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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EdTechSandyK

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Notes from MOOCs for Professional Development Presentation at TCEA 2015 Dr. Kay Abernathy, Lamar University [link] Lamar University sponsored the MOOC on Social Media Communication Tools for Educators which Dr. Abernathy facilitated. You can build up to five MOOCs for free on this platform. link] What is a MOOC?

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The Principal of Change

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Join the Facebook group. September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon! Get your blog ready to go! (I I suggest either edublogs.org or wordpress.com ). Share that you are joining to the #IMMOOC hashtag on Twitter and share this link for others to sign up. Join #IMMOOC! indicates required. Email Address *. First Name.

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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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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2018

In past MOOCs, authors engaged in Twitter chats, had guest speakers via YouTube, prompted educators to share their reflections through blogs and Facebook groups and challenged participants to create a weekly visual of their learning. More PD is becoming available to educators as makerspaces grow in popularity.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2017

The venture-backed startup based in Mountain View (near all those online giants like Google and Facebook) has partnered with more than 150 colleges and universities around the world (including the old and famous ones like Princeton and Yale). It has been five year since Coursera launched its first MOOCs. How’s that going?

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The Principal of Change

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Thank you for signing up for “The Innovator’s Mindset” MOOC, happening over a six week period. The goal of the MOOC and the book is to not only give practical advice, but to also inspire and develop leadership. We invite you to share your learning in a variety of ways: Innovator’s Mindset MOOC Facebook Group.

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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. I enjoy using Facebook because it allows me to easily connect with other educators from my school and community. I also think that by connecting with my peers through Facebook , we have developed more personal connections as well.

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EdTechnocation.com

APRIL 18, 2014

Unit 5 of the Coaching Digital Learning MOOC-Ed focused on Digital Citizenship. Facebook might have some creepers and inappropriate pictures, block it. Websites like Youtube, and Social Networks like Facebook and Twitter can be used for learning, if used and taught appropriately. Coach Digital Learning mooc MOOC-Ed'

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Edsurge

MAY 4, 2022

The academy is intended to build on Coursera’s business offerings by adding entry-level certificates from Meta—the company formerly known as Facebook—and IBM, as well as altering the user experience for its certificates to better show how they lead to jobs. Entry-level industry certificates are receiving a lot of attention these days.

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Perry Hewitt

JULY 3, 2015

Notable findings include that a clear majority of 58% seniors now use the internet — while the overall percentage is lower, it’s rising quickly (see also: Facebook). The first few years of widespread access to MOOCs have created a data trove for researchers.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Could the rise in MOOC-based and other certificates affect how traditional college degree paths are designed? Many #DLNchat-ters define them as MOOC providers including edX and Coursera and bootcamps such as General Assembly and Kenzie Academy. But first, who are these nontraditional providers?

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Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2017

We’ve now been able to put this lie to bed that people can actually shop on Facebook and listen to your lecture and take good notes all simultaneously. These MOOCs are free. Well people say, “But the MOOCs aren’t very successful, most people drop out.” And who does best at MOOCs? First, people don’t multi-task.

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Bryan Alexander

MAY 18, 2022

Here are the suggestions which rolled in via Twitter , LinkedIn, Facebook, email, etc. Udemy – the MOOC provider may let users create classes there. My instinct is to whip up a WordPress instance and go from there, but the client doesn’t necessarily have experience with that platform. It claims to be fully GUI in interface.

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The Thinking Stick

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

How to handle a situation in which a parents sends you a DM on Facebook about their child (yes they can…yes it happens). Are they studying new and emerging learning theories like Connectivism that was written and has been around since 2005 and is the foundation to what MOOC s are based on.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 20, 2013

You could see where we might place formal learning using a VLE, or where students might meet to chat using Facebook, for example. With the increasing popularity of such movements as the Flipped Classroom , and Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs), other more radical formal learning space configurations are taking place.

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 19, 2016

Educational technology : I noted stories about MOOCs growing, social media, 3d printing stretching across the curriculum, brainstorming about VR and automation. Patrice (Cornell University) raised two topics: data analytics for learning, and MOOCs based on sustainability activism. Participants spoke to early childhood computing.

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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? We do that by partnering with industry.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 5, 2021

facebook groups or something similar) ‘need’ functional technology (e.g., Teachers watching a video or webinar (not live) ‘need’ the content to be within their ZPD (e.g., Members of a social forum or learning community online (e.g., through a live twitter chat or video conferencing).

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Learning with 'e's

MAY 7, 2013

My own father, now 84 years old, started a Facebook account so he could keep in touch with distant relatives in such places as New Zealand and Australia. Many of us regularly communicate with multiple Twitter and Facebook friends and acquaintances instantaneously even though they may be in another country. The stories go on and on.

