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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.
He’s won a national teacher-of-the-year award and his viral videos about education earned him praise from Wired magazine. It’s a new kind of MOOC, and it’s a new kind of philosophy,” he says. All the social-media activity around the free content is essentially the marketing plan.
In fact, for years he edited one of the most popular humor magazines on the Internet, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency — a more literary version of the The Onion. And he thinks that the writing students do for their Instagram accounts and socialmedia is actually great. But Warner is not anti-tech. Could you talk about that?
Just look at her profile: She is a teacher trainer, author, and international speaker, is the host of American TESOL’s Free Friday Webinars and the SocialMedia Community Manager for The Consultants-E. What does socialmedia mean to you? It is basically a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course).
” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) ” MOOCs looked – for a short while, at least – like they were going to pivot to become LMSes. Instead, they’ve re-branded as job training sites.
Claims on SocialMedia : Students consider the sources of a tweet and the information contained in it in order to describe what makes it both a useful and not useful source of information. SocialMedia Video : Students watch an online video and identify its strengths and weaknesses.
Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Inside Higher Ed : “Analysis of Georgia Tech ’s MOOC-inspired online master’s in computer science suggests that institutions can successfully deliver high-quality, low-cost degrees to students at scale.” “Many are never the same.”
Ted Dintersmith : There was a massive gush of enthusiasm for MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses), with some conviction it would revolutionize higher education. Many colleges rushed to put in place their MOOC offerings, hoping to provide meaningful free or low-cost education to a “massive” number of students.
” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Anil Dash and Gina Trapani announced they’re closing down their socialmedia analytics product ThinkUp. That is, major socialmedia platforms like Facebook and Twitter increasingly made it difficult for ThinkUp to work with their APIs.
” President Obama talked to Wired magazine about artificial intelligence, Mars, self-driving cars, Star Trek and more. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Microsoft -Branded MOOCs for K–12 Leaders.” Department of Education announced Wednesday.”
Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via The New York Magazine : “The Class of 1946–2018 Twenty-seven school-shooting survivors bear their scars, and bear witness.” “Life Is Complicated: Distance Learning Helps,” says The New York Times. president to retire in wake of football death.”
Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Something something Brexit something something MOOCs will save British higher ed. tl;dr: emailing them, holding webinars, using socialmedia. Education Department Awards 41 States and the District of Columbia $28.4 Heckuva job. ” Clowns.
Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Politico : Western Governors University , “the nation’s leading provider of competency-based educatio n – which the Education Department’s independent watchdog last month said violated federal student aid rules – is expanding into North Carolina.”
Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Brown University joins edX. “ Y Combinator MOOC for Tech Startups Attracts Thousands of Views,” says Campus Technology. Not sure why this is called a MOOC. Via Diggit Magazine : “The end of Academia.edu : how business takes over, again.”
Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Gotta keep hyping that MOOC thing. Via Edsurge : “ MOOCs Are No Longer Massive. ” Via Class Central : “Class Central’s Top 50 MOOCs of All Time (2018 edition).” And They Serve Different Audiences Than First Imagined.”
Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Speaking of Michigan State and Nassar, via The State News : “Original MSU alumni magazine leaked.” ” ClassDojo is now a full socialmedia platform for schools - this letter & video just emailed to parents. SDG Academy has joined edX.
Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news from Edsurge in the “job training” section below. There’s more MOOC news from Edsurge in the “job training” section below. Will Merge Government Data, SocialMedia Posts.”
I’ve never seen an education story receive quite as much attention from non-educators on socialmedia. The New York Times Magazine interviews the new Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden. Via the IEEE Spectrum : “How the Pioneers of the MOOC Got It Wrong.” It was a disaster. From the HR Department.
Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” MOOCs are dead , according to Udacity ’s VP. ” Never one to let a good MOOC story pass them by, Edsurge repeats the story. “MOOCs Are ”Dead.“ million in crowdfunding for its MOOC platform. “ What’s Next?
The New York Times Magazine has a long and thoughtful piece by Sara Mosle on school reforms in the Atlanta Public Schools. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Class Central : “ Monetizing A MOOC Platform.” ” ECOT is the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow, an online charter school.
Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” An op-ed in Forbes by University Ventures’ Ryan Craig : “Make Online Education Great (For The First Time).” “When SocialMedia Assignments Increase Risks for Vulnerable Students” by Monica Bulger and Jade E. ” asks Graham Attwell.
Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” edX is offering an online master’s degree with Georgia Tech : an OMS (online master’s in science) in Analytics. The Economist on “ The Return of the MOOC.” The socialmedia platform had raised $2.5 ” Price tag for the report: $3599.
“The Education of Betsy DeVos ” – a profile of the Secretary of Education in Politico Magazine. ” “How SocialMedia Can Help Teach Good Writing,” according to Edsurge. (National) Education Politics. ” An op-ed in The New York Times by Gail Collins : “No Profit in Betsy DeVos.”
Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Vive la MOOC révolution. ” “Orphan MOOCs and the Digital Dark Ages” by Jeffrey Pomerantz in Hybrid Pedagogy. Via The New York Times Magazine : “What Teenagers Are Learning From Online Porn.” Via Edsurge : “?In
” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Philadelphia Magazine : “This Quaker Sex Ed Teacher Says Your Kids Need to Be Porn-Literate.” More on the latest Pew study on teens and socialmedia – I noted it in last week’s round-up – in Education Week and by Bryan Alexander.
” Via New York Magazine : “Trump University Told Recruiters to Target Single Parents With Hungry Kids.” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). “The Future of MOOCs Might Not Be Free ,” suggests Education Week’s Market Brief with an observation that many of us made back in 2012.
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. “What does a high school diploma prove?” Go, School Sports Team!
was named in an investigation by The Associated Press last year for sharing racially charged content on socialmedia.” Via The Guardian : “ Trump bans agencies from ‘providing updates on socialmedia or to reporters’ ” This ban has been targeted at scientists at the EPA and USDA in particular.
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