Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2022

That puts Meta in a different space than companies that offer massive open online courses, or MOOCs—which tend to focus more on upskilling and that offer certificates intended for professional advancement, experts say. Meta’s offering appears to be more tied to live events, though.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

But hints of the future were present, even back then, since there was a way to earn college credit from the course I didn’t finish, supplemental education CD-ROMs were making their way into K12 schools, and Microsoft and Intel were offering certifications that could be earned entirely online. MOOCs topped the cycle in 2012.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

For many, what ISTE is doing with online courses may sound similar to MOOCs (massive open online courses), or other online certifications for educators offered by big companies such as Google, Apple and Microsoft.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Could the rise in MOOC-based and other certificates affect how traditional college degree paths are designed? Many #DLNchat-ters define them as MOOC providers including edX and Coursera and bootcamps such as General Assembly and Kenzie Academy. Mozilla, Microsoft, Adobe, Autodesk have all been active leaders.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Well-funded MOOC providers Coursera, Udacity and EdX have evolved their business models to focus squarely on corporate learning and serving professionals seeking credentials. New Options One major reason is the explosion of relatively high-quality, free or low-cost professional learning options in recent years. Similarly, LinkedIn’s $1.5

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techieMusings

MAY 19, 2016

They have won a variety of awards for their innovative practices, including being a Microsoft Associate Showcase School and last year received a D2L Asia Pacific Excellence Award along with Victoria University and Singapore Management University. Their MOOC worktime is an assigned period within their school day. Math Rotation Model.

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Edsurge

MAY 29, 2018

When I joined Ashford, the MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) had just started and it was quite an interesting movement. Later, I found a way and connections which guided me to my current profession. You worked in a traditional university and then moved to Ashford—what attracted you to online learning?

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ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 1, 2019

In order to reduce the amount of new content a teacher needs to make, YouTube videos, MOOC s, multiple choice questions and web-based resources can be combined. MOOC-style lessons, webinars and using open-access tools like Google’s G-Suite or Microsoft’s Learning Tools are all options.

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Graphite Blog

JULY 16, 2020

This project is sponsored by Microsoft and CUE (Computer-Using Educators), an ISTE affiliate in California. The Friday Institute (free, self-guided) Organized and administered by North Carolina State University's College of Education, the Friday Institute offers numerous choices for MOOC-Eds: Massive Open Online Courses for Educators.

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RafranzDavis.com

MAY 22, 2016

The first was visiting Microsoft’s “ Education Underground ” and getting a tour of their “Garage”, an extensive makerspace for Microsoft’s employees to tinker and build. Our goal is to reach 150 students, providing them all a raspberry pi and certain students a Microsoft Microbit.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2022

They include Walmart , Facebook, which changed its name to Meta, and Microsoft, which recently purchased game developer Activision Blizzard for nearly $70 billion, as part of a stated goal to stake a claim in the metaverse. That includes higher education.

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techieMusings

MAY 19, 2016

They have won a variety of awards for their innovative practices, including being a Microsoft Associate Showcase School and last year received a D2L Asia Pacific Excellence Award along with Victoria University and Singapore Management University. Their MOOC worktime is an assigned period within their school day. Math Rotation Model.

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Hack Education

JULY 7, 2017

” Some of these experimental sites included MOOCs and coding bootcamps. ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Class Central’s Dhawal Shah, writing in Edsurge : “ MOOCs Find Their Audience: Professional Learners and Universities.” State and Local) Education Politics.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Companies like Microsoft, Facebook and Google are all dipping their toes into virtual and augmented reality. Panelists include Darryl Adams (Founder and CEO of Adams Consulting And Edutainment Services), Nicole Neal (CEO and Founder of Noodle Markets) and Michele Molnar (Associate Editor of EdWeek Market Brief). 2:00 p.m.

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Bryan Alexander

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

MOOC , n. It seems to include little start-up companies like Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and others. To be enabled with campus wifi, but dreaded in actual use, especially in classrooms. 2) A technology widely used by blacks, latinos, and poor people. A high-profile and expensive way to put content on the World Wide Web.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

“ ICE officials have invited tech companies, including Microsoft , to develop algorithms that will track visa holders’ social media activity ,” ProPublica reports. ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” The University of Iceland has joined edX. Immigration and Education.

