Edsurge

MAY 30, 2019

He’s the guy who coined the term MOOC, short for Massive Open Online Course, which then was a reference to multiplayer video games. Sit in enough faculty meetings, meet with enough leadership, and it becomes clear that it’s all about money. But this tweet was a biting critique of where higher ed is heading.

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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).

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The ideas that came out of that meeting, and a similar one that took place two years ago, form the basis of a new Stanford-hosted website, “ Responsible Use of Student Data in Higher Education. ” McKay attended the summer meeting at the Asilomar Conference Grounds in California. The site launched Sept. For Stevens, his “aha!”

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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

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

One key idea is to give students certificates in various areas as they complete sets of courses, and then award a degree once enough certificates have been earned to meet requirements for a bachelor’s, an idea known as stackable credentials. There is nothing brand-new in the proposal.

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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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K12 Open Ed

JULY 20, 2015

As I got into working with MOOCs, again I sought to create environments that were peer- and self-driven. Recently, the idea of “headless” MOOCs has become popular. The basic idea is to run a massive open online course that has no “teacher” (or even facilitator) but is instead run by the community.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

So despite talk by corporate leaders about a “war for talent,” and complaints about a lack of skilled workers and the challenge of retaining top talent, employers are actually spending less, on average, on learning and development for their employees. My people already have degrees, they need something more specific,” says Bradley.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 31, 2016

Digital leadership focuses on transforming learning environments through online course offerings (synchronous and asynchronous), independent studies, and use of OpenCourseWare to provide students with continuous options to learn anytime, anywhere, and about anything.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2019

Chip Paucek, CEO and co-founder of 2U “When we think about the trajectory of a learner, from college to a masters program to a MOOC or to a bootcamp, there is a lot of opportunity for universities to play a role across that spectrum and reinvent themselves,” Paucek tells EdSurge in an interview. “If It’s like our anniversary,” says Sommer.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

And how can whatever this new nonprofit does make up for the abandoned role of running a major online-learning platform that was actively offering low-cost options for students around the world? The university also announced that the issue of the new nonprofit will be discussed at MIT’s September 22 faculty meeting.

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Educator Innovator

JUNE 14, 2013

After a Department of Education kick-off at the Reimagining Education Conference and initial practitioner learning opportunities by partners Scratch, the Afterschool Alliance, and Mozilla Webmakers, the Summer of Making and Connecting kicks into even higher gear with the launch of Maker Party 2013 and the Making Learning Connected mooc on June 15.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

We know from the rise in free massive open online courses, better known as MOOCs, that a scholar on a screen can and already has replaced the sage on the stage. And in an age in which medicines can be personalized to one’s genetic code, technology can help teachers meet the unique needs of every child.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2020

The executive education market was already facing heightened competition and digital disruption: these pressures will accelerate in the current environment, with even more interest among employers in shorter-form offerings and online delivery.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 5, 2021

.’ Students learning (independently) to play chess using the same chess program/software to learn, then playing one another randomly is a kind of asynchronous learning community. If the community is an online learning course, then students will begin to discuss course content.” ” Reflect.

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Edsurge

MARCH 24, 2017

Discovering MOOCs in 2012 lit a fire under me. But the article that resonated the most was Amy Ahearn’s: The Future of Online Learning Is Offline: What Strava Can Teach Digital Course Designers. Try building a MOOC to meet that challenge—I’d love to read about it! The interview, “ Why U.

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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. I may not be a master, but at least I have some concept of working HTML.”.

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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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Connecting 2 the World

JANUARY 20, 2014

There has been a lot of discussion lately about the possibility of all classes going online and MOOC''s (Massive online courses)replacing the traditional classroom. Add to this that many of the online faculty are adjunct and their is a second layer of challenges online learning adjunct faculty have.

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Edsurge

MAY 14, 2017

For independent learners, platforms like MEDSKL and MRU present free course opportunities similar to those of MOOCs, but with a few distinctions. MOOCs have a very specific window when the course is open, so you have a cohort who’s synched through it,” says Hardgrave, “but ours are on demand, so people can start and stop whenever they want.”

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Educator Innovator

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Our partner, The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation’s free online Learning Differences course aims to help teachers better understand and meet the needs of all learners. See what a Constance Seibert, a former participant-turned facilitator, has to say about what makes the course so valuable.

