Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The kinds of data states say they keep track of in SHEEO’s “Strong Foundations” surveys—fielded five times between 2010 and 2020—include demographics (like gender, race/ethnicity, and age), student metrics (like admissions scores and transfer credits), and degree, course and financial aid information. Postsecondary and Secondary Credentials.”

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Both reports note that most jobs available today require some education or training beyond a high school diploma, and that on average, workers who have post-secondary credentials earn more than those who don’t. Crunching Credentials Data Why expend all this effort researching credentials?

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Secondary Digital Badges MOOC Training 133

Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

For example, most of the enrolled students in fully asynchronous MOOCs are adults, and even in this context, completion can be challenging. By contrast, many secondary school students are capable of completing well-scaffolded asynchronous activities.

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Learning Online Learning Outcomes Groups 218

Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Avida is the husband of Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller, and one of the first board members of the company that helped put the spotlight on massive online open courses, or MOOCs. It was never secondary for me, as it is for some faculty,” she says. The couple is no longer with Coursera, which is now valued at $2.5

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Coursera Personalized Learning Learning Blackboard 151

eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2021

Chinese 1 through AP® Chinese Language and Culture courses will be added to the more than 250 online courses currently offered by VHS Learning. We know there is a huge demand for Chinese language instruction, but not all high schools have the staff or resources to offer these courses.

Technology 97

Technology Course MOOC Learning 97

Edsurge

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The report divides these credentials into 18 categories across four types of providers: postsecondary educational institutions, MOOC organizations, secondary schools and non-academic entities. New to the research this year is a count of how many groups in the U.S. provide credentials: 59,692. What About Value and Quality?

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Outcomes Training MOOC Data 161

Tom Murray

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

The Alliance focuses on America’s six million most at-risk secondary school students—those in the lowest achievement quartile—who are most likely to leave school without a diploma or to graduate unprepared for a productive future. National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP). Connect: www.nassp.org , @NASSP.

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Future Ready Secondary Advocacy Elementary 100

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Years before the University of Phoenix launched its first online course in the U.S., powered by CompuServe, an early online service provider, the University of Toronto, achieved the historical distinction of running the world’s first-ever completely online course five years earlier in 1986. In the U.S.,

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Online Learning Learning Mobility Blackboard 159

Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2018

That's an interesting dynamic where so much of this is at this intersection of not just higher ed or post-secondary education world, but it's also what's happening in terms of employer training. There's a lot more competition and the boundaries between academic credit and noncredit training are blurring.

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Coursera Trends MOOC Training 128

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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Course MOOC Secondary STEM 40

ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 1, 2019

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. Dr. Neelam Parmar; Director of E-learning for Primary & Secondary Schools. These need to be carefully selected and modified to ensure they are appropriate for pupils.

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Blended Learning Learning Khan Academy MOOC 170

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

These are purchasing programs in which “institutions are signing up whole classes of students to automatically receive digital course materials at a discounted rate, rather than purchasing individually.” ” What problem does the inclusive access model purport to solve? The inappropriately high cost of textbooks.

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OER Accessibility Pearson MOOC 249

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2018

Of course, what you study also matters a great deal. Sure, but the hype around MOOCs, or massive open online courses, said that people would start finding a cheap online replacement for college and that hasn’t happened. I’m not arguing for a reduction in the aggregate or per-capita level of post-secondary education.

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Secondary Outcomes Industry MOOC 84

Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2016

As a senior in high school he persuaded his parents to upgrade their internet speed so that he could stream online course videos from MIT. He managed to earn a perfect score in the edX Circuits and Electronics course and gain admittance to MIT. primary and secondary education. Why was Battushig so captivating?

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EdTech Company Secondary Coursera 60

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 3, 2011

EPCOP MOOC WEBINAR ( Australia Series ) Mon 5 Sep 09:00PM New York / Tue 6 Sep 01:00AM GMT / Tue 6 Sep 11:00AM Sydney Coach Carole. A free webinar about the E-portfolio Massive Open Online Course (EpCop MOOC), a free e-portfolio professional development activity. Thanks for your attention, and see you online! link] [link]'

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Blackboard MOOC Pearson Secondary 44

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

I am sorry that we're all kicking off fall term online again — well, online is better than dead, of course. This is already happening, of course, with or without the pandemic. Anti-cheating software isn't just about plagiarism, of course. Here's a bit of what I said. The company works both ends of the plagiarism market.

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Robotics Software Company ProctorU 87

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Smith, Director of Programs Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for STEM - Revolutionary or Evolutionary? Playful Learning: Games and the Future of STEM - Danny Fain, Teacher in Residence Redefining STEM Rubrics for the 21’st Century: It’s all about mastery!

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STEM Maker Movement MOOC Common Core 42

Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 24, 2016

I hoped to move on from there to what I called “approaches”, ways of using tech that didn’t depend on a specific platform – i.e., gaming and gamification, blended learning, distance learning, MOOCs, mobile, and digital literacy. Discussion went in some interesting angles, such as secondary education.

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Conference ePortfolio LMS Education 40

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.”) To believe that would require, of course, that we overlook the role that the major technology platforms – Google, Facebook, and Amazon – play in education.

