Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

A lot has changed since 2012 or, the year the New York Times dubbed the "Year of the MOOC." The premise back then was that classes would make high-quality online education accessible for all—and for free. Today, many MOOC providers now charge a fee. So the rate at which new users are coming into the MOOC space is decreasing.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2018

MOOCs have gone from a buzzword to a punchline, especially among professors who were skeptical of these “massive open online courses” in the first place. MOOCs started in around 2011 when a few Stanford professors put their courses online and made them available to anyone who wanted to take them. And that's what MOOCS have.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Such features are notable, says Sean Gallagher, founder and executive director of Northeastern University’s Center for the Future of Higher Education and Talent Strategy. That’s because it might make the idea of adopting MOOC content acceptable to professors “skeptical about the integrity of online education,” he adds.

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2019

But SEEK Group , an Australian operator of online educational and employment services, has doubled down on massive open online courses. Less than a week after its announced lead in Coursera’s $103 million Series E round , SEEK is at it again with £50 million (about $65 million) in London-based MOOC platform FutureLearn. audiences).

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Teacher Reboot Camp

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Throughout the past 8 years, I have designed several online courses and MOOCs. I noticed this activity has become super popular in many online course; therefore, for The Goal-Minded Teacher MOOC ( #EduGoalsMOOC ), I decided to try another activity in case I had participants who had taken my previous courses. Intro activity!

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

News that Arizona State University and edX have archived 10 of their 14 Global Freshman Academy courses raises questions about the viability and purpose of credit-eligible MOOCs. She suggests that first-year students may need more academic and social supports and wraparound services than a la carte MOOCs provide.

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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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Neo LMS

JUNE 16, 2020

Education technology tools and solutions are becoming commonplace and widespread. As a result, educators must stay on top of trends and pursue ongoing learning in technology. When it comes to professional development for educators, it’s vital to learn about the edtech options available. Take a degree course.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2019

But NYU isn’t the only school trying to offer free medical training. Coursera, a company that hosts massive online courses and degrees, is the latest entrant among a growing number of online education providers that are entering the medical space. The school began offering its continuing medical education courses on edX two years ago.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2018

The MOOC landscape has grown to include 9,400 courses, more than 500 MOOC-based credentials, and more than a dozen graduate degrees. The total number of MOOCs available to register for at any point of time is larger than ever, thanks to tweaks in the scheduling policy by MOOC providers. edX: 14 million users. XuetangX: 9.3

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Usman Khaliq was an engineering student in northeastern Pakistan when he took his first MOOC. He quickly began supplementing his education with online courses from Stanford and Carnegie Mellon. complete multiple MOOCs. complete multiple MOOCs. Between 2014 and 2016 Usman earned 21. Rethinking the 5% Completion Rate.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Educators have experienced life without the Internet and social media. Ask me about training your teachers, ShellyTerrell@gmail.com ! Join my free online course where we work on digital learning missions, The Goal-Minded Teacher MOOC ( #EduGoalsMOOC ). They grew up with the Internet, social media, and mobile devices.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 6, 2020

That means it won’t be long before even college-educated employees will need to upskill or retrain to remain employable. As educators, we are each tasked with teaching our students a specific body of knowledge. There are many resources available to students who wish to continue their education after high school.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Until lately, those online MIT courses have somewhat resembled so-called massive open online courses, or MOOCs, says Clara Piloto, director of global programs at MIT Professional Education. Now, as MOOCs have evolved to court professional audiences , so too have MIT’s efforts to harness companies and organizations.

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EdTech4Beginners

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

When people talk about the future of technology in education, they picture every student having access to a computer or a tablet; they see paperless rooms where technology trained teachers lead the class. The future of education is increased inter-connectivity. Open Ended Education. New Learning Platforms.

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Brilliant or Insane

MAY 16, 2015

Is online education the silver bullet that will kill major global education problems? Or is it a runaway train with gigantic issues of its own–issues far too imposing to be solved in the foreseeable future? The post Online Education: Silver Bullet or Runaway Train? Brilliant or Insane.

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Mark Smithers

MARCH 12, 2013

This morning Richard Grusin posted a series of twenty tweets presenting a highly critical and thought provoking view of MOOCs. MOOCs are the bastard children of 1980s cyber-utopianism and post-1945 economic neoliberalism. MOOCs are a 21st century manifestation of cyberspace’s revolutionary ideology of information freedom.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

14 Examples Of Innovation In Higher Education. I don’t follow higher education very closely, so this is all from 20 feet away. Six Common Examples Of Innovation In Higher Education. And just as universities haven’t been ‘job training facilities,’ more immediately, neither has K-12. by Terry Heick.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Online courses helped kick off a movement promising that your zipcode no longer had to determine the quality of education you received. Despite these promising developments, however, vast inequity still persists in the United States education system. People in rural Bhutan could take a computer science class from Harvard.

