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.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Join me today, Wednesday, September 26th, for a one-hour live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar on the "true history" of the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) with Dave Cormier, Alec Couros, Stephen Downes, Rita Kop, Inge de Waard, and Carol Yeager. The research entails the use of qualitative measures and data mining.

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MIND Research Institute

MAY 17, 2017

Maybe you want to develop your personal learning network on social media, read a few new books , or take a course alongside other educators. Below, we have collected some Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) as well as open courseware, so you can choose your own learning adventure this summer. Mathematical Mindsets.

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Doug Levin

MAY 12, 2015

I don’t fret much at all over some of what Clark raises: the acceptance and/or lack of broader cheer-leading for Wikipedia, MOOCs, or Khan Academy as success stories. Of course, money is hugely important for K-12 education and a key benefit to adopting OER. K-12 context. Now don’t get me wrong.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2018

And we also mulled over thorny emerging issues, such as the role social media plays in designing our lives, and concerns about the corporatization of education. MOOCs are No Longer Massive. Once upon a time, free online courses known as MOOCs made national headlines.

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EdTechSandyK

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Notes from MOOCs for Professional Development Presentation at TCEA 2015 Dr. Kay Abernathy, Lamar University [link] Lamar University sponsored the MOOC on Social Media Communication Tools for Educators which Dr. Abernathy facilitated. You can build up to five MOOCs for free on this platform. link] What is a MOOC?

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2018

Amid the futuristic glitz and glamour, the company announced plans to roll out a new set of short-term series of online courses, called Nanodegrees, all in part of the company’s growing push towards jobs-training. That may look like more courses and programs around app development, for example. Udacity's self-driving car.

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eSpark

APRIL 7, 2022

The aspects of games that make them enjoyable are used in a classroom setting, such as player control, opportunities for leveling up, immediate feedback, and social connection. MOOC refers to a massive online open course, a type of distance learning. Digital citizenship refers to appropriate and responsible use of technology.

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Trends MOOC Differentiated Instruction BYOD 97

TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

From Zoom to Skype to Webinars and even live streaming on social media itself, video is perhaps the most visible and common form of technological innovation in K-12 and higher ed. Video, of course, enables other innovations. Comparing an unsupported MOOC from 2008 to an in-person college experience isn’t apples to apples.

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ProfHacker

JANUARY 19, 2016

Jargon: Someone uses the term MOOC. Most people I communicate with on Twitter are fully aware of what a MOOC is. Poor soul gets 10 different replies because everyone else knows what a MOOC is and is trying to be helpful. Of course, context matters (heavily) outside of social media. It could get embarrassing.

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Educator Innovator

MAY 12, 2014

This online opportunity is open to anyone interested in learning how to use Twitter and other media sharing applications to promote social and civic discourse with students and will take place this summer from July 7 – August 17. using social media tools.

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Bryan Alexander

MAY 18, 2022

So I started asking around, bugging individuals and querying social media. Would-be learners can explore course catalogs, too. Learning Experience Canvas – a pdf worksheet which nicely guides you in course design. Mighty Networks Courses – provides hosting and tools for creating online classes.

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Learning with 'e's

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

mobile learning and a whole host of other themes during the course. That germ of an idea evolved over the course of the two hour session into something beyond anything I could ever have planned. Their task would be to create a new wiki page, and begin to populate it with resources related to MOOCs.

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Educator Innovator

MAY 12, 2014

This online opportunity is open to anyone interested in learning how to use Twitter and other media sharing applications to promote social and civic discourse with students and will take place this summer from July 7 – August 17. using social media tools. MOOC Ends August 17.

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EdTechnocation.com

APRIL 2, 2014

Here is my Unit 2 reflection for the MOOC-Ed, Coaching Digital Learning: Cultivating a Culture of Change. What do you see as the most important advantages of adding social media tools to your personal learning network? Each social media tool provides its own advantages to any PLN.

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ProfHacker

AUGUST 18, 2015

With increased pressure on classroom spaces, many departments are moving courses online. I’ve written here at ProfHacker about teaching online previously, but in that past experience I was teaching a very small synchronous online course. Adopt strategies from MOOCs and other large-scale courses.

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Edsurge

MAY 14, 2017

I could see that my students were distracted by social media during the lecture. For instance, Marginal Revolution University , created by two economics professors at George Mason University, offers a growing catalogue of free video-based economics courses via its website.

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 3, 2013

This is due to the rapid proliferation of mobile technology, the disintermediation of traditional teacher and student roles, new trends such as MOOCs and the upsurge of user generated content on social media sites - all of which take learning away from previously familiar territory.

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Learning with 'e's

MAY 9, 2013

From individual students learning informally by browsing on their handhelds, to small flipped classrooms, to vast groups of learners following a programme of study on massive online open courses ( MOOCs ), education is changing to become learner driven. Often this is because it is something of an alien concept to them.