Technology 63

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 63

iLearn Technology

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Hundreds of conferences, workshops, MOOCS, edcamps, professional journals, blogs, the list seriously goes on and on. When we support each student to recognize that they are unique in the course of history, we empower students to engage the world now. There are a lot of options for professional development.

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Conference Edcamps MOOC Education 28

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 19, 2014

link] Moebius Noodles : New open online course for parents + teachers: Multiplication inspired by algebra and calculus, starting April. Secondary teachers and YA librarians: this is a great opportunity for special programming. Engaging and Inspiring Leaders and Learners - Virtual Event. Check out the resources available here.

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Conference Education Learning Common Core 46

NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

SHEG currently offers three impressive curricula that may be put to immediate use in secondary classrooms and libraries. Did you ever wonder how your own students might perform on those dozens of tasks? You can now find out.

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Assessment Analysis Social Media Libraries 60

Wired Campus

APRIL 30, 2015

So we started Versal to really allow anybody to create online courses, assignments, homework assignments, and so on, and really make it as easy as it is to build a PowerPoint. You drag them in the canvas, and you build your courses or the assignment that way. Freedman: I love where you started with the criticism of the MOOCs.

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E-rate Company Course MOOC 28

Wired Campus

MARCH 13, 2015

The event brings together a mix of participants from different parts of education — teachers, administrators, and publishers in elementary, secondary, and higher education. Of course, it’s hard for colleges to tell which new education products are effective in the classroom. Mitchell L.

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Company Digital Badges Secondary Conference 28

A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 25, 2013

OER ranges from highly structured college courses (MOOCs) to less structured curricula from colleges and other institutes of learning (OpenCourseWare a/k/a OCW), to free online textbooks, and everything in between. Open educational resources” (OER) here refers to the many free learning resources now populating the Worldwide Web.

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OER Resources Education Common Core 259

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The Center has run a course for undergraduates since 2007 and has since expanded into secondary schools by hosting summer teacher-training workshops and making course materials available online through its Digital Resource Center. My students are all about social media.

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Social Media Learning Facebook Analysis 40

Edsurge

MAY 15, 2018

that is focused specifically on post-secondary education—anything beyond high school. We estimate about 65 percent of jobs in 2025 will require some form of post-secondary education. Part of the problem with MOOCs was it was the same delivery method. What's the vision behind this? We look more at the system level.

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MOOC Training Secondary Accessibility 118

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). From the Coursera blog : “Announcing ‘ AI for Everyone ’: a new course from deeplearning.ai More robot news up in the MOOC section above. .” Also via NPR : “The Benefits Of Taking Out Loans For College.” on Coursera.”

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Education Coursera Facebook MOOC 55

Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

” But of course, that’s not quite true: my first introduction to Papert's work was actually a decade earlier, when I sat at an Apple II and taught a Turtle how to move about the screen. .” ” This argument is, of course, ridiculously daft, as “the liberal arts” has historically included math and science.

Technology 89

Technology Education Microsoft Industry 89

Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 29, 2017

A Maltese education leader dove into their secondary school laptop initiative. MOOCs… ah, this is fascinating. Once more I saw how the MOOC hype crash is limited to the United States. Presenter after presenter showed MOOC projects under way. Similarities were also there, of course.

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MOOC Technology Education Conference 40

Hack Education

MAY 26, 2016

That pronoun “we,” of course, is used in turn both broadly and narrowly, to include and exclude. Yeats’ poem “Easter, 1916,” of course – but opted, thanks to Donald Trump, to invoke a different, more apocalyptic Yeats. So the title of this talk is “The Rough Beasts of Ed-Tech” instead.

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Conference Course MOOC Technology 64

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Trump’s education platform promises to “make post-secondary options more affordable and accessible through technology enriched delivery models.” ” “Make MOOCs great again.” Inside Higher Ed profiles homework help company Course Hero. — Donald J. Is that possible? Upgrades and Downgrades.

Education 56

Education Common Core Company Facebook 56

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). “ MOOCs no longer massive, still attract millions,” Class Central’s Dhawal Shah claims in a VentureBeat op-ed. Via Education Week’s Market Brief : “ State Testing Disruptions Likely Produced Dips and Gains in Student Scores, Study Says.”

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Khan Academy Education LMS Company 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. Rafter, a course material provider that was an early advocate of and provider for this bundling of textbooks and tuition, closed its doors in 2016 , having raised more than $86 million.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

AUGUST 10, 2018

” The details: “The Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) ruling came after a secondary school student in Germany downloaded a photograph of Cordoba from a travel website to illustrate a presentation which was then published on the school website.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”).

E-rate 44

E-rate Education Robotics Elsevier 44

Hack Education

JULY 8, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “For Students Taking Online Courses, a Completion Paradox.” ” Research from EuroDL : “Massive Open Online Courses and Economic Sustainability.” ” Institut Mines-Télécom joins edX. .”

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Education Report Company Coursera 50

Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

Humphrey testified that he hired Hubbard on a $7,500-per-month consulting contract to connect him to legislative leaders in other states, as Edgenuity tried to sell digital courses.” ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). “Should Your Online Course Sound Like ‘Serial’? .”)

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Education MOOC Company Report 49