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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. Let’s face it, we do have competition in traditional higher education.

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EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 7, 2018

Using mobile for educational purposes is a slightly new concept. 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. MOOC also offers group collaboration and feedback through online evaluation.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 18, 2016

Initially, it was dedicated to the gaming industry, but now it has extended to other industries and we cannot ignore its uses in education. Virtual Reality in Education. Virtual Reality has taken by storm the education field, and why wouldn’t it? The benefits that Virtual Reality has in education are countless.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2016

As more adults than ever before enroll in postsecondary education programs and a variety of players—from bootcamps to online and mobile course providers—offer options tailored to match adults’ work and family circumstance, traditional colleges and universities have struggled to keep pace.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2022

Some edtech entrepreneurs are eager for Web3 to arrive and change education. Among them: Are crypto-entrepreneurs imagining better systems for education—or just systems that pay off better financially for themselves? Before forging our own ponderous chains, then, let’s explore what Web3 innovators might have in store for education.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has cast a cloud of uncertainty over higher education. I think most employee development and training, which was already largely online, [will remain being] done online. We’re now in a situation where work, life and education are starting to blur.

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Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

We’ll see big growth in higher education services from outside of the university sector, a continued gnashing of teeth from established providers. 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 focus is on tertiary education.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2020

With an uncertain fall and a deep economic downturn, many believe two-year colleges may be the best answer to meeting the higher education needs of both traditional and non-traditional students and workers looking to learn new skills. Department of Education data. Nearly 40 percent of all undergraduates in the U.S.

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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. His educational journey started in 1998 teaching little children to speak English.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Meanwhile, the education dialogue has shifted to a focus on employment-related themes such as competencies and skills. employers spent nearly $71 billion on training in 2016—a figure that was flat compared to 2015. Pluralsight—an online IT training provider—has scaled to become an edtech “unicorn,” with a valuation over $1 billion.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

FEBRUARY 17, 2018

Our esteemed panelists who are educators in the US, Greece, and Portugal, include Lisa Dabbs ( @TeachWithSoul ), Theodora Papapanagiotou, ( @DoraPap72 ), Nikki D Robertson ( @NikkiDRobertson ) Christina Chorianopoulou ( @Kryftina ) and Cristina Monteiro Silva ( @cristimsilva ). Ask me about training your teachers, ShellyTerrell@gmail.com !

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2019

Demographic shifts and rapid-fire technological change are upending traditional postsecondary education and workforce training. There are some 44 million working-age Americans without college degrees who are not earning a living wage, and they desperately need better access to education to advance financially.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The Online Learning Consortium (OLC), one of the 12 partner organizations of Every Learner Everywhere, was charged with identifying and understanding innovations in the digital education landscape. The first goal was to create an environmental scan of the digital learning environment in higher education with a focus on adaptive technology.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MARCH 3, 2018

Ask me about training your teachers, ShellyTerrell@gmail.com ! A short list of useful resources that relate to the use of technology in education. Advice On Using Education Technology [link]. Resources. Places To Find Research On Technology & Language Teaching/Learning.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Many professors worry when they hear the word “innovation,” or when they see college leaders looking to the business world to upgrade practices on campus, because they fear it will weaken the quality of education. After all, higher education is rarely praised for its ability to change. But I was being ironic. It's a discovery process.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MARCH 10, 2018

We invited two incredible leaders in education to be our guest experts for the chat, Dr. Lynell Powell ( @DrJoy77 ), assistant principal and host of the Dr. Joy Radio Show and Marisa Constantinides ( @Marisa_C ), Director of Studies of CELT Athens (where I received my CELTA) and author of TEFL Matters. Twitter Chat Archive.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 8, 2022

More than two dozen states now partner with Credential Engine, using the Credential Transparency Description Language it developed to assemble, sort through and better understand their education and workforce data. And some state governments are applying this system to help their residents directly. provide credentials: 59,692.

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Edsurge

MAY 23, 2022

The pandemic forced lasting changes on the American education system. The pandemic bump that many edtech firms experienced has faded, but private capital’s interest in edtech, and in shaping the education system, remains. And what changes do they want to foster in education? Second, social-emotional learning.

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