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Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2022

A year earlier, Stanford University computer scientist Sebastien Thrun, co-founder of commercial MOOC provider Udacity, outdid Christiansen, predicting an even bleaker future for face-to-face classes, claiming that in 50 years streaming lectures will so subvert conventional higher ed that only 10 U.S. colleges will remain standing.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Microsoft bought three companies in 2018. ” (Its MOOC competitor edX also announced this year that many of its courses would no longer be free.) Vive la MOOC révolution. Neither Pearson nor Blackboard, companies that were quite active in gobbling up startups a year or so ago, bought a single company this year.

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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.”) ” 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.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Although no doubt, Microsoft, now the owner of Minecraft, would like us all to repeat that particular storyline.) That this is how a venture capitalist would characterize the future of education is, nonetheless, quite notable.

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

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.”

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Hack Education

APRIL 3, 2017

It ignores what happens in Seattle: the home of Amazon, Microsoft, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. This is part of the push for MOOCs, we must be honest.). Technology companies, on the other hand, seem well poised to do so – not just Microsoft, but Google and Apple, of course. ” Despite raising some $87.5

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Hack Education

AUGUST 19, 2016

One of the big stories this week: the US Department of Education ’s announcement about which “non-traditional providers” ( MOOCs , coding bootcamps ) will be eligible for financial aid as part of its EQUIP experiment. ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Education Politics.

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Hack Education

APRIL 13, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). “ Apple and Microsoft Now Offer $100 Styluses. ” Via Edsurge : “Transcription and Accessibility – New Partnerships from Microsoft and Amazon.” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. ” asks Edsurge. ” asks Edsurge.

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Hack Education

JUNE 17, 2016

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Microsoft announced it would make its largest acquisition ever, buying LinkedIn for $26.2 Hot takes on the acquisition (and what it means for the future of education and/or work): “ Why LinkedIn Will Make You Hate Microsoft Word.”

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Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Here’s The Chronicle headline from then : “Professor Leaves a MOOC in Mid-Course in Dispute Over Teaching.”) Good thing I never did anything in those MOOCs, otherwise I'd be losing my work. Remember Richard McKenzie? ” asks Education Dive.

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Hack Education

MARCH 17, 2017

.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “A Corporate Learning Revolution” – a Coursera webinar. Are MOOCs webinars? Are webinars now MOOCs?). ” Also via Class Central : “ MéxicoX : Meet the MOOC Platform Funded by the Mexican Government.” million total.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via the Iowa City Press-Citizen : “ Iowa families foregoing classroom for virtual school.” Acumen “senior innovation associate” writes about +Acumen in Edsurge : “The Flip Side of Abysmal MOOC Completion Rates ? ” Wheee.

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Hack Education

JULY 22, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Not directly education-related, but I’ll include it here nonetheless: “US cannot force Microsoft to hand over emails stored abroad, court rules,” The Guardian reports. Listen Current was founded by former public radio journalist Monica Brady-Myerov.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

” Microsoft acquired Minecraft in 2015 – which probably speaks volumes right there about its progressive potential – and in January of this year, Microsoft bought TeacherGaming, the maker of a Minecraft version aimed at classroom usage. Only “1.86 unique users have enrolled 4.1 Google’s Alphabet Inc.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Via Edsurge : “5 Ways MOOC -Based Degrees Are Different From Other Online Degrees.” ” Not listed: other online degrees simply aren’t hyped the way MOOCs are. Via Techcrunch : “ Upskill launches support for Microsoft HoloLens.”

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Just a few weeks after Daphne Koller ’s announcement she was leaving the MOOC startup she co-founded, Coursera unveiled “ Coursera for Business ” this week, marking its pivot from “democratizing higher ed” to “ training corporate employees.”

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). MOOC hype deja vu.). You can get a Microsoft certification! .” More via Education Week , Edsurge , and Inside Higher Ed , which noted that “In Transitional Year, SAT Scores Drop on Old Test.” The University of Newcastle has joined edX.

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Hack Education

APRIL 20, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Wired : “The Young and the Reckless – A gang of teen hackers snatched the keys to Microsoft ’s videogame empire. ” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. There’s coding bootcamp news in the venture capital section below.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 13, 2016

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? This is still the most popular certification listed on Microsoft’s professional network, LinkedIn.)

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Hack Education

JULY 6, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Speaking of terrible ideas taken up by terrible people and terrible companies, Andrew Ng – yes, of MOOC fame – says that we should be less concerned with making self-driving cars safe and more committed to training bystanders (pedestrians? other drivers?

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