Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2022

Additionally, stories about companies and nonprofits trying to innovate within higher ed attracted a lot of attention, as did several articles about learning science and new teaching practices. Below is a countdown of the top 10 articles of 2021 as voted by reader interest. Young The MOOC giant was valued at more than $3.6

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ViewSonic Education

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Have you ever felt that the traditional classroom structure we’ve all grown used to is a bit too limiting for the today’s day and age? Below you’ll find professional insight into: What is a flipped classroom approach? What challenges will you face within a flipped classroom approach? So what does this mean?

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Neo LMS

JUNE 16, 2020

Technology plays a prominent role in the modern classroom. In a survey of 1,000 long-time high school teachers, 73% say their classrooms use laptops and tablets daily. Although teachers have advanced resources, many are unsure how best to implement them in the classroom. Enroll in an online program. Take a degree course.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

If I was still doing that now, I would be incredibly excited because so many wonderful resources would be available to my classroom. We could participate in a number of free Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs), including over a dozen on Chinese History from Harvard University.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Fast forward a few weeks; Minecraft kept finding its way into my classroom. Whether a recreation of a famous landmark, an original build in response to a classroom topic, or the setting for a narrative tale, nothing is more powerful than a project generated by the students’ own voices. Ideas for Using Minecraft in the Classroom.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

Video Streaming/ Flipped Classroom/eLearning Trends. The flipped classroom movement seems to, in pockets, be threatening the college lecture. MOOCs are great ideas, but assessment and feedback loops and certification are among the many issues holding them back. We shall see. Video, of course, enables other innovations.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Note: This article originally appeared in Stanford News. As college students click, swipe and tap through their daily lives—both in the classroom and outside of it—they’re creating a digital footprint of how they think, learn and behave that boggles the mind. For Stevens, his “aha!”

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 3, 2013

What will be the future of school classrooms? It is unlikely that we will see the demise of the classroom in the next decade. Those who study the future of education often suggest that the demise of traditional classrooms is not only inevitable, but imminent. Is he right? As ever, your comments on this blog are welcome.

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The Thinking Stick

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

How can we use that research to start blending our classrooms more and more to prepare students for the universities that away them? An article overview of the the research can be found here. . Personally this is what sets apart good online courses and why MOOCs work. Check out our online courses at Eduro Learning here.

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ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 1, 2019

Incorporating technology in the classroom has paved the way for a myriad of innovative methods and practices that are aimed at improving upon teaching structures of the past. Blended learning enables me to effectively bring technology into the classroom. Read on below to find out what they had to say. What is blended learning?

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 20, 2013

There are the formal, classroom based collaborative spaces and there are the informal, non classroom spaces where we learn most of what we know in interaction with others. You can read more on collaborative learning space design approaches in this article. MOOCs take learning even farther away from the classroom.

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ProfHacker

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

This post is inspired by an article called The Tyranny of Structurelessness by Jo Freeman. Thanks to Gardner Campbell for sharing it while collaboratively annotating an article for the #OpenLearning17 MOOC. The same occurs in connectivist MOOCs (cMOOCs).

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The Principal of Change

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Today I tweeted this article: Thoughts? – Technologies That Will Define the Classroom of the Future https://t.co/XnFCPlER4r. MOOCs and other online learning options. Read the whole article to get an in more depth look. ). – Technologies That Will Define the Classroom of the Future https://t.co/XnFCPlER4r.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

EdSurge: MOOCs, MOOCs, MOOCs! Young: Long live MOOCs! But as it turns out, massive online classes are still with us—my wife and I are slowly making our way through a philosophy MOOC from the University of Copenhagen. What was particularly memorable to you about that article? So what happened here?

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

Over the last few years, we’ve traded resources, articles and work samples as we try to build our own starter kit for this fast-moving field. This curriculum design approach is used by teachers who work in traditional classrooms, but holds up just as well in the digital realm.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

Since then, the online education, education technology and workforce innovation industry has gone through three increasingly larger “waves” which I described in that previous article , and concerns that our industry was “ jumping the shark ” in 2017 have been proven premature. MOOCs topped the cycle in 2012.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

He also knew that the notion of introducing what he called “learning engineers” would face resistance from faculty convinced they already knew perfectly well what they were doing in their classrooms. “A A substantial part of the nation’s resources are being devoted to higher education,” Simon said.

