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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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Teaching Channel Presenter: Five Essential Practices in the Elementary ELL Classroom Presenter at the Good Teaching Conference (2016, 2019)- Using HyperLinks in Classroom Curriculum, Design Thinking with MakeyMakeys Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) Video with San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) Multilingual Department Presenter at SFUSD (..)

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 18, 2020

There’s even an annual event dedicated to this field called the International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge, which will be held in Germany this March. MOOCS (massive online open courses) are different from virtual classes, and are usually offered by colleges and universities. 3D Printing. Artificial Intelligence.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 28, 2020

Twitter Chats, webinars, MOOCs, online courses, online conferences, virtual events, livestreams, Edcamps, Facebook groups, #Hashtags. Virtual conferences, summits and events. Online courses and MOOCs. Games, Karaoke, Dancing, Exercise, Celebrations, Watch Parties. Netflixparty.com. quarantinegamessorted. Eventbrite.co.uk.

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Ed Tech from the Ground Up

JANUARY 23, 2017

Over the years, LearnLaunch's Across Boundaries conference has engendered conversations on everything from STEM learning to augmented reality. The 2017 conference in Boston is coming up. The post Ed-Tech Startup Conference Pushes Boundaries appeared first on Market Brief.

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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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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

ISTE is traditionally known for its annual edtech conference, which draws as many as 15,000 people each year. And it is looking to rebrand its annual conference as well, to stress that the event is just one service offered by the group, not the main attraction.

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The Web20Classroom

OCTOBER 28, 2013

The conference is full of some of the brightest minds and best conversations. When the conference gets underway you will also be able to tap into what is happening at the conference. When the conference gets underway you will also be able to tap into what is happening at the conference. First, what is WISE?

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2019

MOOCs, shorthand for massive open online courses, have been widely critiqued for their miniscule completion rates. This does not necessarily make MOOCs a failure. That’s a far cry from five years ago, when only 5 percent of the students were finishing the MOOCs I was designing. Use the power of peer pressure.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2019

Instead, MOOC providers see an opportunity in helping medical professionals keep their knowledge and skills up to date after they graduate, a field also known as continuing medical education (CME). Doctors or nurses looking to fulfill CME credits can attend conferences, in-person classes other existing online CME courses.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2020

Colleges Confer Digital Diplomas Institutions including Central New Mexico Community College, Maryville University and Southern New Hampshire University are granting students digital diplomas and transcripts through the company Hyland Credentials (formerly Learning Machine). The San Jose State University School of Information is finding out.

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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

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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Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2016

McKay attended the summer meeting at the Asilomar Conference Grounds in California. As part of that goal, attendees at this summer’s conference drafted a set of voluntary ethical principles to help schools address big data’s challenges. Kent Wada of UCLA, who attended both this summer’s conference and its predecessor in 2014, agrees.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 16, 2020

The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), for instance, hosts an annual conference and exposition to highlight technological enhancements in the classroom. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are also excellent resources, offering free classes from world-renowned universities. Enroll in an online program.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 25, 2012

We have three great world-wide virtual conferences coming up in the next few months. This conference has a short lead time (right around the corner!), The conference will also include an all-day virtual unconference (SocialEdCon online!) They are part of my Web 2.0 Learning 2.0 ( [link] ) August 20 - 24, 2012 Just announced!

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 10, 2012

virtual conference is just around the corner (August 20 - 24 [link] ). is a free conference and is held online, in multiple time zones, over the course of five days. The conference includes an all-day virtual unconference (SocialEdCon online!) All sessions will also be recorded and posted quickly after the conference.)

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Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2018

Several students dropped a bombshell at the New Media Consortium summer conference last June, telling educators they are not as tech-savvy as society paints them as. 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.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Today the fifth annual Global Education Conference kicks off. To see the the full conference schedule in your own time zone, with the direct links to session rooms, go to the conference schedule page. To continue to receive daily conference schedule lists by email, be sure to join the conference network.

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2021

With an investment fund, a conference and a constellation of advisory services, GSV may be the closest thing to an omnipresent brand in education investing. Its portfolio includes “unicorns” like Coursera, one of the original MOOCs that is reportedly exploring options to go public. Specifically, across the ocean. billion in 2017.

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2017

EdSurge sat down with Cottom this week at the Education Writers Association’s annual conference in Washington D.C. You also pointed out that MOOCs don’t receive much buzz today as three years ago. So do you think MOOCs paved the way for the online programs that we’re seeing more and more of? Then yep, we’re on board.”

