Edsurge

JULY 25, 2017

And she makes the case for why free online courses like hers—which are known as Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs—might still lead to a revolution in higher education, even though the hype around them has died down. Some people might even wonder whether MOOCs are even still around since you don’t hear much about these courses today.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2017

MOOCs have evolved over the past five years from a virtual version of a classroom course to an experience that feels more like a Netflix library of teaching videos. These days, most MOOC providers let learners start courses whenever they like (or on a bi-weekly or monthly basis, as Coursera does).

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 29, 2016

The modern massive open online course movement, which began when the first “MOOCs” were offered by Stanford professors in late 2011, is now half a decade old. In that time, MOOC providers have raised over $400 million and now employ more than a thousand staff. Class Central. million Udacity - 4 million. And it seems to be working.

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EdTech4Beginners

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

They’ve aided the beginnings of ‘flipped’ classrooms – where students view video lectures or read background material at home and spend their class time being guided through exercises, projects, or discussions on the material. Efforts are currently being made to train teachers to handle technologies that aid the flipped classroom.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 18, 2020

Gone are the days when teachers had to drag TVs into classrooms to let students watch films. Now, nearly every classroom is at least equipped with a screen and projector. After all, these technologies bring the one thing every classroom needs: immersive learning. Video-assisted Learning. AR & VR. Virtual Classes.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2018

The constructivist approach can be difficult for teachers and students because it is so different from the traditional classroom routine. Makerspaces can give teachers an opportunity to recognize student talent that may be overlooked in a traditional classroom setting. laser cutters!) and sidelines pedagogy.

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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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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2018

You could call extension schools the original MOOCs. Well, unless you count the students in MOOCs, those free online courses, which are offered through a different division of the university. Yet during that same period, another part of the university, HarvardX, has been running MOOCs, massive open online courses.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

They have a new classroom management tool called Collections. The new classroom management features in Metaverse are free to try with promo code ARforEDU. Today’s Sponsor: Metaverse is a powerful augmented reality app.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 22, 2021

It’s not a big deal since teachers have figured out that they can focus on offering individualized attention to students or in-classroom activities that don’t involve lecturing by pre-recording said lectures. Now, classroom teaching is different from video teaching. You’re not controlling your students’ environments and distractions.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MARCH 10, 2018

Today, the Goal-Minded Teacher ( #EduGoalsMOOC ) free open online course Twitter chat took place about the topics, Classroom Management and Parent Engagement. KidsHealth in the Classroom has free health-related lesson plans for PreK through 12th grade. Parent Involvement or Parent Engagement? Twitter Chat Archive.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 27, 2022

Students had the chance and the time to do projects that sparked their curiosity and interests, allowing them to transfer learning from outside the classroom into their academic development. This way, teachers kept students motivated and engaged in their online classes.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2018

Teachers spend hours designing and setting up their classrooms. One of EdSurge’s most popular articles described how a teacher used flexible seating to create a classroom that resembled Starbucks, spawning a movement to “ Starbucks your classroom. ” I think we’ve seen this reemergence—unintentionally—in the form of MOOCs.

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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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Mark Smithers

MARCH 12, 2013

This morning Richard Grusin posted a series of twenty tweets presenting a highly critical and thought provoking view of MOOCs. MOOCs are the bastard children of 1980s cyber-utopianism and post-1945 economic neoliberalism. MOOCs are a 21st century manifestation of cyberspace’s revolutionary ideology of information freedom.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

I’d send instructors off into virtual classrooms, practically on their own, with little or no support. After all, most professors started out believing they were destined to do scholarly work, perform research, publish results and teach in classrooms; but for most, teaching online was not what they had in mind. Sink or swim.

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The Shake Up Learning Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The post 20 New Ways to Use Google Classroom [infographic] appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Expand Your Use of Google Classroom. Google Classroom can be used for so much more than just your traditional classroom LMS. Consider these 20 New Ways to Use Google Classroom. 20 NEW Ways to Use Google Classroom.

