Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 28, 2020

Escape technology, people, and worries. Recharge with books- Book chats/studies, audio books, author virtual events, #BookCampPD, @HackMyLearning, @EduMatchBooks, @BurgessDave, @Foundations_inc. Twitter Chats, webinars, MOOCs, online courses, online conferences, virtual events, livestreams, Edcamps, Facebook groups, #Hashtags.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Meanwhile, Coursera is opening up its technology platform to any college to use for free to deliver course materials on their own campuses. Colleges have tried to offer courses built around MOOC materials before—and it hasn’t always gone well. It’s important to build that story to try to go public. They need to show a story of growth.”

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2018

Has the MOOC revolution come and gone? Or will the principles of the MOOC movement continue to influence higher ed? On Tuesday, April 10 the #DLNchat community got together to discuss and debate: How Have MOOCs Impacted Approaches to Student Learning? How many MOOCs have you signed up for and how many have you taken?”

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2018

You could call extension schools the original MOOCs. Well, unless you count the students in MOOCs, those free online courses, which are offered through a different division of the university. Yet during that same period, another part of the university, HarvardX, has been running MOOCs, massive open online courses.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2018

A majority of online students visit campus to access services and support, or to attend events and in-person courses, in a true blending of online and in-person. Additionally, in another example of blending of online and in-person education, Coursera has begun a pilot offering its online MOOC courses to students at its campus partners.

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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. Combine synchronous and asynchronous learning.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 11, 2017

As one of the few online Chinese education companies invited to participate in the event, 51Talk demonstrated its role as an industry leader, and how online education in China is making an important impact on the global stage. The company focuses on visual recognition technology, and aims to apply it to advances in education.

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2022

Facebook Classes for Events ‘Classes’ is new event type which can be selected when creating a new online event on Facebook. The service is an extension of the company’s paid live events feature. For now, Meta isn’t taking a cut of live events. Meta’s offering appears to be more tied to live events, though.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JANUARY 30, 2018

We will share and meet regularly on our Facebook group, Twitter (#EduGoalsMOOC), and through weekly live events (expert panels on Google Hangouts). Learn from experts around the world through our live events. Learn how to integrate technology effectively through hands-on collaborative tasks and materials development.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

And because it’s a pandemic, the event was online and the bell was virtual (perhaps fitting for an online-learning company). Growth Is on the Agenda The company started nine years ago amid a hype around free MOOCs , or massive open online courses, some of which drew hundreds of thousands of students each.

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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. Log in at [link].

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past. We could participate in a number of free Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs), including over a dozen on Chinese History from Harvard University. Let’s take maps, for example.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

With the two last directors of the federal Office of Education Technology, Richard Culatta and Joseph South, at the helms of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), it is no surprise that the organization is seeking to expand and rebrand.

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2019

The question is a philosophical one, as some people argue that a theory called Baumol’s cost disease, which states that some labor-intensive sectors do not reduce labor costs even when new technology comes in, explains why the cost of college keeps going up faster than other areas of the economy.

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Edsurge

APRIL 6, 2017

Education technology is riddled with temptations and false promises. But if you ask Mark Brown, a professor and director of the National Institute for Digital Learning at Dublin City University in Ireland, problems such as falling for hype around new technology is an absolute moral dilemma. I have been guilty of taming the technology.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2018

At the event, which was held at the Computer Science History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. For example, Udacity previously partnered with San Jose State University to offer MOOCs for credits , and the company offers an online Master’s degree in computer science with Georgia Tech. Udacity focuses on industry,” Thrun said.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2020

Even before this crisis, concerns were rising about a potential loss of jobs and the rising demand for digital skills due to technologies such as automation and AI. In the last few months the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world and triggered an economic plunge in the U.S. that is now officially a recession.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

More than $1 billion in headline-grabbing transactions are likely to be announced at the event. Five years ago I wrote a piece for EdSurge entitled “ Why I’m Optimistic About The Next Wave of Education Technology,” and at the time I wanted to counteract the feelings many were expressing that the edtech bubble was about to burst.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

Blockchain, the technology that underpins cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, is now a buzzword in nearly every industry ranging from financing to healthcare. Krishnan added that another area of interest in blockchain and credentials is that the technology offers a platform of immutability. What’s the hype?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Charles Severance was one of the first professors at the University of Michigan to give the massive open online courses (MOOC) platform Coursera a try. His first class was on internet history, technology and security. It’s a feeling he had even before the MOOC, and even before he was at the University of Michigan.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2018

