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

JANUARY 17, 2019

But NYU isn’t the only school trying to offer free medical training. 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). MOOCs, The New OPM?

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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 appearance of massive open online courses (MOOCs) mean that it’s possible to study film-making online among other niche topics.

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EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 7, 2018

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. MOOC also offers group collaboration and feedback through online evaluation. It is a powerful way to educate and train yourself or others.

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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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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

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Still, advocates leading different but related efforts to make higher education and workforce training programs better for participants and employers have different ideas about what transparency really looks like when it comes to credentials. New to the research this year is a count of how many groups in the U.S.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JANUARY 30, 2018

Ask me about training your teachers, ShellyTerrell@gmail.com ! We will share and meet regularly on our Facebook group, Twitter (#EduGoalsMOOC), and through weekly live events (expert panels on Google Hangouts). Get your copy of Hacking Digital Learning , The 30 Goals Challenge , or Learning to Go.

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The Shake Up Learning Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2022

SAT/ACT Study Groups. When it comes time to prepare for the SAT and ACT, often times students will form study groups across the area or region. And think about using it for your adult organizations as well like church groups, alumni associations, intramural teams, and philanthropic organizations. Google Educator Groups (GEGs).

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2018

At the time they were not alone in their efforts; Coursera, Udacity (both of which were also co-founded by Stanford professors) and edX had launched MOOC platforms a year earlier. NovoEd has tried to differentiate itself from the crowd by designing its platform to facilitate small-group interactions and project-based assignments.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Just as formal education systems made a dramatic shift to digital since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, on-the-job training is changing as well. The same forces that transformed classrooms have accelerated the adoption of more digital learning in workplace training—advancing a trend that was already underway.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2023

Today’s online courses are evolved cousins of the early MOOC, or massive open online course. Some are trying higher ed for the first time, while others tried college before but didn’t complete it, and still others have advanced degrees but want training in a specific skill or subject. The year of the MOOC may be long over.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2019

Andela, the New York-based company that trains programmers in developing countries, raised $100 million in a Series D round. Looking at the top 10 deals so far in 2019, companies focused on workforce training dominated investor interest. Revature, a technology skills-training company, sold to Investcorp for an undisclosed price.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

It’s worth reexamining how we’re recreating these educational walled gardens online—as we move from the heyday of MOOCs in 2012 to the gradual decline of open access courseware in 2017. These are the resources that are typically still free like MOOCs, Khan Academy videos, TED videos, and some adaptive learning platforms.

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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

JANUARY 24, 2022

It has also led to the rise of new groups, called DAOs, that are experimenting with less-hierarchical ways to conduct business. Some groups call themselves “learning DAOs,” organized to educate members of their communities. That would be the block chain. That includes higher education. And what are they learning about?

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2020

in February, rising across all groups of workers - with workers with l ower levels of educational attainment the most vulnerable to job loss. Likewise, employer spending on training—which often includes university-provided offerings— tends to decline in recessions. The national unemployment rate jumped to 4.4%, up from 3.5%

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2021

But leaders of a new platform called Unmudl say the time is right for community colleges to collaborate and make their workforce-training programs available more widely by marketing them through a shared website. All of the classes offer skills training explicitly linked to employment.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

Designing online learning experiences is essential to training employees, mobilizing customers, serving students, building marketing channels, and sustaining business models. And look at examples of tangible rather than screen-based technologies that have been produced by groups like Paulo Blikstein’s Transformative Learning Technologies Lab.

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Linways Technologies

APRIL 22, 2020

Some of them are developing their own courses to train workers in the skills the company needs. Data-Driven Results As an institution, the way you treat education and manage it is different from MOOCs or short-term online courses. Employers are also taking new approaches to acquiring the needed set of job skills.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

If your work life is 40 to 60 years, you will need upskilling and training, and that can be scattered in location and time.”. Microcredentials and badges have grown in popularity among both universities and other education providers, like Coursea, edX and other providers of MOOCs—and even coding bootcamps.

