Learning with 'e's

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

By comparison, in its technology supported multiple formats, contemporary distance education is much more sophisticated. Earlier still, were the cave paintings of early man a primitive form of distance education? They were surely an asynchronous form of instruction, a sort of same place - different time learning. We have come a long way.

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Fractus Learning

JANUARY 17, 2017

Trust me, he’ll like this comparison!) If you need proof: last year I participated in an Innovator’s Mindset MOOC (#IMMOOC) conducted by George and several of his high-profile colleagues. Canadian based and internationally known educator George Couros is somewhat of a pop star in the digital world that I inhabit.

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 18, 2016

The discussion of digital changes (76-82) touches on high points (cost, commodification, MOOCs), but comes to no conclusions or recommendations. For example, McGee shares excellent data about the high school graduating population dropping recently, then flatlining for the next decade (23-24). ” (30).

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 18, 2016

The discussion of digital changes (76-82) touches on high points (cost, commodification, MOOCs), but comes to no conclusions or recommendations. For example, McGee shares excellent data about the high school graduating population dropping recently, then flatlining for the next decade (23-24). ” (30).

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

As an instructional designer who has been building MOOCs for the past five years, I’ve been asked this question more times than I count. MOOCs have been called abysmal , disappointing failures. The average completion rate for MOOCs (including the ones I design) hovers between 5-15 percent. This skepticism is not unwarranted.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

It’s a major pain point in the education system: Between 40 percent to 60 percent of college students now need some form of remedial math, or English, or both, and the United States ranks 36th out of a comparison group of 79 countries in math proficiency, according to the 2018 Programme for International Student Assessment.

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Education Learning Software Knewton 218

NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

However, at each level—middle school, high school, and college—these variations paled in comparison to a stunning and dismaying consistency. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations. That was certainly the case in our experience.

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Assessment Analysis Social Media Libraries 60

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity. The quotation is from 2012.

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Hack Education

APRIL 20, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). I’d love to see a comparison between Pluralsight and Lynda.com.). ” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. There’s coding bootcamp news in the venture capital section below. And some follow-up from Tressie McMillan Cottom.). ” (Psst.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

” The Parent Coalition for Student Privacy has thoughts on the pushback , making the comparison between Zuckerberg ’s corporate and philanthropic efforts and inBloom. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). The Salt Lake City school board has voted to rename Jackson Elementary.

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Lenovo Education Facebook MOOC 52

Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). EdWeek’s Market Brief on a report by Allovue : “ K–12 District Spending Analysis Raises Red Flag About ESSA School Comparisons.” More on the for-profit formerly known as Kaplan University in the online education section below.

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Education Company Blackboard Kaplan 43

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Responses to last week’s news about Western Governors University and the audit of its competency-based offerings: Via NPR : “Who Is A College Teacher, Anyway? Adults Outperformed by Rest of Developed World in Numeracy , New Comparison Finds.” Rural ones.”

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