Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2018

Has the MOOC revolution come and gone? Or will the principles of the MOOC movement continue to influence higher ed? On Tuesday, April 10 the #DLNchat community got together to discuss and debate: How Have MOOCs Impacted Approaches to Student Learning? How many MOOCs have you signed up for and how many have you taken?”

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 9, 2013

After seemingly stalling for a short time, MOOCs ( Massive Open Online Courses ) seem to be graining ground again. First there were the cMOOCs, free and open online courses that focused more on learning than they did on accreditation. Learning was fun and informal, and learning was often self or peer assessed.

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MOOC Coursera Khan Academy Assessment 75

EdTechSandyK

JULY 27, 2014

Image Source Used Under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND License Week 4 of the Foundations of Virtual Instruction MOOC I started on June 30th is wrapping up today. By this time next week, I will hopefully have successfully completed my first MOOC. I was especially interested/distressed to find out that even in MOOCs, people try to cheat !

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MOOC Coursera Course Report 72

EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 11, 2017

James Stewart , marketing director of 51Talk, spoke at the summit about personalized learning’s role in enhancing the quality of education for millions of students across China. This investment has enabled 51Talk to better assess student proficiency, and then match each assessed student with the proper level of coursework.

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MOOC Education Industry Company 211

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The Online Learning Consortium (OLC), one of the 12 partner organizations of Every Learner Everywhere, was charged with identifying and understanding innovations in the digital education landscape. But content is not top on your list.”

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Trends Digital Learning Learning Secondary 218

Mark Smithers

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Thanks to Kate Bowles ( @KateMfD ) for sending me a link to an open Coursesites web site (free registration) that has been created for the MOOC discussion at the forthcoming Universities Australia 2014 conference. There are six questions in the discussion area; these are: What have been the most significant impacts of MOOCs?

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Edsurge

JULY 17, 2020

Founded in 2012 by two Stanford University professors, Coursera was one of a trio of startups that spearheaded the hype around massive open online courses, or MOOCs, for short. Most mix and match; they will use courses developed by another institution, but design their own assessments tailored to an instructor’s course.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

A single mom in middle America could learn to code from Google instructor. Unless we carefully examine where we put the paywalls and how we cultivate diverse student bodies in our online learning experiences, we risk transposing the same patterns of inequity that have plagued in-person education into our digital classrooms.

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Coursera MOOC Education Khan Academy 144

Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2019

So with these guidelines in mind, I’ve chosen six areas where edtech has made an impact this decade: Learning Management Systems. Learning analytics. Adaptive learning systems. Three types of edtech joined the “filmstrip” category in this decade: Learning Management Systems , MOOC s, and digital badges.

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Digital Badges MOOC Technology OER 127

Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2020

In a 2018 survey of hiring leaders , we found that online pre-hire assessment was the single most likely “disruptor” of the reliance on degrees in hiring, followed by simulation-based hiring. Learning is increasingly happening in the workplace, or “ in the flow of work.”

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Learning Digital Badges E-rate MOOC 214

Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Could the rise in MOOC-based and other certificates affect how traditional college degree paths are designed? What role should employers have in the design or execution of digital learning opportunities? Not only are MOOCs designed to be free, they offer opportunity to students to explore the topic before they invest and commit.”

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Digital Learning MOOC Learning Education 151

Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2018

Ahearn, an online learning manager for +Acumen, shares eight lessons learned about the field with a starter kit of what every hopeful instructional designer should know. Here’s a sneak peek at lesson one: Start with a deep understanding of your learners.

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Coursera MOOC Company Course 133

Mark Smithers

DECEMBER 2, 2013

A big question is how this can be scaled to large numbers of students in a learning environment. No doubt much of Kennedy’s thinking is informed by the University of Melbourne’s Coursera MOOCs that have very large numbers of students and, consequently, very little teacher to student interaction. There is no ‘course offering’ as such.

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Online Learning Learning Coursera MOOC 77

A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 31, 2016

Digital leadership focuses on transforming learning environments through online course offerings (synchronous and asynchronous), independent studies, and use of OpenCourseWare to provide students with continuous options to learn anytime, anywhere, and about anything. The work was assessed according to the IOCS Rubric.

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Personalized Learning Learning Secondary Course 150

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. On a blockchain, informal learning could also be included and verified , such as information about research experience, individual projects and skills, mentoring or online learning.

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Data MOOC Outcomes System 173

ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 1, 2019

When implementing blended learning within the classroom, teachers may have to produce additional materials for the pupils to use. 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. What is a blended learning approach?

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Blended Learning Learning Khan Academy MOOC 170

Linways Technologies

APRIL 22, 2020

Here we are talking about virtual campus management solutions or online learning management solutions that can essentially digitize the teaching-learning. Data-Driven Results As an institution, the way you treat education and manage it is different from MOOCs or short-term online courses.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

So despite talk by corporate leaders about a “war for talent,” and complaints about a lack of skilled workers and the challenge of retaining top talent, employers are actually spending less, on average, on learning and development for their employees.

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 3, 2016

A recent move by a leading United Kingdom learning platform to issue academic credits toward a degree for students who complete open online courses could signal a forthcoming trend in the U.S. Typically MOOCs are known for providing free open content to anyone, often from well-respected universities. Here in the U.S.,

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 5, 2021

Asynchronous learning has also been referred to as Location Independent Learning, an accurate description that misses some of the bigger ideas embedded in this modern approach to education. Consider that the goal of education is for students to learn not to demonstrate that they have learned. .” ” Reflect.

