Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2023

Being one of the first, and largest, online learning platforms in the world, Coursera has gained some insights from its 124 million-strong user base about what it really takes to help people succeed in its digital classes. She’s now completing an online MBA from Western Governors University (WGU). Demand is out there.

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EdTech4Beginners

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The appearance of massive open online courses (MOOCs) mean that it’s possible to study film-making online among other niche topics. Many schools are opting to have students on campus but also a wide array of international students who study online and attend virtual classrooms to interact with their peers.

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MindShift

APRIL 25, 2016

For all the promises of online courses disrupting education, completion rates are notoriously low. Some studies found that about five percent of those enrolled in massive open online courses (known as MOOCs) completed the course. Facilitators found that four-to-nine people is a good number for a group.

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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.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 11, 2017

51Talk (or “China Online Education Group”), China’s leading online education platform and the first from China listed on the NYSE (NYSE: COE), was invited to attend the summit alongside education industry leaders such as Pearson, Amazon, and YouTube. ” Angela Cerrato says to use the following tips: 1.

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Wired Campus

APRIL 30, 2015

The hype around the free online courses called MOOCs has drawn millions of students, who are all essentially part of a teaching experiment of unprecedented scale. A new report, released on Thursday, seeks to answer the question “Where is research on massive open online courses headed?

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2020

When the Sloan Foundation had the bright idea to stimulate digital education at the nation’s colleges and universities a quarter of a century ago, it christened online learning as “asynchronous learning networks,” an eccentric name for what is now known simply as online learning.

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Fractus Learning

AUGUST 15, 2016

This is your community as a whole (all 30 members in your PLC or all 3,000 participants in your MOOC). These are your smaller sub-groups in which your participants can come together to build those deeper relationships that will sustain them over time. At this level, you establish norms and values. The Neighborhood Level.

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Edsurge

MAY 29, 2018

I didn't have any connections who could tell me how to be a professor or what I needed to do to prepare. You worked in a traditional university and then moved to Ashford—what attracted you to online learning? Dr. Jongbok Byun How does online learning benefit students? Online learning can help this situation.

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Fractus Learning

MAY 19, 2016

It’s now 2016 and educators still have not discovered the power of infusing a balance of asynchronous and synchronous technologies, as well as engagement into their online classroom. Online learning does not need to be mechanical in nature. Engagement needs to take place in the online learning environment.

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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

APRIL 21, 2021

Udemy’s most popular courses focus on technical and business topics—like how to code in Python or how to use Google Analytics. For instance, you can sign up for short online courses on how to play the harmonica or declutter your home. For example, the site no longer allows courses on the topic of “how to pick up girls.”

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Edsurge

MAY 14, 2017

At the time, I’d been hearing about what Khan was doing and suddenly I realized there’s a fundamental divide between how we’ve traditionally taught medical school and how the next generation is wired to learn.” In a lot of classrooms, our modules are becoming required learning,” Sharma says. “As

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

As online course platforms proliferate, institutions of all shapes and sizes realize that they’ll need to translate content into digital forms. Designing online learning experiences is essential to training employees, mobilizing customers, serving students, building marketing channels, and sustaining business models.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2020

And then be super attentive to a [group of] decentralized deans, divisional leaders, chairs and individual faculty, and trusting them in the implementation. That Monday], which is the first day we went online, we had about 28,000 or 30,000 students during the day [in online classes].

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EdTechSandyK

APRIL 8, 2014

Notes from the Discussion We no longer have to go to school if we want to learn. edX - www.edex.org - MOOC site, courses are all free, people who teach the courses are from Harvard, MIT, Berkeley, University of Texas, etc. Coursera is another option for higher ed MOOCS. Are we showing kids how to do really good searching?

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2020

At the same time, we want learning to be very efficient. I should be able to learn what I need very quickly. The difficulty is we know how to make it very efficient, very effective. Most of our learning is from our parents, by observing. You don't go to school to learn how to tie a shoelace.

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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. Esme wants to transform the effectiveness of online learning, increasing both student engagement and the quality of course content.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Teachers have long known learning is a social process — when students create meaning together, often the results are much more effective. As more learning moves into digital spaces, this access gap has the potential to deepen the achievement and opportunity gaps, rather than close them.

