Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 28, 2020

Games, Karaoke, Dancing, Exercise, Celebrations, Watch Parties. Twitter Chats, webinars, MOOCs, online courses, online conferences, virtual events, livestreams, Edcamps, Facebook groups, #Hashtags. Online courses and MOOCs. #PasstheSketchnote- Bit.ly/passthesketchnote-info. passthesketchnote-info. Virtual group fun!

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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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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2020

In my 2014 book “ MOOCS Essentials ,” I reflected on each aspect of the residential learning process and how developers of massive open online courses were trying to replicate those experiences virtually, or come up with ways to keep students engaged without direct teacher-student interaction.

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EdTech4Beginners

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

They’ve aided the beginnings of ‘flipped’ classrooms – where students view video lectures or read background material at home and spend their class time being guided through exercises, projects, or discussions on the material. In the future, we can expect more of a shift towards this model, as a growing number of U.S.

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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

MAY 24, 2018

The MOOC is an extension of the on-campus course—it was really just making our on-campus experience public and open for anyone to follow,” says Barba. These days the professor considers herself an advocate of “the non-video school of MOOCs.”

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2021

While at edX Porter created the Open edX project, which has served more than 55 million learners taking massive open online courses, or MOOCs. COVID-19 has led to a resurgence in MOOC enrollment and, with continued pressure on the labor market, upskilling and reskilling are important considerations across different employment sectors.

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Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2017

The fitness coach can’t exercise for you. A fitness coach is a fitness coach because he or she likes to exercise, and that’s why they’re all buff, right? These MOOCs are free. Well people say, “But the MOOCs aren’t very successful, most people drop out.” And who does best at MOOCs? You have to do the work.

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eSpark

APRIL 7, 2022

MOOC refers to a massive online open course, a type of distance learning. MOOCs are generally prevalent in higher education, but are starting to be used at the high school level as well. This means that students watch video lectures at home with education technology and work on exercises or projects during class time.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

What may sound like a meditative exercise in patience does have a practical purpose. -based nonprofit has found 738,428 unique credentials in the U.S., according to a new report published Wednesday. Almost half are offered by non-academic organizations.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2017

EdSurge talked with Rick Levin, CEO of Coursera (and former president of one of those big-name universities, Yale) about how the mega-courses known as MOOCs have changed in the five years since the start of their hype-filled debut. It has been five year since Coursera launched its first MOOCs. How’s that going?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

This fall, students taking introductory statistics courses at six colleges will pilot using a tool to complete lab exercises in teams, working in sync with partners who are miles away. MOOCs get social. In summer 2016 Rosé and her team used Bazaar to run a team-based project for a MOOC offered by the Smithsonian Institution.

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Edsurge

MAY 14, 2017

For independent learners, platforms like MEDSKL and MRU present free course opportunities similar to those of MOOCs, but with a few distinctions. MRU’s other users include individuals who aren’t attached to a college but are curious about applied economics.

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eSpark

APRIL 7, 2022

MOOC refers to a massive online open course, a type of distance learning. MOOCs are generally prevalent in higher education, but are starting to be used at the high school level as well. This means that students watch video lectures at home with education technology and work on exercises or projects during class time.

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Bryan Alexander

MAY 27, 2016

Curt began by describing the use of MOOCs for faculty and staff development, with examples such as a University of London effort. In fact, open MOOCs can work for any population, esp. I asked how open learning works for non-professionals, citing research showing many MOOC users are already professionals and/or academics.

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ProfHacker

AUGUST 18, 2015

A number of ProfHacker posts have looked at aspects of this: Doug Ward has talked about the perils of online teaching , Michelle Moravec shared lessons from a MOOC , and Jason shared his summer of teaching online. Adopt strategies from MOOCs and other large-scale courses.

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The Principal of Change

JUNE 5, 2018

The chance to play, exercise, meditate, or a myriad of different options for mental and physical health is not only good for teachers, but it helps them see the difference it can make (again) for students. April 18, 2018 Wonder, Explore, Lead September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon!

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Wired Campus

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

When students enroll in MOOCs, they almost always watch a series of video lectures. The study, “Learning Is Not a Spectator Sport: Doing Is Better than Watching for Learning From a MOOC,” looked at a group of Georgia students in a course called “ Introduction to Psychology as a Science.”

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

MOOC uses new AP Physics curriculum, could aid both students and teachers. “The effective application of technology has enormous significance for the future of higher education, and it is important for Rice to push the boundaries of what is possible with a MOOC,” Levander said. “This isn’t a typical MOOC.