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Learning with 'e's

MAY 9, 2013

million articles in English, and many more in other languages. From individual students learning informally by browsing on their handhelds, to small flipped classrooms, to vast groups of learners following a programme of study on massive online open courses ( MOOCs ), education is changing to become learner driven.

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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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The Principal of Change

OCTOBER 25, 2018

In the article, “ Why solving the world’s problems needs to start a multi-disciplinary approach ,” they shared a story on the connection between engineering and understanding humanity: One traffic intersection in the center of Drachten, Netherlands, accommodates 20,000 drivers as well as many bicyclists and pedestrians each day.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

But before the 1980s and since, many education technologists have been convinced that tutoring is the best form of instruction – far, far surpassing “traditional” classroom instruction – and that the only way that we can reach the goal of one tutor per child is to use the computer as the tutor. Vive la MOOC révolution.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

A handful of efforts attempt to turn their visions into reality, and they aren’t just making small tweaks: Some of these new colleges don’t have physical classrooms. What’s different: There are no physical classrooms, and all classes are held by synchronous video. What’s different: The campus will have no classrooms and no lectures.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

" I like to cite, as an example, a New Yorker article from a few years ago that interviewed Anthony Levandoski, the Uber engineer sued by Google for stealing its self-driving car technology. " Cop s**t supposedly brings order to the classroom by demanding compliance. Unfathomable. Impenetrable. Incomprehensible. Inexplicable.

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Hack Education

JULY 7, 2017

” Some of these experimental sites included MOOCs and coding bootcamps. The Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow is appealing a lower court’s ruling that it must repay $60 million to the state of Ohio as it cannot document students “attended” its online charter school. State and Local) Education Politics.

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The Principal of Change

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Here is something I wrote in “ The Innovator’s Mindset ” that is an easy way to support our teachers in their work: I often took my laptop and would sit in a classroom for anywhere from three to six hours. You can do what I did; take your computer or tablet and work in classrooms.

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Mistakengoal.com

JULY 21, 2014

I feel an obligation to bring closure to the historical work I began a few years ago so I will be spending the next several months working with primary sources and reworking old drafts into publishable articles. Faculty wonder if their jobs are being increasingly outsourced to MOOCs and learning analytics funded by the Gates Foundation.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2019

Informed projections say that American universities have already run out of 18-year-olds to fill the millions of freshmen empty seats in their classrooms. One article reported that Udacity, a company that creates large-scale online courses, budgeted $200,000 per course, while edX charged $250,000 for its design and consulting services.

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The Principal of Change

MARCH 20, 2018

I was pleased to read this quote from a recent article, “ Google spent years studying effective teams — and one trait stood out ,” which stated what was most important to the success of teams: What mattered most: Trust. September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon! It was psychological safety.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2017

But we’ve been disheartened to see a lack of interest in making that clear distinction, as evidenced most recently by the comments of a number of our colleagues in a recent Campus Technology article.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 8, 2015

30 Examples Of Disruptions In The Classroom. ” The article goes on to point out some examples of this kind of dilemma, and how certain businesses responded. ” What are some examples of disruptions in the classroom, then? 30 Examples Of Disruptions In The Classroom . by Terry Heick. Maker Movement.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Today, we’d like to call out nine of our contributors in particular, who’ve written the most popular articles of 2016. Amongst our standout articles and the themes they evoke: a Stanford University researcher on edtech and equity, an entrepreneur on growth mindset, and a look into Chromebooks by the president of a iBoss Cybersecurity.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2016

We’ve written this article in response to the recent EdSurge. And, like Turkle, we are concerned that the predominant uses of technology in higher education—both in the workplace and the classroom—do not place human connections and conversations at their center. We are all familiar with the dynamics of a college classroom.

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Hack Education

MAY 6, 2020

As school buildings were shuttered, the district turned to the radio to replace classroom instruction. As the Superintendent William Johnson wrote in an article in The New York Times a week after the experiment launched, So far as possible, fifteen minutes' time is given to each broadcast above the fourth grade.

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The Principal of Change

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

” The bulk of the article is not about literacy, but about math. June 28, 2013 The Prophets In Your Land December 17, 2015 3 Questions for the Visionary Leader August 14, 2015 Closing Our Eyes in the Pursuit of Innovation March 23, 2016 How Quickly Things Change September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon!

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Hack Education

APRIL 20, 2018

I’m also working on a magazine article that’ll come out this fall on education technology and venture capital. And those were mostly administrators and administrative staff, I’d say, rather than classroom teachers.) It was everything y’all said it would be. ” Investors go to the event for private meetings.

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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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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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