Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2016

In particular, continuing education programs are less regulated, more responsive to industry and consumer needs, have less restrictive budget policies and procurement systems, operate under lower political pressure, and are often infused with the “startup mentality” that is critical for responding to and pioneering disruptive innovations.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2022

“Now is the time,” said a recent promotional email from Udemy, a library of online courses. The buzz from employers, meanwhile, is that many industries are changing so fast that workers will need to “upskill” more often —making the economics of asking users to take more courses more viable.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2018

In the future,” he wrote, “I envision three tiers of education that look a lot like the music industry of today. Customers can now pay a monthly fee to get access to a library of content. This compensation structure may seem common (or to some even fair) in other industries such as entertainment.

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Online Learning MOOC lynda.com Industry 83

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The shift to remote work in the pandemic also fueled the purchase of low-cost subscriptions to online training libraries. The boom in short-form digital learning in the workplace doesn’t mean that classroom-based corporate training or more structured on-the-job learning is going away.

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Learning Training Digital Badges Coursera 183

Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 2, 2019

But how do they compete with resources like MOOCs and OERs that have made high quality course content from respected university professors available for free? When students started migrating towards used textbooks, rentals, MOOCs and OER due to the high prices of printed textbooks, it affected the revenues of traditional book publishers.

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OER Education MOOC Adaptive Learning 16

Perry Hewitt

APRIL 15, 2018

Organizations as diverse as Fidelity Investments and the New York Public Library are also adopting this tactic. The media covers innovation in selective ways: the latest dating app is going to get a lot more airtime than a transformative technology in the construction industry. Enable and reward cross-disciplinary learning.

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Industry MOOC Software STEM 60

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 11, 2014

The Learning Revolution Project highlights virtual and physical events that we hold and from our over 200 partners, and provides valuable links to learning conversations taking place in the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. Nominate your favorite keynote speakers for Library 2.014.

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Conference Digital Citizenship Maker Movement Common Core 65

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2015

This is a LIVE show presented in news show format featuring a Wrap up of “This Month in School Libraries” and deeper discussion of topical school library issues with special guest experts. The Call for Proposals will open May 1st , immediately following the Library 2.015 Spring Summit. Did we mention it was LIVE?

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Libraries Game-Based Learning lynda.com Trends 28

TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 8, 2015

But as successive refinements improve them to the point that they start to steal customers, they may end up reshaping entire industries: classified ads (Craigslist), long distance calls (Skype), record stores (iTunes), research libraries (Google), local stores (eBay), taxis (Uber) and newspapers (Twitter).”

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Examples Classroom Maker Movement Social Media 40

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 They got duped.”.

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Social Media Learning Facebook Analysis 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 9, 2015

NMC Summer Conference presenters are thought leaders within the education industry at colleges and universities, schools, museums, libraries, organizations, and companies. The Call for Proposals will open May 1st , immediately following the Library 2.015 Spring Summit. More information here. Did we mention it was LIVE?

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Conference Libraries Facebook Twitter 28

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Marshall Exploring Gender Neutral/Inclusive Bathrooms in Libraries: A Global Perspective - Raymond Pun, Kenya Flash Flipped Learning in L2: How to Encourage Cross-Cultural Critical Thinking to Teach Global Problem-Solving Skills - Birgit A. Eunmi Song University-Industry Collaboration in Vietnam: When the boss says Jump, you say Why? -

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Conference Education Case Study Mobility 4

Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Udacity helped popularize the idea of offering college-level courses online to anyone for free, a format known as MOOCs (for Massive Open Online Courses). But this week a Udacity official called MOOCs “dead,” leading to questions about what that means for one of the company’s offerings (which still include free MOOCs).

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MOOC Company E-rate Course 143

Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2018

A few weeks after EdSurge probed the company about the silence, Amazon opened up the resource library to the public. More Colleges Are Offering Microcredentials—And Developing Them The Way Businesses Make New Products A few years ago elite universities were frantically jumping into MOOCs. Well, at least partially open.

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Coursera MOOC Company Course 126

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) Computing platforms have different abstraction levels, including a computer architecture, an OS, or runtime libraries. A computing platform is the stage on which computer programs can run.

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 63

Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

For example, this story from the School Library Journal : “ Charter Schools , Segregation , and School Library Access.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “ No, YouTube is not a library – and why it matters” by Sarah T. “Many are never the same.”

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Education Robotics OER MOOC 47

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

I’ve called this “the Top Ed-Tech Trends,” but this has never been an SEO-optimized list of products that the ed-tech industry wants schools or parents or companies to buy (or that it claims schools and parents and companies are buying). Beyond the MOOC. MOOCs and Anti-MOOCs. The Digital Library.

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Technology MOOC Trends Khan Academy 60

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

This year feels different too than the previous years in which I’ve written these reviews because education technology – as an industry – sort of floundered in 2016, as I think my series will show. Beyond the MOOC. School and “Skills” MOOCS, Outsourcing, and Online Education. MOOCs and Anti-MOOCs.