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2020

Insights that derive from dialog between K-12, higher education, and online-learning providers could well shape instructional practices for the better as students return to school, whether in a classroom or over Zoom. Instructors have also experimented with lecture formats that did away with podiums and blackboards.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 13, 2017

The Fellows learn how to: Assess student learning differences in the classroom and implement responsive instructional strategies premised on UDL; Use technological tools and flexible instructional media to provide a rich and adaptive learning environment; and. Redesign physical spaces in schools and classrooms to reflect the UDL framework.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

But there’s a challenge in getting those findings to folks at the front of the classroom. That certainly has been a narrative of anxiety in higher education where existing institutions have been threatened by the technology industry, or by MOOCs, or by some other startup that will come in and potentially replace them.

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Neo LMS

MAY 21, 2020

The Open Universities were already a reality in the 20th century, and with the extensive use of the internet, the MOOC phenomenon has grown exponentially over the last decade. Read more: Why are some educators still reluctant to using technology in the classroom? How to overcome the resistance to online education in Higher Ed.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Technology is an excellent way to make students of all generations more engaged in classroom activities and more motivated when they attend classes or do their homework. Read more: 6 Things you may not know about MOOCs. Canva or Snappa are great sites for beginners and advanced graphic designers in your classroom. Write a book.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Researchers are gaining a better understanding of how people learn—both what works and what doesn’t go so well—in the classroom. EdSurge: When MOOCs started a few years ago, researchers were excited to learn from the data generated from all of these online learners. Then later we started building MOOCs.] They flip the classroom.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

In fact, if we pull back from the immediate horrors of this moment, the move to online learning has actually been underway since around 2010, when universities and private entrepreneurs first began to experiment with Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs. So what have we learned so far? Small-scale seminars can be intimate and powerful.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2022

Young The MOOC giant was valued at more than $3.6 By Sabyn Javeri In a Zoom classroom, the teacher is no longer the central authority, argues the author of this essay, who explains why she thinks that’s good for education. Young This analysis of a major MOOC provider proved prescient; the nonprofit was purchased later in the year.

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EdTech4Beginners

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Whether grading assignments for a small classroom or a massive open online course (MOOC), AI tools can accommodate varying workloads without compromising grading quality or accuracy.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2018

While not quite the “Year of the MOOC,” 2018 saw a resurgence in interest around the ways these massive open online courses are delivering free (and more often these days, not free) online education around the world, and how these providers are increasingly turning to traditional institutions of learning. Cheating on Chegg?

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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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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 8, 2016

The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation at North Carolina State University recently scaled access to professional learning content for educators by taking advantage of the Massive Open Online Courses for Educators (MOOC-Eds) format. There are people literally from the other side of the world in our MOOC-Eds.

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2018

When professor Lorena Barba talks to other educators about flipping their classrooms, the approach she hears is often similar. They come primed to discuss those things and learn in classroom,” says Barba. “We These days the professor considers herself an advocate of “the non-video school of MOOCs.”

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Coursera was a pioneer in offering MOOCs, or massive open online courses, in partnership with hundreds of top colleges. While attention around MOOCs has died down, the company seems to have found a business model for free courses with something it calls Specializations.

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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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EdTech4Beginners

APRIL 2, 2017

FC – Flipped Classroom ( click here for my guide to flipping lessons ). MOOC – Massively Open Online Course (an online course which has video lectures, problem solving activities, texts and an online community of fellow learners). CMS – Content Management System (a tool to build websites and apps). DOK – Depth Of Knowledge.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2020

New study in @PNASNews on MOOC persistence- 2.5 Teachers have long pushed back against these general ideas [about teaching innovation] by saying, ‘But my classroom is different,’” Kizilcec says. “If If we embrace that [attitude] too much, then we can throw all the science out and make every classroom a snowflake classroom.”

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 11, 2017

In an effort to bring this latest learning science to educators, the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation has connected its Learning Differences MOOC-Ed with Digital Promise Global’s Learner Positioning System to create a micro-credential stack focusing on learner diversity and students’ learning differences.

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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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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Every Classroom Matters Episode 193 When you see an accomplished educator like Alec Couros, it is easy to think that he’s always been this way. VIF Learning has lesson plans, classroom connections and many ways for educators to connect and join classrooms to become globally connected. Every Classroom Matters Episode 193.

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