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MindShift

DECEMBER 14, 2015

In our own time, advocates of online learning promise to level the educational playing fields with massive open online courses, MOOCs. The most compelling evidence for the democratizing power of MOOCs comes from a new generation of Horatio Alger stories, where the video lecture replaces the bootblack’s cloth.

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Learning with 'e's

DECEMBER 8, 2015

New trends have emerged including blended learning , personalised learning environments ( PLEs ) Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), mobile learning and the flipped classroom. What are the challenges of these new learning environments?

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Bold claims have been made in the past decade about personalized learning, automated assessments and massive open online courses (MOOCs). He jokingly sums up the learning outcomes of MOOCs with a simplified observation he calls Reich’s Law: .

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Linways Technologies

JANUARY 6, 2023

The lack of this connection makes the whole exercise ineffective. Internship experiences, adding MOOCs, and Co-Curricular experiences are some other methods to assess students. In the absence of a clear mapping between program outcomes and assessment tools, student achievement of program outcomes is inaccurate and unreliable.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Karen Cameron shares this 8 step exercise to teach students (and teachers) how to actively listen to their peers. shares the guidelines, rules, and reflective activities associated with this exercise. Following recent conversations about the assessment capacity of MOOCs, this is a great topic! Her post, Do You Hear Me Now?

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The goal: to create a complete educational approach–with video lectures, online exercises, badges to reward student progress, an analytics dashboard for teachers to track that progress and more–that can be integrated into existing classrooms or serve as a stand-alone virtual school for anyone wanting to learn something new.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The exercise was part of “Civic Online Reasoning,” a series of news-literacy lessons being developed by Stanford researchers and piloted by teachers at a few dozen schools. In January, they plan to launch a massive online open course (aka a MOOC) called Making Sense of the News: News Literacy Lessons for Digital Citizens.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Finally, another science teacher will briefly share exercises in engineering design. Project-based learning in social studies (using Ebay to teach economics) and science (collaborative efforts with the local police and fire departments to teach physical science concepts) will be highlighted. Details to join the webinar at [link].

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Learning with 'e's

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Universities are replete with lecture capture tools, interactive media, web based content and personal response technologies; students arrive equipped with social media and mobile devices; technology supported distance education has been long established; universities are experimenting with flipped classrooms, gaming and MOOCs.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JULY 28, 2017

I actually did this for one of my Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). The “ Drawing Exercise ” activity is from Green River Community College. Read a step by step approach from an instructor with lots of examples here. Find several syllabus infographics for various subjects here. Gamify your syllabus!

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Edsurge

APRIL 6, 2017

As an example, Brown pointed to his own university, which last week ran a 24-hour live brainstorming exercise that invited anyone to share their ideas about what the college should be working on. “We An example he points to is the way his university approaches MOOCs.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

In the late 1960s, Nobel Prize-winning economist Herbert Simon posed the following thought exercise: Imagine you are an alien from Mars visiting a college on Earth, and you spend a day observing how professors teach their students. This story was published in partnership with The Moonshot Catalog.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

This troubling tendency to double down on one’s own preconceptions reflects the millions in other people’s money spent by [Edison Schools founder Chris] Whittle to design the “optimal” K–12 school model—which magically produced exactly the model that Whittle thought made the most sense before the expensive masturbatory exercise started.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Some proposed solutions would use so-called massive open online courses, or MOOCs, which have low success rates; only between 2 and 10 percent of students who begin a MOOC complete it, research has found. A Harvard study , however, showed that people who enroll in MOOCs intending to earn degrees finish at a higher rate, of 22 percent.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 17, 2016

This took 20 slides , touching on two-tier pedagogy, the rise of adjunctification, student poverty, etc: To drive the point home I offered a very slight, very basic futures exercise. Face-to-face instruction was the privilege of the 1%, while the middle class made do with distance learning, and everyone else had versions of MOOCs.

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Hack Education

MARCH 17, 2017

” “ NoRedInk Adds New Exercises to Prepare Students for ACT, SAT,” says Edsurge. ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “A Corporate Learning Revolution” – a Coursera webinar. Are MOOCs webinars? Are webinars now MOOCs?). Disclosure alert.).

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

” “Make MOOCs great again.” The Jefferson Education Accelerator has invested $2 million in Formative , “a tool that lets teachers create, distribute and give feedback on assignments and exercises,” according to Edsurge. ” Trump has threatened to close the Department of Education. Is that possible?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Whether it’s selling schools or MOOCs or access to the Internet itself , technology companies and education companies are, as Edsurge put it, “ Building Effective Edtech Business Models to Reach the Global Poor.” ” The material involved MOOCs that it had produced with edX as well as videos posted to iTunes and YouTube.

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