Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 28, 2020

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2018

And in the process of trying to educate myself on the matter, I’ve come to a scary realization: Edtech is trapped in Ben Bloom’s basement. For all Silicon Valley’s talk of “disrupting” education, most of the edtech that exists today simply digitizes ineffective aspects of education’s yesteryear. But, I certainly can’t excuse it.

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The Shake Up Learning Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The post 20 New Ways to Use Google Classroom [infographic] appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Expand Your Use of Google Classroom. Google Classroom can be used for so much more than just your traditional classroom LMS. Consider these 20 New Ways to Use Google Classroom. 20 NEW Ways to Use Google Classroom.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2021

A decade ago, large-scale online courses known as MOOCs were all the rage, touted as a possible alternative to traditional college and celebrated in the popular press. Talbert had taken MOOCs back when they first started and was unimpressed. The answer to that is definitely no because there was no professor in the course.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2021

It has the most users of any provider of MOOCs (as the large-scale online courses are sometimes called), claiming more than 77 million learners. Dhawal Shaw, founder of MOOC-discovery platform Class Central. It [can] create this cycle that naturally leads to the winner-takes-all,” says Phil Hill, a longtime edtech consultant. “It

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2017

based edtech startups in 2017 saw a resurgence of investment capital. edtech investments in 2011. edtech companies. MOOC companies typically account for the bump in the “Post-Secondary” category, but aside from Coursera’s $64 million Series D round, few other companies focused in higher education scored a large deal.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2020

While high-resolution data for community colleges isn’t available, we can see evidence for this in proxies such as Google search trends , consumers’ growing openness and intention to study online , booming MOOC enrollment , and publicly-traded online learning company enrollment results.

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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. And edtech is no stranger to it.

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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. In addition, the organization has announced a new platform to review technology tools and a framework for implementing edtech in the classroom.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

And it was just a few years after the launch of the first MOOCs, putting the online higher ed market newly in the spotlight as it continued its steady growth. And major companies and industry groups are increasingly getting into the credentialing game, exemplified by firms such as IBM and Google.

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EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 7, 2018

According to a Google report , almost 80% people don’t exit their homes sans smartphones. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). MOOC is not a new concept in the e-learning industry. Many prestigious universities such as Harvard offers MOOC at minimal or no cost. Smartphones have become an essential part of our lives.

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 2, 2017

The post 20 New Ways to Use Google Classroom [infographic] appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Expand Your Use of Google Classroom. Google has opened up Google Classroom to users outside of G Suite for Education. Users with a personal Google account can now both join and create classes. Keep reading!

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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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TeacherCast

JUNE 20, 2015

In addition, he is a Google Certified Teacher and Google Education Trainer. Kurt is also part of EdTech Sages , LLC, an educational technology training and consulting group. Mapping with google mooc https://mapping.withgoogle.com/. Google My Maps [link]. About our Guests: Kurt Wismer. Show Information.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2018

Microcredentials, and controversial moves and pivots by edtech companies hoping to disrupt the higher education landscape. 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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ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 1, 2019

Neil Rickus ; EdTech Consultant & Former Teacher. 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. There is a great future for blended learning as part of an EdTech strategy. What is blended learning?

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

MOOCs are great ideas, but assessment and feedback loops and certification are among the many issues holding them back. And anymore, they end being the punchline of edtech jokes, somehow. Comparing an unsupported MOOC from 2008 to an in-person college experience isn’t apples to apples.

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eSchool News

JULY 22, 2024

Some teachers had started in Google Classroom, but it was still in its infancy and didn’t have a lot of features at the time. The easiest access point for us was using Google Classroom. It was mainly used by early adopters who were looking for a way to flip their classroom. We had some experience with online learning.”

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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

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

A number of colleges have partnered with big MOOC providers, principally Coursera and edX, to offer large-scale online courses at far lower prices, in part to attract new students to their higher-priced online degrees. But MOOC-based degrees are just at the starting line of what appears to be a rush to hang discount tags on online degrees.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

My classmates from Stanford’s Learning Design and Technology master’s program have gone on to design for big brands like Airbnb and Google as well as edtech upstarts including the African Leadership University, General Assembly, Osmo and Udacity. To get serious about education technology, you have to read Seymour Papert.

