Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2018

To avoid establishing an academic class system, with online the bargain-basement poor cousin of the superior designer model on campus, colleges must set the same price, too. In my new book, Going Online , I argued: “By and large, colleges and universities charge the same tuition on campus and online.

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Online Learning Coursera Learning Report 156

Edsurge

MAY 13, 2021

It was 2012, and online learning was suddenly booming. Courses at Stanford and at MIT were opened for free online to the masses, and the masses signed up—with some courses attracting more than 160,000 each. Dhawal Shaw, founder of MOOC-discovery platform Class Central. Downsides of Openness?

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2020

The moral of that tale, he adds, is there is probably no easy, silver-bullet questionnaire that can be asked at the beginning of any online course to improve completion, as some learning scientists had hoped. Considering Context But that doesn’t mean Reich has given up on behavioral interventions in online learning.

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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. Esme wants to transform the effectiveness of online learning, increasing both student engagement and the quality of course content. AI does not have to be your foe,” Shrier said.

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Pearson MOOC Digital Learning EdTech 174

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. OER and open books. Learning analytics. Adaptive learning systems. OK, so Learning Management Systems weren’t developed in the 2010s, but they sure didn’t improve much during this decade.

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Digital Badges MOOC Technology OER 127

Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2020

When the Sloan Foundation had the bright idea to stimulate digital education at the nation’s colleges and universities a quarter of a century ago, it christened online learning as “asynchronous learning networks,” an eccentric name for what is now known simply as online learning.

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Education MOOC Online Learning Strategy 164

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. What Happened to Google's Effort to Scan Millions of University Library Books? But for now those works are still partially available and searchable.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

As online course platforms proliferate, institutions of all shapes and sizes realize that they’ll need to translate content into digital forms. Designing online learning experiences is essential to training employees, mobilizing customers, serving students, building marketing channels, and sustaining business models.

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Udemy Course Coursera MOOC 165

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Big changes are coming to higher education, and those changes will be bigger and more disruptive than many college leaders realize as online education grows in both size and prestige. Meanwhile, the growth of online programs could change the role of reputation and prestige in higher education.

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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. Is it sustainable?

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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

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

Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 14, 2017

Image from Carpe Diem I was sent a pre-publication copy of Cathy Davidson's new book The New Education recently, to review. The strapline for Davidson's latest book is ' how to revolutionize the university to prepare students for a world in flux. Yes, more students than ever are enrolled on MOOCs (p. Unported License.

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MindShift

APRIL 25, 2016

For all the promises of online courses disrupting education, completion rates are notoriously low. Some studies found that about five percent of those enrolled in massive open online courses (known as MOOCs) completed the course. In many cases, the librarians learned alongside students as they completed the course. “In

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MOOC Libraries Online Learning Learning 28

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Some of these other examples appear in the introduction of my forthcoming book, which I won't spoil since I have to save a chapter like that for the book tour — if we can do book tours. AllLearn wasn't the only online education failure of the early 2000s, of course. His Wikipedia entry also fails to mention AllLearn.).

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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. Subjects included Byzantine art, the history of the book, topics on the American Civil War, and more. ” ( More here ).

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Trends MOOC Course Outcomes 74

The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

What does personalized learning mean to the perennial tug-of-war over content — in higher education’s “great books” debate over whether students should absorb the Western canon or study what they want, and, at the K-12 level, over the Common Core? Is sameness the key to equal opportunity?

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Personalized Learning Education Khan Academy Elementary 104

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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MOOC Coursera Education Dropout 40

Bryan Alexander

MAY 27, 2016

Curt began by describing the use of MOOCs for faculty and staff development, with examples such as a University of London effort. In fact, open MOOCs can work for any population, esp. I asked how open learning works for non-professionals, citing research showing many MOOC users are already professionals and/or academics.

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Trends MOOC Coursera Education 42

Learning with 'e's

MARCH 20, 2014

When did you first become involved with research into distance education and online learning? Thus my colleague Jon Dron and I have been building an Elgg–based open access social media system at Athabasca University that offers much more student control, ownership and persistence to create learning “beyond the course”.

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E-rate Conference Social Media Study 73

Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2017

As online learning companies compete for the attention and wallets of learners, players like MasterClass , Linked Learning , Cognotion and Harvard are investing in producing videos that are so beautiful they could be National Geographic documentaries or sitcom pilots. Educational media is at an inflection point.

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Video MOOC Khan Academy Education 60

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

MOOC uses new AP Physics curriculum, could aid both students and teachers. A free online course from Rice University uses attention-grabbing videos, interactive lab activities, dramatic physics demonstrations, engaging instructors and a free online textbook to help high school students prepare for the Advanced Placement (AP) Physics 1 Exam.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 16, 2013

There are eight conference strands covering a wide variety of timely topics, such as MOOCs, e-books, maker spaces, mobile services, embedded librarians, green libraries, doctoral student research, library and information center "tours," and more! Million, Doctoral Student Let them Drive.their learning!

