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). But it doesn’t have to be that way.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 18, 2020

Technology has vastly disrupted and improved numerous sectors around the world, be it the government and banking, or retail and marketing. Unsurprisingly, technology is also impacting the world of education. Blockchain technology is a distributed encrypted database that exists in multiple computers at the same time. 3D Printing.

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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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Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 28, 2020

Escape technology, people, and worries. Twitter Chats, webinars, MOOCs, online courses, online conferences, virtual events, livestreams, Edcamps, Facebook groups, #Hashtags. Virtual conferences, summits and events. Online courses and MOOCs. Tips and Resources. “Take rest; a ?eld ” – Ovid.

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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

With the two last directors of the federal Office of Education Technology, Richard Culatta and Joseph South, at the helms of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), it is no surprise that the organization is seeking to expand and rebrand.

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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

JUNE 17, 2020

More than 70 efforts are underway around the world to use blockchain technology in education, and most set their sights on better connecting people with job opportunities, according to a new report published by the American Council on Education. the fact that not everyone can access digital technology.

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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

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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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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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

DECEMBER 10, 2019

This week’s podcast is brought to you by UNC Chapel Hill’s Master of Arts in Educational Innovation, Technology, and Entrepreneurship Program, known as the MEITE Program : MEITE is for students pursuing careers in the educational technology industry. Zachary Davis, who runs that annual conference for educational podcasters, agrees. “I

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2016

So earlier this summer, researchers at Stanford and Ithaka S+R, a nonprofit education consulting firm, brought together 70 representatives—mostly from academia, but also from government, leading nonprofits and the commercial education technology industry—to discuss some of the hot-button issues surrounding big data in higher education.

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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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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

JANUARY 1, 2018

In a Q&A, Boyer discusses his flipped syllabus, integrating technology into course design, and why an easy A requires a lot of hard work. 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.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2018

In those days the platform was called Venture Lab, and 78,000 students from 150 countries signed up for its first course, which was on technology entrepreneurship. 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.

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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!) The Learning 2.0 Learning 2.0

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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 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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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2020

I received some of that largess 20 years ago in grants to launch virtual master’s degrees, among the very first in the nation, when I was dean of ”web-based distance learning” at Stevens Institute of Technology, a small New Jersey college perched on the Hudson.

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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

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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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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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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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

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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techieMusings

MAY 19, 2016

Their school is committed to organization-wide change to effectively infuse technology into the curriculum and they are truly forward-thinking in their approach; the school has already implemented many innovative teaching practices and spaces. Their MOOC worktime is an assigned period within their school day. Math Rotation Model.

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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

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. The time has come for colleges to form much deeper academic alliances with other institutions.

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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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

China’s state-run Xinhua News Agency introduced its newest anchor to attendees at the World Internet Conference in the country’s eastern Zhejiang Province last week. The higher-order thinking that researchers predict will survive impending technological advancement is precisely the one in teachers’ toolkits.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 13, 2014

Flipped classes, Massive Open Online Courses and Mind Technologies. The future of education and the potential impact of new and emerging technologies. I had the pleasure of meeting Michael face to face a week or so later when I keynoted the Future of Higher Education conference in Sydney, and we were able to continue our conversation.

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Edsurge

MARCH 24, 2017

First the numbers: In the past year, we have published more than 300 articles about the shifting trends in higher ed, education technology and digital learning. Discovering MOOCs in 2012 lit a fire under me. Ray Batra: EdSurge promotes how technology can support teaching and learning, but it doesn’t do so uncritically.

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