Teacher Reboot Camp

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

In my book, Hacking Digital Learning Strategies with EdTech Missions , I introduce mission minded learning to help students reflect on the power they have to make a positive difference with their use of technology. Join my free online course where we work on digital learning missions, The Goal-Minded Teacher MOOC ( #EduGoalsMOOC ).

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 28, 2020

Recharge with books- Book chats/studies, audio books, author virtual events, #BookCampPD, @HackMyLearning, @EduMatchBooks, @BurgessDave, @Foundations_inc. Twitter Chats, webinars, MOOCs, online courses, online conferences, virtual events, livestreams, Edcamps, Facebook groups, #Hashtags. Online courses and MOOCs.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

A new book, “ Learning Innovation and the Future of Higher Education ,” looks at how to create systems that apply the science of learning into actual teaching. EdSurge: Although you describe yourselves as the “innovation” guys, you stress in your book that you’re not the “disruption guys.”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 6, 2020

Massive Open Online Courses (Sometimes referred to as MOOCs) – MOOCs are readily available courses that are presented online. MOOCs are not an ideal way for most students to learn. MOOCs are available from a variety of sources including Coursera , edX and individual participating universities.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Just to give a few examples, Khan Academy , Crash Course , and popular MOOC sites like Coursera and edX have started a revolution in education, making their own content or their partners’ content (especially higher university institutions on Coursera and edX) available for everyone. Read more: 6 Things you may not know about MOOCs.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2021

It has the most users of any provider of MOOCs (as the large-scale online courses are sometimes called), claiming more than 77 million learners. Dhawal Shaw, founder of MOOC-discovery platform Class Central. And it is the richest, with nearly three-quarters of a billion in cash in the bank, and annual revenue of about $260 million. "EdX

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2020

In my 2014 book “ MOOCS Essentials ,” I reflected on each aspect of the residential learning process and how developers of massive open online courses were trying to replicate those experiences virtually, or come up with ways to keep students engaged without direct teacher-student interaction.

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Edsurge

JULY 23, 2021

A passenger in first class can be flying free on points, while a traveler jammed into coach might be charged a premium for a last-minute booking. It wasn’t until providers of so-called MOOCs—massive open online courses—entered into online partnership with high-ranking colleges about a decade ago that serious discounting took off.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

In today's post we want to bring your attention to this excellent educational resource that, we believe, should definitely make it into your digital teaching toolkit. Open Culture, for those of you.read more

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2021

A decade ago, large-scale online courses known as MOOCs were all the rage, touted as a possible alternative to traditional college and celebrated in the popular press. Talbert had taken MOOCs back when they first started and was unimpressed.

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2021

A few years ago, MOOCs graced the covers of newspapers as a way to bring college to the masses on the cheap. Our guest, Jonathan Zimmerman, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, who researched PSI for a book on the history of college teaching, has a few insights. At some point, gamification was going to be the answer.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

I find it much more engaging than reading a book,” says Engers, a 29-year-old data scientist, when asked why he does it. Coursera was a pioneer in offering MOOCs, or massive open online courses, in partnership with hundreds of top colleges. And I do enjoy giving back and trying to contribute to a community and help future students.”

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2020

San Jose State Puts Blockchain on the Books How can libraries use ledgers? The institution has hosted a national forum and virtual conference and produced a MOOC and a book exploring the potential uses of blockchain technology in the field of information systems.

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Mobility MOOC Libraries Report 201

Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2019

OER and open books. Three types of edtech joined the “filmstrip” category in this decade: Learning Management Systems , MOOC s, and digital badges. As for MOOCs, in 2012, the elites in higher education discovered online learning, which many others felt they had already invented and improved over the previous 15 years.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Five years ago, I published a book on the future of university credentials, making some predictions about what seemed likely to come next in the market for degrees and emerging forms of alternative college credentials. In my book I might have been a bit overly optimistic about the resistance of traditional higher ed, however.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2020

New study in @PNASNews on MOOC persistence- 2.5 Reich, of MIT, has incorporated the experience into a new book that is due out in September, called “ Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education.” “If The MIT scholar outlined his recent research misadventures and his recommendations in a Twitter thread this week.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2018

MOOCs are No Longer Massive. Once upon a time, free online courses known as MOOCs made national headlines. So we talked with Dhawal Shah, founder and CEO of Class Central, who has been tracking MOOCs closely ever since he was a student in one of those first Stanford open courses, about how MOOCs have evolved.

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2018

The MOOC is an extension of the on-campus course—it was really just making our on-campus experience public and open for anyone to follow,” says Barba. These days the professor considers herself an advocate of “the non-video school of MOOCs.” Recently there has been an uptick in the amount of research on flipped learning as well.