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2018

A red carpet and a self-driving car were just a few of the things attendees saw on Tuesday at Intersect, the third annual conference put on by online learning provider Udacity. Conference attendees wait in line on a red carpet to ride in Udacity's self-driving car.

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The 21st Century Principal

JANUARY 25, 2014

There are plenty of opportunities to learn more about ed tech at this year''s Ohio Educational Technology Conference beginning this Monday January 27. Here''s the Keynote Speaker lineup for this year''s conference. For more information about the Ohio Educational Technology Conference 2014 visit their Website.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2018

At the time they were not alone in their efforts; Coursera, Udacity (both of which were also co-founded by Stanford professors) and edX had launched MOOC platforms a year earlier. Conversations with Devonshire Investors started at the ASU+GSV Summit, an education technology conference, this past April.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2020

At high-level strategy sessions at conference tables in president’s and provost’s offices at colleges across the country, academic leaders are not commonly arguing over the pedagogical merits of constructivist theories, but are anxiously calculating how to go online without going under.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

A Need for Speed in Learning Experts at conferences have been talking for years about “the future of work”—how automation and other forces will reshape the job market, and how colleges need to create new kinds of offerings that are more flexible. Department of Education. Listen to the conversation below, or read highlights below.

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The Shake Up Learning Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Outside Conferences and Workshops. These means that Google Classroom could be used to provide supplemental information, resources, and follow-up for outside conference and workshops. Educators could share notes, links to presentations, and continue to collaborate beyond the conference or workshop.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2019

Chip Paucek, CEO and co-founder of 2U “When we think about the trajectory of a learner, from college to a masters program to a MOOC or to a bootcamp, there is a lot of opportunity for universities to play a role across that spectrum and reinvent themselves,” Paucek tells EdSurge in an interview. “If

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2018

Well,” DeVos answered, “we are at an innovation conference, and I believe that teachers can and are innovators—and believe that we actually have to free up teachers to be able to be a lot more innovative in their own classrooms.” At one point, DeVos asked the panelists pointedly what they would do if they had her job for a day.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 9, 2013

This is the official call for presentation proposals for the Library 2.013 Worldwide Virtual Conference, October 18 - 19, 2013 (in some time zones the conference will conclude on the 20th). Click Here to Submit a Proposal The Library 2.013 Worldwide Virtual Conference is our third installment of the Library 2.0

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Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

Some new services and platforms will emerge to cater for different forms of learning, MOOCs will evolve and improve and open badges will be hot. The MOOC backlash. Of course I have to start with MOOCs. The MOOC backlash started in earnest in 2013. MOOC providers will keep on refining them. Introduction.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2016

It’s time once again for The Hulk of edtech conferences— Educause , which kicks off fully on Wednesday in Anaheim, Calif. When he first started the account in 2010, he told no one, and he snuck to corners of the conference center so no one would catch him in the 140-character act. It’s big, expecting some 7,000 attendees.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Every year in March the edtech world descends on Austin for SXSW EDU, a conference that’s become as much about classroom practice and implementation as entrepreneurship and tech innovation. The Evolution of MOOCs: Six Years Later : Are MOOCs still around? Higher Ed 11:00 a.m.

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techieMusings

MAY 19, 2016

They have hosted a variety of conferences at their school, including an Interactive Technologies Conference and the Australia/New Zealand FlipCon. Sophomores have the opportunity to spend a period of their day learning through a MOOC of their choosing. Their MOOC worktime is an assigned period within their school day.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 10, 2013

This is an update of the worldwide virtual conferences from Web 2.0 We''ve been calling them "Conference 2.0," but I''m thinking instead of calling them SMOOChes --Synchronous and Massive Open Online Collaborations. We are also looking for global advisory board members who can help publicize the conference in their local areas.

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Educator Innovator

JUNE 14, 2013

After a Department of Education kick-off at the Reimagining Education Conference and initial practitioner learning opportunities by partners Scratch, the Afterschool Alliance, and Mozilla Webmakers, the Summer of Making and Connecting kicks into even higher gear with the launch of Maker Party 2013 and the Making Learning Connected mooc on June 15.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2017

The most common of alliances, of course, are athletic conferences. One early version of this new kind of partnership was used to build and deliver Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) through alliances like Coursera and edX.

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