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eSchool News

JULY 22, 2024

We can’t discuss online and hybrid learning without acknowledging the role the COVID-19 pandemic played in forcing districts to move fully online for virtual instruction, later paving the way for hybrid learning as classrooms slowly reopened for small groups of students. Then came the pandemic. “We

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Fractus Learning

JUNE 27, 2016

Allowing learners the freedom to express themselves in the online classroom. This is great for learners with dif­fer­ent learn­ing styles, it provides them with a venue where they feel more com­fort­able con­tribut­ing to group dis­cus­sions. Most online instructors want to avoid wrapping.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 20, 2014

My first question is how did you start? When did you first become involved with research into distance education and online learning? Terry: I think like any professional, distance educators need to know how to effectively use the tools of their trade. What are your views on MOOCs? Learning from cyberspace.

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ProfHacker

OCTOBER 25, 2016

I am working on a project (outside my institution, targeting adult learners), and was asked to provide tips for effective online learning. But you should also offer help when you can, and if able, ask for help in community spaces such as discussion forums or Facebook groups for the course. Setting up Workspace. Check in often.

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ProfHacker

OCTOBER 28, 2015

I’ve been working for some time on ideas of inclusion & ( in)equality in open education, and of the possibility of a postcolonial MOOC (with Shyam Sharma ), and gathering ideas from others on how to envision a more inclusive, diverse and equitable open online learning experience. Putting Ideas into Practice.

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ProfHacker

OCTOBER 20, 2015

I’ve been working for some time on ideas of inclusion & ( in)equality in open education, and of the possibility of a postcolonial MOOC (with Shyam Sharma ), and gathering ideas from others on how to envision a more inclusive, diverse and equitable open online learning experience. Putting Ideas into Practice.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Blended learning is a learning model that combines digital and face-to-face learning experiences. ” It is generally accepted that there are four models of blended learning: Rotation, Flex, A La Carte, and Enriched Virtual. The basic terms of informal learning (e.g. Mobile Learning. ” (22).

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 16, 2013

There are eight conference strands covering a wide variety of timely topics, such as MOOCs, e-books, maker spaces, mobile services, embedded librarians, green libraries, doctoral student research, library and information center "tours," and more! We have 146 accepted conference sessions and ten keynote addresses.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

events , the real party takes place in the volunteer moderator lounge, where a devoted, energetic, and highly beloved group of volunteer moderators keeps the conference running and humming. Smith, Director of Programs Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for STEM - Revolutionary or Evolutionary?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). With new Chinese investor/partners, it’s going to be interesting to watch how Edsurge’s storytelling changes. “ Can Online Learning Help Higher Ed Reverse Its Tuition Spiral? It’s like the MOOC crap all over again.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

But then their teacher, Will Colglazier, demonstrated how a couple more exploratory clicks—critically, beyond the site itself—revealed that the Employment Policies Institute is considered by the Center for Media and Democracy to be a front group created by lobbyists for the restaurant and hotel industries. “I

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 22, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update April 22nd The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn.and change. Carl Rogers The technologies of the Internet and the Web are reshaping where, when, and from whom we learn--and even how we think about learning. Learn how to leverage web 2.0

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

More on last week’s Purdue and Kaplan deal: “ Purdue ’s deal for Kaplan U trades a long-term business relationship for low up-front costs while raising worries – especially among faculty groups – about blurred lines between public and private higher ed,” Inside Higher Ed reports. Well, not quite.

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Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

Speaking of horrors: “ The One Group Not Freaking Out About Brexit: VCs.” Also speaking volumes, the publications that framed the educational fallout from last week’s referendum on EU membership in terms of how it might possibly hurt the business of British ed-tech. ” Try learning styles, maybe.

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Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Lots of MOOC PR appeared in the news this week. ” “What if MOOCs Revolutionize Education After All?” “Now that MOOCs are mainstream, where does online learning go next?” ” asks Edsurge.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

After all, Amazon knows how to run online marketplaces; Amazon knows how to sell texts. In 2013, an accreditor ordered Tiffin University to stop enrolling students in its Ivy Bridge College, an online program run by the venture-backed firm Altius Education. Altius Education. Uber for Education". “We

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Hack Education

MARCH 16, 2018

” Via Inside Higher Ed : “A bipartisan group of 30 attorneys general signed on to a letter Thursday opposing House legislation to reauthorize the Higher Education Act over a provision that would bar states from regulating student loan servicers.” ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”).

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

Via Buzzfeed : “How Betsy DeVos Could Break Up The Charter School Coalition.” ” Via Buzzfeed : “The Education Department Quietly Invited Anti-LGBT Groups To A Father’s Day Event.” ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Big HR news about Coursera in the HR section below.

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