EdTech4Beginners

APRIL 2, 2017

BLearning – Blended Learning (using a range of multimedia and strategies). BYOL – Bring Your Own Learning. LMS – Learning Management System (software that runs and manages educational programs). MLD – Mobile Learning Devices. MLearning – Mobile Learning. NGDLE – Next-generation Digital Learning Environment.

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Edsurge

JULY 23, 2021

Even though the cost of delivering online courses was then far less than on campus, we worried that if colleges set a lower price for remote instruction, students and their families might get the wrong impression, with lower prices signaling that digital learning was less valuable.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2019

The department is hiring for more than a dozen new designer, developer and strategy jobs, including for an associate director for media technology and innovation. Last year one of its courses ranked fifth in total enrollments of all MOOCs offered on Coursera, a MOOC platform.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MARCH 10, 2018

Get your copy of Hacking Digital Learning , The 30 Goals Challenge , or Learning to Go. Find strategies for specific behaviors at PBISWorld. Joy Radio Show and Marisa Constantinides ( @Marisa_C ), Director of Studies of CELT Athens (where I received my CELTA) and author of TEFL Matters.

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2020

Insights that derive from dialog between K-12, higher education, and online-learning providers could well shape instructional practices for the better as students return to school, whether in a classroom or over Zoom. Instructors have also experimented with lecture formats that did away with podiums and blackboards.

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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

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

A new book, “ Learning Innovation and the Future of Higher Education ,” looks at how to create systems that apply the science of learning into actual teaching. Learn More at www.destinationsacademy.com/school-districts. The hype around MOOCs and other disruptive tech at colleges has faded.

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MOOC Education Industry Course 200

eSchool News

JULY 22, 2024

If a student had an interest in learning about something, and we didn’t have a teacher qualified to teach that or who had experience teaching it, we were allowing students to self-design programs of study around an area of interest through a MOOC or Coursera. We had some experience with online learning.”

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Strategy Moodle Learning Blended Learning 111

Teacher Reboot Camp

JANUARY 30, 2018

Any teacher is invited to join and walk through the steps of learning how to regularly set instructional goals and transform the teaching and learning in their classes. Unlike most professional development, we work with you in finding out which goal setting strategies work best for you.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2018

MOOCs are No Longer Massive. Once upon a time, free online courses known as MOOCs made national headlines. So we talked with Dhawal Shah, founder and CEO of Class Central, who has been tracking MOOCs closely ever since he was a student in one of those first Stanford open courses, about how MOOCs have evolved.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2021

One key advantage that Coursera may have is its sizable user base of 77 million learners, says Sean Gallagher, founder and executive director of Northeastern University's Center for the Future of Higher Education and Talent Strategy. In terms of sheer numbers, Coursera has raced ahead of the pack.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

One Ivy, Columbia University, actually got an early start 35 years ago at the dawn of the digital age, when it launched its Video Network that now produces about a dozen online engineering master’s degrees. The staff partners with each new program, transferring skills to help build their own digital toolkits.“We

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

In part, this adopts a model some MIT professors already use, called a Small Private Online Course, or SPOC —a customized adaption of the Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs, that sparked wide attention a decade ago.

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EdTechnocation.com

MARCH 19, 2014

Last week, the MOOC-Ed, Coaching Digital Learning: Cultivating a Culture of Change , began. What are the most Effective Coaching Strategies and the what are the Biggest Challenges ? What strategies have you found effective in your coaching? You can still register for the MOOC-Ed and participate!

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EdTechnocation.com

APRIL 18, 2014

In Unit 4 of the Coaching Digital Learning MOOC-Ed , we learned about the 4 Cs of Digital Age skills: Communication, Collaboration, Critical Thinking, and Creativity. Follow Michael''s board Coaching Digital Learning, #CDL_MOOCed on Pinterest.

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MOOC Digital Learning Learning Google 28

Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2023

And it’s not the only high-tech strategy that Coursera employs to shepherd users through courses. But learning online remains a hard nut to crack. Today’s online courses are evolved cousins of the early MOOC, or massive open online course. The year of the MOOC may be long over.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Just as formal education systems made a dramatic shift to digital since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, on-the-job training is changing as well. The same forces that transformed classrooms have accelerated the adoption of more digital learning in workplace training—advancing a trend that was already underway.

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Linways Technologies

APRIL 22, 2020

Learning is no more institutionalized, and people still take courses and grow their skillset beyond colleges or universities. So to be on the current, institutions should focus on how to engage with the students, how to assure a certain level of quality in teaching-learning, and how digital learning is perceived.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Some have tried a slight-of-hand strategy, called “ tuition resets ,” in which colleges announce a cut, only to roll back grants and scholarships, keeping the net price just where it was before they marketed enticing, but deceptive, lower prices.

