Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 28, 2020

” – Ovid Escape technology, people, and worries Recharge with books- Book chats/studies, audio books, author virtual events, #BookCampPD, @HackMyLearning, @EduMatchBooks, @BurgessDave, @Foundations_inc Podcasts- Dschool.stanford.edu/resources/the-inspiration-walk Edupodcastnetwork.com Twitter.com/search? Tips and Resources.

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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 increased availability of cheap and fast technology goes hand in hand with this. The Future Is Social.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Technology is a huge part of our students’ lives. This is why teachers need to challenge students to find the strength to act nobly and use technology to make a positive impact on the world. See a few participant missions below for a range of subjects and age groups and discover more in our Pinterest board.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2017

Since the New York Times named 2012 the year of massive open online courses (MOOCs), millions have flocked to platforms offering them such as edX and Coursera. The six-week long MOOC will touch on topics including open educational resources (OER), open pedagogy and practice, open knowledge and open research. Ekowo: Why this MOOC?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2020

That’s because it might make the idea of adopting MOOC content acceptable to professors “skeptical about the integrity of online education,” he adds. That free version of the service it calls Online Campus ended in June, but the group says colleges are also licensing its course materials to help shift to online learning. “We

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Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2020

The nonprofit MOOC platform edX, originally started by MIT and Harvard University at a time when pundits predicted large-scale online courses could replace college for some people, is trying yet another new approach, launching the first of what it calls a “MicroBachelors” program.

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Mobile Musings

MARCH 18, 2013

ISTE’s Learning and Leading with Technology (L&L) just published an article I wrote about MOOCs. In particular, there are two new MOOCs that are particularly well suited to K-12 professional learning. This course covers a wide array of topics in educational technology and media. (cross-posted from K12 Open Ed ).

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2019

That scenario is one reason that a group of nine universities, led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, today announced a collaboration to build a system that would let institutions issue digital diplomas and credentials in a way that can be verified without needing to check with a human registrar. “You

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Last year, MOOC providers announced about 30 new online degrees. This wave of activity and spending by MOOC providers and universities gave me a feeling of deja vu: it reminded me of the 2012 MOOC hype. That is why I called the rise of online degrees the second wave of MOOC-hype and 2018, the year of MOOC-based degrees.

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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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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The unique and pressing needs of the ongoing global pandemic accelerated the adoption of education technology and innovations that could support urgent and evolving needs and provide on-demand and flexible learning. Since then, micro-credential interest, earning, and pathways have only increased.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 28, 2020

Escape technology, people, and worries. Virtual group fun! Twitter Chats, webinars, MOOCs, online courses, online conferences, virtual events, livestreams, Edcamps, Facebook groups, #Hashtags. Facebook groups, pages and live events. Facebook.com/groups/search/groups_home/?q=education. Tips and Resources.

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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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Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2023

That’s the privileged question that officials at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University have been mulling over for the last two years, and this month they announced some answers. The founding came at the height of public excitement around free online courses known as MOOCs, which stands for Massive Open Online Courses.

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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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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2018

Unfortunately, most massive open online course (MOOC) platforms still feel like drafty lecture halls instead of intimate seminar rooms. This means giving people small chambers of engagement where they can interact with a smaller, more manageable and yet still diverse groups. These design choices have noticeable implications.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The current remote learning situation means I am not only supporting academic and social-emotional learning but on top of that, I am scaffolding student’s use of technology. Online environments can be set up to support assistive technologies such as closed captions on videos and text to speech.

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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

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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Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2020

A national working group that I was recently a part of—led by non-profit Opportunity America—recently produced a report that aptly characterized the community college as “ the indispensable institution.” As a group, we called for a reimagining of community college, including moving toward more alignment with industry and more digital options.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2019

Instead, MOOC providers see an opportunity in helping medical professionals keep their knowledge and skills up to date after they graduate, a field also known as continuing medical education (CME). The draw to host these courses on MOOC platforms, Butler says, is the chance to reach a wider audience. MOOCs, The New OPM?

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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

MARCH 5, 2018

When free online courses known as MOOCs began to take off in 2012 , their pitch to investors often included jargon around “disrupting” the way education is accessed and consumed. And today, one of the largest MOOC providers, Coursera, announced it’s going one step further in that direction, with its first fully online bachelor’s degree. “We

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2017

As Alexandra Pickett worked to bring new technology and teaching styles to New York State University, she faced an unexpected challenge. The student responses contrasted significantly with professors, who reported having positive experiences with the MOOCs and saw many benefits to implementing such technologies.

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2018

We are moving direct instruction to the individual space and doing active learning to the group space, and that active learning is more difficult.” 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.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2018

While not quite the “Year of the MOOC,” 2018 saw a resurgence in interest around the ways these massive open online courses are delivering free (and more often these days, not free) online education around the world, and how these providers are increasingly turning to traditional institutions of learning. Without a University Involved.).

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2021

The demand for innovative digital learning technology has never been higher. 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 is its first education technology investment. And investment continues to flow into the edtech space.

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EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 7, 2018

The new E-learning technologies keep on evolving, and a lot of companies are investing in it to yield efficient employees. 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.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

And it was just a few years after the launch of the first MOOCs, putting the online higher ed market newly in the spotlight as it continued its steady growth. And major companies and industry groups are increasingly getting into the credentialing game, exemplified by firms such as IBM and Google.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 25, 2013

OER ranges from highly structured college courses (MOOCs) to less structured curricula from colleges and other institutes of learning (OpenCourseWare a/k/a OCW), to free online textbooks, and everything in between. Standards, and New Jersey World Class Standards in Technology.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Some in this elite group of colleges—specifically Princeton and Yale—offer no online degree at all. And in the past ten years these colleges have been active in offering so-called MOOCs, or massive open online courses, which are free or low-cost courses, usually for no official credit. What, I wondered, accounts for the reticence?

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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

DECEMBER 26, 2017

In 2017, reality took a massive swipe at the wobbly optimism of technology progressives. Echoing wider soul searching over technology’s polarizing role in politics and society, the education technology scene has been doing its own reckoning. Equitable: An analysis by John Hansen and Justin Reich of U.S.

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2022

A “Facebook Classes Instructor” group shows roughly 3,100 people signed up to trial the program. If you’re interested in learning to code: I’m creating a Facebook group where I and others are going to teach free classes - enough to get you to the point you could start charging a bit, so you can get paid to learn the rest.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Some technologies enable social interaction while others purposefully remove it. And in an online course, technology must play a role in fostering student-to-student, student-to-instructor and student-to-content interactions during break out groups, interactive polls or back channels. Walk In Students’ Shoes.

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The Principal of Change

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Join the Facebook group. This is not limited to the groups that we are using above, so if you are interested in making your own spaces, please feel free to do so. September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon! IMMOOC September 13, 2016 It is your thinking that creates solutions, not any technology.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

We could participate in a number of free Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs), including over a dozen on Chinese History from Harvard University. Even more exciting than what is available for us to peruse and consume, however, would be the technologies that allow us to interact, create, make, and do things together.

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