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

The trained programmer knew there had to be a more efficient way. Gradescope is hardly the first group to give automated grading a shot. Other efforts such as MOOC platform edX’s Enhanced AI Scoring Engine have similarly tried to use automation to reduce the time educators spend on grading.

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 2, 2017

SAT/ACT Study Groups. When it comes time to prepare for the SAT and ACT, often times students will form study groups across the area or region. And think about using it for your adult organizations as well like church groups, alumni associations, intramural teams, and philanthropic organizations. Google Educator Groups (GEGs).

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

To condense the program to just one calendar year, it skips Shakespeare or any traditional liberal-arts electives, with the idea that students can pick that up later (through MOOCs or continuing education) once they have a job. Instead, there will be large open spaces for laboratories, and areas designed for students to work in groups.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

The self-driving car program, launched last September, currently has 10,000 students enrolled (from 42,000 applicants), and the first cohort from this group is set to graduate on Oct. Founded in 2012, Udacity initially sought to work with universities as a provider of massive online open courses (MOOCs). Sorry, Peter.)

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TeacherCast

JUNE 20, 2015

He has lead technology groups and provided considerable training and support as they implemented a 1:1 environment. Kurt is also part of EdTech Sages , LLC, an educational technology training and consulting group. Mapping with google mooc https://mapping.withgoogle.com/. Show Information. Google My Maps [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

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. I think most employee development and training, which was already largely online, [will remain being] done online.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2019

Blair also helps place users into jobs and offers mentorship, resume help and interview training. Hatchways is on its second cohort of 20 students, having already graduated a group of 10. Everyone is trying to make education online, but we’ve seen the rise and fall of MOOCs,” says Payne, 32. They’ve got it all wrong.”

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The Principal of Change

APRIL 4, 2018

As preservice teachers, we are trained to think deeply about our emerging and improving practice, all with the expectation that the emphasis on that act will not only become habit, but also will serve as a continuous springboard for growth and change; the intention is not simply to think about it, but also to act on it.

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2017

They’re spending a tremendous amount of time and energy and money” on hiring and training as a result, he argues. These days students can always take Shakespeare or other courses later, once they’re settled in their careers, thanks to free MOOCs, he says. The bachelor’s degree as a one-size-fits all no longer works.” Too Job Focused?

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Edsurge

JULY 27, 2017

You end up with a tutor and a group of 12 [students]. That’s what the former MOOCs [such as Coursera and Udacity] have driven toward for a business model and they’re getting some revenue and scale out of it. That’s what the continuing education group at most schools do, for the most part. What does that mean?

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Hack Education

JULY 7, 2017

Via Politico : “The American Action Forum , a right-leaning public policy group, is recommending that DeVos consider gutting the federal student aid pilot programs created under the Higher Education Act. ” Some of these experimental sites included MOOCs and coding bootcamps. The Business of Job Training and Job Placement.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

This is not a shy group. Meanwhile, hiring managers were asking for actual skillsets so the kids could come in and hit the ground running, particularly as companies dropped a lot of their in-house training programs in those years right after the recession.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 10, 2012

To receive more information about volunteering, please join the volunteer group HERE. Special volunteer training is provided! They help to make sure that beginning presenters feel comfortable knowing someone is there in the virtual room to help, and they also provide encouragement to presenters and attendees.

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ViewSonic Education

DECEMBER 27, 2018

This is the twenty-first century – we don’t need training in being in the 21st century, we are nearly two decades into it already. Fortunately, there is a vast amount of content already available, such as YouTube videos, MOOCs, multiple choice questions and web-based resources. We are teaching digital citizens in 2018.

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GoConqr

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

This will require a shift in the way teachers are trained too. Teachers will assume the role of facilitators, which will require a change in how they are trained.” We will see more and more educational MOOC platforms to replace classroom training, as they afford users universal access to knowledge. Contributors.

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