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Trends MOOC Khan Academy Maker Movement 40

The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2025

After all, technology has lowered prices in almost every industry. By the 2010s, MIT and others had developed something called the MOOC. MOOCs were a way to teach thousands of students at a time, and they were supposed to revolutionize and democratize higher education. That’s what happened with the early MOOCs.

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MOOC Course Report Outcomes 77

Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

OpenSecrets.org on how the student loan industry and higher ed institutions spend their lobbying dollars : “The politics behind your college and how you pay for it.” Jen Howard on “What Happened to Google’s Effort to Scan Millions of University Library Books ?” ” The Business of Student Loans.

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Education Coursera Khan Academy MOOC 46

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

” “Make MOOCs great again.” Here’s a list of election outcomes pertaining to library-related measures , thanks to EveryLibrary.org. Trump’s education platform promises to “make post-secondary options more affordable and accessible through technology enriched delivery models.” Is that possible?

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Education Common Core Company Facebook 56

Hack Education

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “A judge will allow Ohio ’s education department to review attendance records that could force Ohio’s largest online charter to return millions of its funding,” says the AP. . “ UT Austin and SMOCs : What do we know about whether they work?”

Education 40

Education Elsevier Report Company 40

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). MOOC hype deja vu.). Via Buzzfeed : “The Industry That Was Crushed By The Obama Administration.” ” Via InfoDocket : “New Reports: Trends on Use of Public Libraries , Reading Habits , and Bookstores in U.S.” It lives.).

Education 40

Education E-rate MOOC Report 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 13, 2016

If you want a job as a software developer in the technology industry, you’ll need a college degree. Because despite their marketing copy, it remains important to ask: how do employers, in and out of Silicon Valley, respond to these alt-credentials – to MOOC certificates and nanodegrees and microcredentials and badges?

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Technology Education Secondary Pearson 40

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

” Via The Atlantic : “The Libraries Bringing Small-Town News Back to Life.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). It’s baaaaack: “Return of the MOOC ,” The City Journal tells us. There’s some (sorta) MOOC-related news in the venture funding section below.

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Education MOOC Company Pearson 45

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?” And more on MOOCs in the credentialing section below as well.

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Education MOOC Company Report 43

Hack Education

JUNE 29, 2018

” Wired on the project : “‘ ICE Is Everywhere’: Using Library Science to Map the Separation Crisis.” ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via The New York Times : “The Snake Oil of the Second-Act Industry.” More details in Edsurge.

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Education Facebook Khan Academy MOOC 51

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “Should Online Courses Go Through ‘Beta Testing’?” NPR on MOOC Micromasters. Bridget Foster has been named the head of the SIIA’s ed-tech association, the Education Technology Industry Network. ” asks Edsurge.

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Education Company MOOC Khan Academy 46

Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “ Coursera ’s New Strategy Takes Inspiration From Netflix – and LinkedIn.” ” There’s more MOOC-related research in the research section below. The American Library Association announced its youth media awards.

Education 40

Education Coursera Robotics E-rate 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 6, 2016

The Rebranding of MOOCs. Remember 2012 , “ The Year of the MOOC? Remember in 2012 when the media wrote about MOOCs with such frenzy, parroting all these marketing claims and more and predicting that MOOCs were poised to “ end the era of expensive higher education ”? MOOCs are not particularly "open."

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MOOC Technology OER Coursera 40

Hack Education

AUGUST 5, 2016

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Remember when Twitter announced that it was donating its archive to the Library of Congress ? MOOCs, CAI, and now this. “Thanks largely to the rise in virtual schools, the sector is a Top 5 industry for freelance work.” ” JFC.

Education 40

Education Pearson Report Policies 40

Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

Edsurge’s Jeff Young and Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill both asked industry analyst Trace Urdan for his take. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Online education pioneer Tony Bates asks “ What is online learning ?” The NMC Horizon Report 2017 – the Library Edition.

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Education E-rate Company Kaplan 47

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. 3D printing, The Economist pronounced in 2012 , was poised to bring about the third industrial revolution. (I

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2018

There’s more for-profit higher ed news – and how the Trump Administration has deep, deep ties to this industry – in the for-profit higher ed section below. ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). .” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ Trump to Nominate U. ” JFC.

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Education Pearson Company Blackboard 43

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

’” Via Education Week : “ FCC Seeks Comment on Access to WiFi for Schools and Libraries.” ” The New York Times looks at “A Legal Industry Built on Private School Sex Abuse.” ” Via The Telegraph : “ Saudi Arabia accidentally prints textbook showing Yoda sitting next to the king.”

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Education Company Data Report 48

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

” There’s more on Department of Education efforts to help the for-profit higher ed industry in the for-profit higher ed section below. “Free College” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Bard College opens its second ‘microcollege’ in Brooklyn Public Library. State and Local) Education Politics. .”

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Education Robotics Company OER 49

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Chalkbeat investigates the Indiana Virtual School : “As students signed up, online school hired barely any teachers – but founder’s company charged it millions.” The Digital Public Library of America has a new head : John S. For-Profit Colleges.”

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Education Facebook Company Robotics 49