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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. Google+ also plays a very important role in my PLN and I feel like is the most effective social media tool for me. Utilizing Google+ communities and hangouts has brought collaboration to a whole new level for me!

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Edsurge

APRIL 21, 2021

Udemy has become one of the best-funded companies in edtech, having raised another $80 million earlier this year, bringing its total raised to nearly $300 million. Udemy’s most popular courses focus on technical and business topics—like how to code in Python or how to use Google Analytics.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 2, 2016

It was an edtech entrepreneur’s dream on Wednesday at Intel’s Education Accelerator Demo Day. raised more than $9 million in a recent Series A round , and handheld wireless sensor company PocketLab is now teaming up with Google to bring the pocket-sized lab equipment to the Google Science Journal.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2022

A simple Google search , for instance, might lead to “$15 off $99 on courses” coupon codes for edX, which provides online courses from some of the world’s most well-known universities. That was one prediction of the late David Noble, a critic of edtech, in the 1997 essay “Digital Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Education.”

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Michael Feldstein, a longtime edtech consultant and blogger, highlighted what he saw as the “hypocrisy” of the deal in a blog post last week. Our brand is more akin to Alphabet than it is to Google. Part of the thing that's so attractive about edX is they did an incredible job building a great worldwide brand,” he said.

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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. So we decided to track down this heroic jokester for a more in-depth interview with the IT official (who we’ll keep anonymous, though you could track him down with a bit of Googling). EdSurge’s Jeffrey R.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Udacity is one of the few edtech companies to gain “unicorn” status, meaning it is valued by investors at over $1 billion. EdSurge: Udacity rode the wave of hype around MOOCs, massive open online courses, when the company started back in 2011. But describing it precisely may be as difficult as finding the mythical creature itself.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Investors in tutoring companies this year included Warbug Pincus, Goldman Sachs, Learn Capital, Y Combinator, the Omidyar Network, Sequoia Capital, TAL Education, Tencent, Google, and of course, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. “EdTech fails to pay, again,” The Financial Times chuckled. Vive la MOOC révolution.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Opinionated Products : There’s a word for the kinds of tools and products—like say, Google search results—which adapt to a user’s behavior: opinionated. Companies like Microsoft, Facebook and Google are all dipping their toes into virtual and augmented reality. to 11:00 p.m. K-12 11:00 a.m. Will VR Really Impact Student Outcomes?

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EdTechTeacher

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

In fact, if you Google “rainbow starburst bracelet” and the official video from the company has been viewed a fraction of the times. As a researcher, Justin has been carrying this concept into his work with MOOCs. However, in the last few years, higher education has listened to the world of MOOCs and started changing.

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Gaggle Speaks

MARCH 25, 2015

Today, Gaggle provides our Safe Classroom Learning Management System and Safety Management products for Google Apps for Education or Office 365 to millions of students who are creating, collaborating and sharing in a safe environment. If you are under 25, you’ve probably never even heard of Blue Mountain. The list goes on and on.

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Gaggle Speaks

MARCH 25, 2015

Today, Gaggle provides our Safe Classroom Learning Management System and Safety Management products for Google Apps for Education or Office 365 to millions of students who are creating, collaborating and sharing in a safe environment. If you are under 25, you’ve probably never even heard of Blue Mountain. The list goes on and on.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Smith, Director of Programs Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for STEM - Revolutionary or Evolutionary? Sueann Galt, STEM Coordinator Does the use of ‘Learning Menus’ increase students’ intrinsic motivation?

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 26, 2015

MOOCs are great ideas, but assessment and feedback loops and certification are among the many issues holding them back. And anymore, they end being the punchline of edtech jokes, somehow. Comparing an unsupported MOOC from 2008 to an in-person college experience isn’t apples to apples.

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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

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

I first became involved in edtech as CEO of Xythos, a content repository system that was one of the first solutions that allowed universities and K-12 systems to have cloud based file sharing and storage. Xythos was used for collaboration and allowed students and faculty the ability to access files even before Dropbox and Google Drive.

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