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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). INTEF offers some of the materials in Spanish and attracts a global audience of teachers more so than most professional development. We encourage you to partner up and create materials together.

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ProfHacker

JANUARY 19, 2016

Usually, in contexts I use, this could either mean “feedback” or “facebook” and isn’t always clear. Jargon: Someone uses the term MOOC. Most people I communicate with on Twitter are fully aware of what a MOOC is. Poor soul gets 10 different replies because everyone else knows what a MOOC is and is trying to be helpful.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2020

A lot of people have recognized by now the idea that MOOCs—you just put it online, people will come, they will learn—didn't quite work out for various reasons. If you think of Facebook … I work with Facebook one-on-one, Facebook is in front of me and on the screen, I'm working on it. I don't think we're there yet.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2019

Once upon a time, she notes, “MOOCs were supposed to displace higher education. Now many MOOCs are embedded within these institutions. A “Facebook for education” is just no longer in vogue as it was five years ago. Bootcamps were supposed to do the same; now many are becoming a part of higher education.”

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

Even more embarrassingly, I was a co-founder of a company in 1998 called Mascot Network that raised $22 million to build online Facebook-style portals for colleges , which was seven years too early. MOOCs topped the cycle in 2012. As a result, I am very conscious (perhaps too much so) of market timing. OPMs topped the cycle in 2015.

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The Principal of Change

APRIL 25, 2017

February 28, 2017 The Fear of Sharing #IMMOOC January 10, 2017 Smart Yet Relatable February 12, 2017 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting February 27, 2017 #IMMOOC September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon! IMMOOC November 27, 2016 “Telling will never be as effective as experiencing.”

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Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2018

Plus, it sounded a lot like a MOOC (short for “massive open online courses”)—free courses designed for thousands of students that were all the rage a few years ago, but which today are seen as having fallen far short of the hype. It’s a new kind of MOOC, and it’s a new kind of philosophy,” he says.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2018

In fact, aside from the predictable few flickers of Facebook and Twitter, it seemed most of the students were actually working on something productive. Now, every student’s face was blankly fixated on the all-too-familiar glow of their computer screens. But the technology itself was not my concern.

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ProfHacker

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Instead, we are looking at the following (not mutually-exclusive) categories: Social networks – as in tools like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and God knows what else lies in the future. We also do not want to ignore the early history of networked learning from the early days of eLearning, pre-social media and MOOCs.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2022

They include Walmart , Facebook, which changed its name to Meta, and Microsoft, which recently purchased game developer Activision Blizzard for nearly $70 billion, as part of a stated goal to stake a claim in the metaverse. That includes higher education.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Let’s Chat.Bots in Higher Education : What if all of your college questions could be answered by sending a text or Facebook message? Companies like Microsoft, Facebook and Google are all dipping their toes into virtual and augmented reality. Higher Ed 12:30 p.m. Will VR Really Impact Student Outcomes? 2:00 p.m.

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The Principal of Change

DECEMBER 7, 2016

When I recently saw this video being shared on Facebook, I had to share it myself. August 14, 2015 Closing Our Eyes in the Pursuit of Innovation June 2, 2016 Embracing Meaningful Change at All Levels September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon! I have seen him in concert, and he is an amazing entertainer.

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2022

The tech giant Meta, widely known under its previous name Facebook, seems to be eyeing a way to allow users to offer video classes. Since at least last year, Meta has experimented with Facebook Classes, a program designed to make online instruction through its platform smoother. For now, Meta isn’t taking a cut of live events.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

I was inspired, I think, to select that topic because talk of “platforms” was incredibly popular in Silicon Valley – it had been for a while – as companies strove to become “the next Facebook.” ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. Think Facebook.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

Check out our growing list of MOOCs and Courses on the EdSurge Index. As for your social profiles such as Facebook and Instagram, previous wisdom used to to be to hide any trace that a hiring manager could find. Post articles and media on Facebook, Twitter, etc that is useful and interesting to your followers.

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Wired Campus

APRIL 23, 2015

He examined the online behavior of 657 students who participated in a nine-week MOOC on statistics offered by Stanford University. The commitment tool allowed students to set a daily limit on the amount of time they wanted to spend on distracting destinations, like Facebook, BuzzFeed, or shopping websites. MOOCs Online Courses'

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Hack Education

APRIL 20, 2018

Remember, if you will, the insistence from the University of Virginia Board of Visitors that school was missing the “coming MOOC tsunami” based on columns they’d read in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. ” I heard three different people repeat that old Arthur C.

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