke “top” and “trends.” The quotation is from 2012. But the claim starts to fall apart under scrutiny. But that’s the story that people tell nevertheless.

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EdTechTeam

NOVEMBER 4, 2017

For successful outcomes, plan teacher PD sessions avoiding holidays, weekends, extended school days and reporting/ assessment cycles. In this age of digital transformation, educators may choose from the plethora of online MOOCs which are a convenient and no-travel option.

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). But here are some education-related stories: Via Education Week : “Privacy Experts Assess Potential K–12 Fallout From Facebook ’s Crisis of Trust.”

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2016

When Massive Open Online Courses (or MOOCs) were first introduced, people quickly realized these platforms could help students learn more effectively at their own pace on their own schedule. Formal” education was no longer constrained to traditional classroom hours, if it ever was.

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Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2017

“The Year of the MOOC” – I was summoned to Palo Alto, California for a small gathering to discuss the future of teaching, learning, and technology. Perhaps with this data, the MOOC providers can build a map of professional if not cognitive pathways. Let me begin with a story. They don’t ask questions.

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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. Read Mindstorms. ” ). Only “1.86

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Hack Education

APRIL 13, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” (Note: there’s a response to this article by Georgia Tech professor Ashok Goel, who builds teaching chat-bots, in the “robots” section below.

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Hack Education

APRIL 21, 2017

.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via WCTI12.com ” “ MOOCs Started Out Completely Free. Disclosure alert : no mention that Edsurge, which published this article, shares an investor with Class Central.). com : “Boy, 8, drives to McDonald’s after learning how online.”

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Hack Education

JUNE 1, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). The assessment company has raised over $52 million total. All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Via The New York Times : “ Rolling Stone Faces Revived Lawsuit Over Campus Rape Article.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “Peter Thiel May Finally Get His Flying Cars, Thanks to a New Udacity Nanodegree in 2018.” ” Education in the Courts.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Each week for the past eight or so years, I have gathered a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this has fed the series of articles I have written each December, analyzing the stories we have been told about the future of education. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”).

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