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Learning Groups Course MOOC 144

Mark Smithers

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Thanks to Kate Bowles ( @KateMfD ) for sending me a link to an open Coursesites web site (free registration) that has been created for the MOOC discussion at the forthcoming Universities Australia 2014 conference. There are six questions in the discussion area; these are: What have been the most significant impacts of MOOCs?

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MOOC Course Assessment LMS 32

Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2018

Can online learning and digital tools help learners save money? On Tuesday, June 12 the #DLNchat community got together to dive into how improving digital learning could help institutions pass along savings to students, and how technology might also help reduce indirect costs for college attendance.

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OER Tools MOOC Course 92

eSchool News

JULY 22, 2024

Pre-pandemic, Meriden was already dipping its toe into online learning, so we had some tech-savvy teachers doing things with Moodle or Schoology,” Moore. We had some experience with online learning.” We really did a lot in getting everybody online. Then came the pandemic. “We

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Strategy Moodle Learning Blended Learning 114

Edsurge

MAY 14, 2017

“We focus on how we can incorporate the best visuals, music and sound effects in our videos to enhance learning, rather than just present a lecture.” MRU courses also include discussion forums and practice assessments. Nobody really knows yet what works for online learning,” he says. “A

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Khan Academy MOOC Flipped Classroom Course 90

Fractus Learning

MAY 19, 2016

It’s now 2016 and educators still have not discovered the power of infusing a balance of asynchronous and synchronous technologies, as well as engagement into their online classroom. Online learning does not need to be mechanical in nature. Engagement needs to take place in the online learning environment.

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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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Classroom MOOC Trends Social Media 62

EdTechSandyK

APRIL 8, 2014

Notes from the Discussion We no longer have to go to school if we want to learn. edX - www.edex.org - MOOC site, courses are all free, people who teach the courses are from Harvard, MIT, Berkeley, University of Texas, etc. Coursera is another option for higher ed MOOCS. Example: Working toward self assessment of math.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2019

based online learning platform provider, raised $103 million in a Series E round. Rounding out the podium for top dollars raised in 2019 with $90 million is Examity , a Boston-based provider of exam proctoring tools used by colleges and universities, assessment groups, professional certification boards and employers.

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EdTech Coursera Knewton Analysis 167

Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2018

Kent Darr suggested that “Parsing large data sets could help the instructor and instructional designer make quicker, more informed decisions about course content, tasks, and assessments,” work that “may otherwise prove to be time-consuming for the instructor/ researcher.”

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Education Data MOOC Industry 103

Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

How can colleges and universities share courses online? The answer has been “yes” for some years, and I’m not talking about MOOCs or University of Phoenix. Also occuring this year was an outside assessment of the project , conducted by Ithaka S&R. It’s a form of inter-institutional collaboration.

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Trends MOOC Course Outcomes 74

The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

We discuss their goals and what they are working on, and if they had an assessment we might talk about that,” she said. They are in charge of their learning,” said Hayden. “We Overall, the rise of online learning — from MOOCs to Khan Academy — makes “blended” learning that combines computer and live instruction feel normal to students.

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Personalized Learning Education Khan Academy Elementary 106

Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

” Here DeMillo carries on his account of the MOOC story which he launched in chapter 1. This chapter takes us from 2012 through 2013, following the expansion of MOOCs across American research-1 institutions and the breakout of Coursera, edX, and Udacity. It’s not entirely a rosy account. Kindle location 1093).

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 27, 2016

Training for student assessments: 27 percent. Who provided the professional online learning course? Online community: 60 percent. Most often selected tools used to teach the professional learning courses were: Videos: 76 percent. Quizzes/assessments: 68 percent. Reading, English/Language Arts: 30 percent.

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Course Study Survey Digital Badges 53

EdTechSandyK

MARCH 4, 2013

link] Predictions are 1/2 of higher Ed will be online in the next 10 years. How do we assess quality with all of the online education providers that are out there? Small start ups and giant MOOCS. Important to get feedback from students through surveys to assess quality of teaching and content.

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Udemy Education MOOC Survey 49

Mark Smithers

DECEMBER 2, 2013

A big question is how this can be scaled to large numbers of students in a learning environment. No doubt much of Kennedy’s thinking is informed by the University of Melbourne’s Coursera MOOCs that have very large numbers of students and, consequently, very little teacher to student interaction. There is no ‘course offering’ as such.

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Online Learning Learning Coursera MOOC 32

EdTechSandyK

MARCH 6, 2017

Kim, Researcch Scientist in the Learning Systems Lab, MIT What is your mission? Kim: Transform teaching & learning at MIT around the globe through the use of digital technology. MOOCs, technology infusion projects, online masters or pathways to credit, research. Institutional reputation is at stake in higher ed.

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Coursera MOOC Flipped Classroom Assessment 45

TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 9, 2015

Prior Learning Assessment for Educators and Industry. Foundations of Teaching for Learning 8: Developing Relationships. Performance Assessment in the Virtual Classroom. ICT in Primary Education: Transforming children’s learning across the curriculum. Universal Design and Accessibility for Online Learning.

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