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The PL2C Blog

AUGUST 24, 2014

What does it take to effectively guide educators to use instructional technology to directly support and enhance student learning and content mastery? How can you share with others how your role impacts highly effective digital age learning and teaching? More About the Coaching Digital Learning MOOC-Ed.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

The Future of Learning: Convergence of VR, AR, & AI : Treating future technologies as complementary, rather than separate, tools is the best path toward immersive learning. The Evolution of MOOCs: Six Years Later : Are MOOCs still around? Higher Ed 11:00 a.m. Our goal: generate those “Aha!”

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2020

Watch the complete forum below: Or listen to the full discussion on our EdSurge Live podcast feed: You can also read the highlights from the partial transcript below, which has been lightly edited for clarity.

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The PL2C Blog

AUGUST 24, 2015

Instructional Technology Coaches Shape Their Future During a MOOC-Ed. Based on context and role, participants used the ITCAP template to create their personal coaching vision and goals, along with specific activities and steps extrapolated from the weekly MOOC-Ed content and their experiences. By: Lisa Hervey.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2021

Because, as edtech consultant and blogger Phil Hill argues, Coursera’s latest strategy relies on so-called “network effects” that come when one platform gains a critical mass of users and offerings.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

EdSurge: Udacity rode the wave of hype around MOOCs, massive open online courses, when the company started back in 2011. But more recently, the company’s co-founder, Sebastian Thrun, has insisted that Udacity is not a MOOC company. How do the so-called Nanodegrees that Udacity delivers differ?

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Diverse by Design: Creating CS Programs for All : When working to diversity computer science programs, strategies often look to improve existing programs rather than designing better programs for all from the get-go. But the technology lends a question: to what extent should educational products make assumptions about a user’s end goal?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2016

In the Deloitte research , just 8 percent of the companies involved were found to currently have dedicated CPD programs for their human resources employees although learning & development was rated as the 5th most important growth area with 84 percent of respondents characterising it as important or very important.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

But there’s hope—the Stanford researcher completed a 500-paper lit review with professors Linda-Darling Hammond and Shelley Goldman to identify five actionable tips to provide equitable digital learning opportunities to low-income students. Yet only 50 percent said they have adequate solutions and strategies to help.

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Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Skepticism about the quality of online learning could migrate to the general population. And the MOOC numbers look like they’re rising. Unless the worm turns globally, I’d expect planet MOOC to keep growing in 2016. We still see the majority of campuses failing to formally recognize professors’ digital work.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Candidate Advanced math for the young, the very young, and the young at heart - Dr. - Sueann Galt, STEM Coordinator Does the use of ‘Learning Menus’ increase students’ intrinsic motivation? Smith, Director of Programs Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for STEM - Revolutionary or Evolutionary?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Steve Hargadon Library 2.014 Conference Founder and Co-Chair CONNECTED LIBRARIAN DAY SCHEDULE (US-Eastern Daylight Time) For full details and any last-minute updates, be sure to follow the live schedule at: [link] Tuesday, October 7 3:30pm Welcome and About the Landscape with Britten Follett, Joyce Valenza, Ross Todd & Shannon Miller 4:00pm Heidi (..)

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Michaelsen (Teacher and school leader, Sandvika vgs) Anne Mirtschin (Hawkesdale P12 College, Australia) Pam Moran (Superintendent of Schools, Albemarle County Public Schools) Jean-Luc Moreau (President, EvalUE association) Dana Mortenson (CEO + Co-founder, World Savvy) Jennie Niles (DC's Deputy Mayor of Education) Lori Roe (Instructional Technology (..)

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JULY 28, 2017

I actually did this for one of my Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). Find out more about mission minded learning in my new book, Hacking Digital Learning Strategies: 10 Ways to Launch EdTech Missions in Your Classroom. Give digital badges or set it up to where students can level up on a leaderboard !

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Koedinger sees three main areas of learning engineering, which together give flight to the learner. The first is to hone and clearly scope out what students need to learn in any given situation. The second is to improve strategies for how students take in that information and retain it. That’s known as the metacognitive realm.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Pearson said it would shift its strategy and make all its textbooks “ digital first ” (which you just know is going to cost students more). Carnegie Mellon announced it would open source its digital learning software. Something about "learning engineers". ASU ends its MOOC experiment , Global Freshman Academy.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2017

To get a glimpse into what the next 12 months will hold for everything from professional development to digital learning, and from communication to virtual reality, 15 ed tech luminaries looked back on 2016 edtech trends to help predict what’s in store for 2017. MOOCs continued to increase in number and attendance.

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Hack Education

APRIL 13, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). The Guardian headline says , “Secret rightwing strategy to discredit teacher strikes,” but it’s not that secret. From Science Alert : “ Evidence Shows Students Still Learn More Effectively From Print Textbooks Than Screens.”

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