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Bryan Alexander

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

We discussed Rich’s recent book, which we’ve been reading for months, anchored on these blog posts. Revolution sees 2012 as a critical year (“the Magic Year”) when forces really came together, including, but not limited to, MOOCs. 1: Revolution in Higher Education. General Q+A.

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Trends MOOC Education Blended Learning 40

Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

” Here DeMillo changes tack from neuroscience (chapter 3) and returns to technology, but not very much to MOOCs. The focus now is technology for personalized learning, including data analytics. Revolution in Higher Education now sees us in the midst of a complex breakthrough in teaching and learning. ”(2138).

Education 40

Education MOOC Learning Analytics Data 40

Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 14, 2015

There’s an interesting criticism of online learning in this context, as DeMillo damns institutions for offering distance learning programs instead of changing up their strategy and operations. In this chapter DeMillo focuses on one of the book’s major themes, setting access against elitism. and get reading.

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Education MOOC System Strategy 40

Learning with 'e's

MARCH 16, 2015

blogs, social media, learning objects, OERs, MOOCs, etc in this period. 2) You wrote a book on being a digital scholar in 2011. As to whether it''s a good thing or not, I''ve just written a whole book exploring some of this in The Battle for Open , so it''s difficult to say in a short answer.

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MOOC Dropout OER Social Media 28

Perry Hewitt

APRIL 15, 2018

A critical part of this learning stems from transparency : organizations used to sweeping failed projects under the rug are now sharing them via processes like blameless post-mortems to capture lessons and encourage experimentation. Enable and reward cross-disciplinary learning. Green Mind demo.

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Industry MOOC Software STEM 60

Bryan Alexander

APRIL 18, 2016

In the book’s first half McGee does a great job of exploring transformative forces in economics, demographics, and culture. Expanding the student-teacher ratio (139) could be done with enrollment growth, except the book rules that out, suggesting fewer faculty members.

Analysis 40

Analysis Trends Strategy MOOC 40

Bryan Alexander

APRIL 18, 2016

In the book’s first half McGee does a great job of exploring transformative forces in economics, demographics, and culture. Expanding the student-teacher ratio (139) could be done with enrollment growth, except the book rules that out, suggesting fewer faculty members.

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Analysis Trends Strategy MOOC 40

GoConqr

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Mobile learning. Many online learning platforms can be used with smartphones, tablets, and desktop computers. Mobile learning is a key trend, which means it's important that elearning be mobile supported.” She has authored 6 books on education. Barbara Geyer-Hayden (MA Programme Director, Germany).

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Technology Trends Education Gamification 75

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) ” In reviewing Srnicek’s book in March, New York Times media journalist John Hermann wrote , Platforms are, in a sense, capitalism distilled to its essence.

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 63

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 22, 2019

She is currently working on her upcoming book Libraries Supporting Online Learning: Digital Literacy, Open Access and Local Connectivity from ABC-CLIO. Her research interests include online instructional design, discovery and digital literacy. Ida peer reviews technology-related book proposals for Elsevier.

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Libraries Conference Elsevier Technology 29

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Please consider becoming part of this elite team by signing up at [link] and using the booking calendar to schedule volunteer time. Smith, Director of Programs Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for STEM - Revolutionary or Evolutionary? Huge thanks! Cantwell, Instructional Services Librarian (Asst.

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STEM Maker Movement MOOC Common Core 43

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Chris Hagar, Joyce Monsees and April Anderson 5:00pm KEYNOTE: Pam Sandlian-Smith on "Creating Experience Libraries" 6:00pm DigiBook MakerSpace in Chinese Public Libraries - Dr. Shu,Man El Poder de los Cuentos Digitales.

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Libraries Conference eBook Mobility 57

Bryan Alexander

APRIL 12, 2016

For more background on containers Jim recommended Marc Levinson’s book The Box (2006). Jim recommends the notion of The Splot (credit to Brian Lamb , Alan Levine ): the smallest possible online learning tool; make something very focused, for one function or project. A: Jim hoped so.

Trends 41

Trends LMS Data MOOC 41

Bryan Alexander

APRIL 12, 2016

For more background on containers Jim recommended Marc Levinson’s book The Box (2006). Jim recommends the notion of The Splot (credit to Brian Lamb , Alan Levine ): the smallest possible online learning tool; make something very focused, for one function or project. A: Jim hoped so.

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Trends LMS Data MOOC 40