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The Principal of Change

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

These are questions that I have addressed in my book, “ The Innovator’s Mindset ”, and will continue to dig deeper into with the second “ Innovator’s Mindset Massive Open Online Course ” that will be starting again on February 27, 2017. September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon! Twitter Chat. Join #IMMOOC! First Name.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2021

While at edX Porter created the Open edX project, which has served more than 55 million learners taking massive open online courses, or MOOCs. COVID-19 has led to a resurgence in MOOC enrollment and, with continued pressure on the labor market, upskilling and reskilling are important considerations across different employment sectors.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2018

More Colleges Are Offering Microcredentials—And Developing Them The Way Businesses Make New Products A few years ago elite universities were frantically jumping into MOOCs. What Happened to Google's Effort to Scan Millions of University Library Books? Early last decade Google started its ambitious project to scan all the world’s books.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

We could participate in a number of free Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs), including over a dozen on Chinese History from Harvard University. million book images from the Internet Archive. . Instead of being limited to my teaching and our textbook, we’d have access to an entire planet of experts.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Some of the podcasters got their start making educational videos or or producing MOOCs, those free online classes that were all the rage a few years ago, but ended up not living up to the hype. That’s the case for Davis, who for several years was a producer of video classes for HarvardX, Harvard’s MOOC production wing. “I

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Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2017

His latest book, “ Teaching Naked Techniques: A Practical Guide to Designing Better Classes ,” expands on his arguments and offers practical advice for instructors who want to rethink how they design their classes. EdSurge: Your book offers a broad critique of college instructors. These MOOCs are free. Of course.

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2017

Cottom, who recently wrote the book “Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy,” is talking about what can happen when traditional non-profit universities partner with for-profit companies and institutions, such as Purdue’s recent decision to acquire Kaplan University. Then yep, we’re on board.”

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2018

One of the most-cited versions of the critique is the 2002 book “ The McDonaldization of Higher Education ,” by Dennis Hayes and Robin Wynyard. The formulation is meant to provoke, and the authors boil their argument into four bullet points (adopting the style and spirit of the business books they critique).

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2018

But new book due out this fall argues for the creation of colleges of many shapes and sizes, including a new set of low-cost options that are focused on helping students who just can’t afford a four-year campus experience get a first job. In the book I actually have a matrix where I say [the most important trait is selectivity].

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2020

For me, it was pretty easy to imagine how I’d supplement the online pre-recorded lectures from my MOOC with discussions with Wesleyan students on the Zoom platform. I never found the right way to do that in my MOOCs because there were so many students enrolled and they were not moving through the material together.

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The PL2C Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

The Friday Institute and Oak Foundation seek to end this anachronism with the Learning Differences MOOC for Educators (MOOC-Ed). When combined with the self-directed, anytime, anywhere learning facilitated in the MOOC-Ed, the experience proved to be powerful. She even plans to “use it with the book study [they] are doing.”

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2019

And he’s written two books on the topic, including his most recent, called “ Why They Can’t Write. But in your latest book, “Why Can't They Write,” you say that students are surprisingly confident about their writing abilities, even though you see them as poor. A lot of that is wrapped up in my other book, “The Writers Practice.”

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Software Assessment MOOC Social Media 167

Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2019

To help understand this shifting landscape, EdSurge sat down this week with Sean Gallagher, who has written a book on the future of university credentials, and runs a center at Northeastern University that tracks this area. And that might make it difficult for smaller colleges to compete. So the innovation is not happening in undergrad?

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2020

OPMs (companies that help build and finance online programs at colleges) and MOOC providers (groups that help colleges build large-scale online courses, some of which are free to take as a form of outreach) have given colleges new options to launch online degrees.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

He makes that case in his new book “Lifelong Kindergarten: Cultivating Creativity through Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play.” When I've looked at that idea of kindergarten, I see that it's based on four core principles that I organized my book around: projects, passion, peers, and play.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Even MOOCs have a professor, even if it might be one for 100,000 people. You were sitting at the computer, and were you looking at MOOCs from other colleges, or were you tapping the person next to you to ask a question? Does your model at 42 work because there are so many MOOCs and other free courses online now?

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

I typically start by developing an Empathy Guide like the one put together by the Stanford d.school or reviewing the free book by Giff Constable, “ Talking to Humans ” to structure productive conversations. After conducting observations and interviews with target learners, I synthesize my findings into learner archetypes.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 29, 2019

He made the move to his new phase of scholarly life during a rush of enthusiasm for so-called MOOCs, Massive Open Online Courses, that big-name colleges were starting to offer low-cost higher education to a wider audience. When I sketch out my next podcast episode, it looks like it's the section of a book.

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2018

It’s a key claim in his new book, “ Free-Range Learning in the Digital Age: The Emerging Revolution in College, Career, and Education ,” due out next month, and it’s one that might unsettle college administrators accustomed to directly overseeing more campus services in-house. Or watch a video version. What do you mean by that?

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