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Hack Education

APRIL 30, 2020

Teachers, of course, know how to shift this physical setting — move the chairs around, for example. If, as promised, these machines could allow students to move through course materials at their own pace without teacher supervision, there had to be — had to be — some mechanism to prevent deceptive behavior.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

Building Hard Skills: There are so many courses nowadays (online, especially—thanks edtech!) You can find these courses in all shapes and sizes, from an intensive all-day program or coding bootcamp to an hour-long course you can fit into your schedule. Check out our growing list of MOOCs and Courses on the EdSurge Index.

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

In course design this is often stated as an aim, or an objective, or even in some quarters, a goal. Of course, they responded. Choosing courses at college or university has a semblance of autonomy, but traditionally, this has never really been the case. Autonomy figures strongly, as does our desire for mastery. Unported License.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 25, 2012

Held over the course of two days (three actual calendar days when including all time zones), there will likely be over 150 presentations. Learning 2.0 is a unique chance to participate in a global conversation on rethinking teaching and learning in the age of the Internet.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

They have to know social media. For example, here at Bentley if you're a marketing major or majoring in creative industries and potentially going into something in the marketing or social media space, you can be proficient and certified in HubSpot technology. They need analytical skills.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 27, 2012

For Alec, the end goals of open teaching are "social, collaborative, self-determined, and sustained, life-long learning." His graduate and undergraduate courses help current and future educators understand how to use and take advantage of the educational potential offered by the tools of connectivity.

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Blackboard MOOC Digital Citizenship Social Media 52

EdTechSandyK

APRIL 8, 2014

edX - www.edex.org - MOOC site, courses are all free, people who teach the courses are from Harvard, MIT, Berkeley, University of Texas, etc. Coursera is another option for higher ed MOOCS. November''s son is taking courses through edX and will get an associate''s degree from Harvard. Click here to see all of them.)

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Tom Murray

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

When I got connected on social media, my lens was expanded and I became aware additional organizations, as well as their supporting tools and resources. During my time as a public school employee, I’d occasionally hear about educational organizations that were working to support schools in some capacity.

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eSpark

APRIL 7, 2022

The aspects of games that make them enjoyable are used in a classroom setting, such as player control, opportunities for leveling up, immediate feedback, and social connection. MOOC refers to a massive online open course, a type of distance learning. Digital citizenship refers to appropriate and responsible use of technology.

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Trends MOOC Differentiated Instruction BYOD 52

Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 10, 2012

Just look at her profile: She is a teacher trainer, author, and international speaker, is the host of American TESOL’s Free Friday Webinars and the Social Media Community Manager for The Consultants-E. What does social media mean to you? It is basically a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course).

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2018

Or, as Aneesa Davenport, Social Media & Analytics Manager for EdSurge, suggested, perhaps give them a periodic “check-up?” RSVP for our next #DLNchat: How Have MOOCs Impacted Approaches to Student Learning? #DLNchat -ters voiced the need to create algorithms and other AI systems within carefully construed ethical frameworks.

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Learning with 'e's

OCTOBER 29, 2012

The ethos of heutagogy extends to learner choice, where students can create their own programmes of study, a feature often seen in the loose and unstructured aspects of some Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs).

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Learning with 'e's

OCTOBER 30, 2011

Those of us who are residents in the land of social media already know the truth of this, but it's nice to see it opined on the pages of a mainstream publication. Kamenetz eulogises over blogs which she describes as nodes in a vast, informal network of learning and opportunity.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 10, 2012

is a free conference and is held online, in multiple time zones, over the course of five days. We have an incredible lineup of keynote speakers and some GREAT practitioner sessions--AND there is still time for you to sign up to present (we hope you will do so)! Learning 2.0 PRESENTING: The Learning 2.0

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 20, 2014

I used distance education courses to complete a Masters degree and soon was involved in distance education delivery for a local community college. Now of course access means time and place shifting for distance education students who mostly live in large cities. Terry: Of course the proliferation of web 2.0

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Hack Education

JULY 7, 2017

” Some of these experimental sites included MOOCs and coding bootcamps. “ Unique International College used a misleading and unlawful scheme to target vulnerable communities in 2014 and 2015, pushing individuals to enrol in courses in management, salon management and marketing.” State and Local) Education Politics.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2016

We can hope that a long list of courses in a drop down menu format will be shelved in favor of a user-friendly interface full of video, engaging content and search engines that allow learners to find the most relevant information they need in the online space.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

He’s credited with co-teaching the first MOOC in 2008, introduced the theory of “connectivism”—the idea that knowledge is distributed across digital networks—and spearheaded research projects about the role of data and analytics in education. Blogs, wikis and social media, on the other hand, are distributed across networks.

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