Agarwal said at the event that edX and its partner universities have together developed 45 MicroMasters degrees, low-cost online programs that cover about 25 to 50 percent of the material from a typical Master’s program. It’s not going to happen by itself, we’re going to make it happen.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

Our focus for the upcoming week is integrating technology effectively. Join us for the next #EduGoalsMOOC ‘s Twitter chat where we will discuss Effective Technology Integration with guest experts Steve Wheeler ( @SteveWheeler ) and Larry Ferlazzo ( @LarryFerlazzo ). You can still join the free course.

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2018

Earlier in the talk, she admitted to feeling “more at home at events like this—with entrepreneurs, creative thinkers, and doers—than in the stuffier, acronym-laced halls of Washington, D.C.” In an unusual move, DeVos spent the bulk of the session serving as moderator, asking questions and seeking policy advice from three panelists.

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techieMusings

MAY 19, 2016

Their school is committed to organization-wide change to effectively infuse technology into the curriculum and they are truly forward-thinking in their approach; the school has already implemented many innovative teaching practices and spaces. Their MOOC worktime is an assigned period within their school day. Math Rotation Model.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 8, 2012

The Blackboard Collaborate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. Media X is Stanford''s catalyst for industry and academic research partnerships on the impact of information and technology on society.' Log in at [link].

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Edsurge

MAY 17, 2017

Now that we’ve assembled international crowds of motivated, smart people online in MOOCs, it’s time to think about harnessing their collective intelligence to tackle these urgent cross-boundary issues. We invite up to 1,000 students who have previously completed two or more of our free MOOCs to apply to participate in these challenges.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Tracy Mitrano , an attorney who used to be the director information technology policy at Cornell University , holds an opinion on the issue that’s common among academics. Clarke and three of his classmates organized an event that took place last week to draw attention to their concerns and why they support net neutrality.

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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.

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MIND Research Institute

MAY 17, 2017

Thanks to technology, we can take learning online and collaborate with educators around the country and the world. Plus, we can do many of these events or tasks in our pajamas, or even by the pool! Visualization for Mathematics, Science and Technology Education. Missouri University of Science and Technology. Self-paced.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The higher-order thinking that researchers predict will survive impending technological advancement is precisely the one in teachers’ toolkits. The event brought more than a hundred people to Seattle, Wash., No one is certain what the future holds, but we know we shouldn’t prepare all students to work on assembly lines and in mines.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 11, 2014

The technologies of the Internet and the Web are reshaping where, when, and from whom we learn--and even how we think about learning. CoSN is designed for education leaders to better understand their changing roles in creating the new face of learning, and it''s a great event with terrific history and high-powered speakers.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 6, 2014

There has been a real excitement for this years event, and our conference network reached over 20,000 registered members this past week! Thank you in advance for your support--you help keep these types of events free! Forward this post if you can. Sample tweets and a blog post are also at the bottom of this email, below the schedule.

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Edsurge

MARCH 24, 2017

First the numbers: In the past year, we have published more than 300 articles about the shifting trends in higher ed, education technology and digital learning. Discovering MOOCs in 2012 lit a fire under me. Ray Batra: EdSurge promotes how technology can support teaching and learning, but it doesn’t do so uncritically.

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The Shake Up Learning Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2022

We have face-to-face events, meet-ups, and even offer some learning opportunities via Google Hangouts. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). MOOC’s are usually free online courses offered by universities with no limit on enrollment. You should be! I am co-leader of the GEG for North Texas (GEG-NORTX).

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 3, 2013

This is the fourth blog post in my series on the future of learning and technology. Firstly, he argues, teachers tend to use new technology in much the same way they used old technology, and that as a result very little has changed in terms of pedagogy. Is technology the only catalyst for change, or should we look elsewhere?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

The technologies of the Internet and the Web are reshaping where, when, and from whom we learn. The Learning Revolution Project highlights virtual and physical events from Web 2.0 These events bring together educators, learners, leaders, and others to rethink and reinvent education. Labs and its partners.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Dr. Ralph Tyler The Learning Revolution Project holds online and physical learning events, and highlights professional development opportunities from a network of 200 partners in the learning professions. The great majority of these events are free to attend. It is a human service and it must be thought of as a mission. -

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