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Educator Innovator

JUNE 14, 2013

After a Department of Education kick-off at the Reimagining Education Conference and initial practitioner learning opportunities by partners Scratch, the Afterschool Alliance, and Mozilla Webmakers, the Summer of Making and Connecting kicks into even higher gear with the launch of Maker Party 2013 and the Making Learning Connected mooc on June 15.

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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. Click here to see all of them.) Org charts need to change.

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Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

How can colleges and universities share courses online? The answer has been “yes” for some years, and I’m not talking about MOOCs or University of Phoenix. All faculty felt more comfortable with online learning pedagogy. That is, can students at one institution take a class taught by faculty at another?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Turkle notes the problem of students who seek to replace meeting with professors in their offices with an email. Much of what passes for innovation in online education is an attempt to reproduce the classroom—and often not what works best in the classroom. That’s not a substitute—we agree.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2016

We called it EdSurge Independent: a Medium publication , a Facebook community and a cohort of students meeting weekly. It’s simple to talk in the abstract about badges and blockchains, software and scale, Moocs and their manifest destiny. We learned because we had a space that welcomed us to be curious together. Which Is To Say.

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Educator Innovator

MARCH 10, 2014

We are building on the online course we offered last year and plan to continue to tinker with the format and explore new tools for sharing ideas and supporting discussions. Online learning + Local meet-ups = We hope you will tinker with us.

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EdTechSandyK

MARCH 6, 2017

Kim, Researcch Scientist in the Learning Systems Lab, MIT What is your mission? Kim: Transform teaching & learning at MIT around the globe through the use of digital technology. MOOCs, technology infusion projects, online masters or pathways to credit, research. Meet people where they are, face-to-face.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 20, 2014

When did you first become involved with research into distance education and online learning? Being an Academic has allowed me to travel widely, to meet some very interesting people and to set my own research agenda. What are your views on MOOCs? My first question is how did you start?

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Bryan Alexander

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

It describes a meeting of MOOC evangelists, several university leaders, and the press at the Carnegie Corporation’s offices. [T]he If you sympathize with this Revolution, or with MOOCs, this is a moving affirmation. The MOOC movement (or moment) is one tool for accomplishing this. The epilogue is quite simple.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 30, 2011

Thanks for your attention, and see you online! EPCOP MOOC INTRO WEBINAR ( Australia Series ) Mon 1 Aug 09:00PM New York / Tue 2 Aug 01:00AM GMT / Tue 2 Aug 11:00AM Sydney Coach Carole. This is an online learning conference sponsored by the Region XI Education Service Center in Fort Worth, Texas.

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ProfHacker

MARCH 25, 2016

One of the unconference sessions we held was a meeting, with some virtual participants who could not make it onsite, to discuss possible future Digital Pedagogy collaborations amongst AMICAL members. Continuous Online Learning Opportunities. Maha Bali with participants in the Praxis track.

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Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Online learning, or the teaching formerly knows as “distance learning” Will this keep growing? Skepticism about the quality of online learning could migrate to the general population. And the MOOC numbers look like they’re rising. Educational technology trends.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Are academic credentials simply assumed to represent relevant learning, or do they actually document and verify competencies with evidence of learning? Are we meeting the needs of lifelong learners? First and Foremost, Focus on Learning.

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Wired Campus

AUGUST 6, 2015

George Siemens is a key innovator in higher education, having coined the term “MOOC” and worked to study the effectiveness of online learning. Though he isn’t able to divulge details of what transpired, he wrote about the meeting on his blog, in a post filled with strong feelings about some of what he heard there.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 24, 2016

A quick round of introductions revealed some interesting trends: a growing number of liberal arts institutions are launched or growing online learning programs; many sought to find the distinct ways liberal arts institutions, and campuses pursuing liberal education, can use technology. Online learning is on the rise.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 6, 2014

. - David Stern, Library Director Libraries: A Destination of Learning - Brigitta Goerres Executive Director of Curriculum 4:00pm Channeling Energies in Library Digital Storytelling - Rebecca Morris, Assistant Professor of Library and Information Studies DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER: Susan Hildreth on "Libraries as Community Learning Partners - STEM, Maker (..)

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