Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Back then, the target market was people who couldn’t get to a traditional campus, and places like Stanford had little interest in teaching their own students via the online format. But the pandemic has forced those selective colleges to embrace online learning like never before, and now all types of colleges are teaching online.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 20, 2021

Once technology became part of our daily routine and online learning solutions (MOOC providers, learning apps, learning management systems , etc.) On the other hand, Harvard was the one that created one of the first MOOC programs to allow anyone in the world to have a Harvard experience.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2018

Yet most of our energy has been focused on designing physical learning spaces, even as more teaching and learning shifts online. Unfortunately, most massive open online course (MOOC) platforms still feel like drafty lecture halls instead of intimate seminar rooms. These design choices have noticeable implications.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

A lot has changed since 2012 or, the year the New York Times dubbed the "Year of the MOOC." The premise back then was that classes would make high-quality online education accessible for all—and for free. Today, many MOOC providers now charge a fee. So the rate at which new users are coming into the MOOC space is decreasing.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 14, 2016

MOOCs: high aspirations and higher disappointments. The above idea is a noble one and massive open online courses, better known as MOOCs , are thought to be the solution to worldwide access to higher education. The online connectivity may not be a really important problem, but MOOCs faced a wall of other, more important issues.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 28, 2020

Discover more ways to design engaging distance learning experiences by taking my new accredited graduate course , Online Learning: Best Practices to Leverage the Power of Distance Learning. quarantinegamessorted Tinyurl.com/quarantinegamez Connect with educators online! Tips and Resources. “Take rest; a ?eld

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2019

Less than a week after its announced lead in Coursera’s $103 million Series E round , SEEK is at it again with £50 million (about $65 million) in London-based MOOC platform FutureLearn. This funding is “vindication for Open University betting on a MOOC platform, for investing in a non-U.S. audiences).

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 11, 2017

The latest piece of news on MOOCs — massive online open courses — suggests that they may not yet be the great democratizer of education that they were envisioned to be. 12, shows that, generally, MOOCs have not reached such a demographically broad audience. ’15, and MIT research scientist Justin Reich , Ed.D.’12,

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Usman Khaliq was an engineering student in northeastern Pakistan when he took his first MOOC. He quickly began supplementing his education with online courses from Stanford and Carnegie Mellon. complete multiple MOOCs. complete multiple MOOCs. Accordingly, this online course is a service employers are willing to pay for.

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Neo LMS

MAY 21, 2020

Embraced by some, considered by others only a back-up solution during these exceptional times brought by the global pandemic — that forced many universities across the globe to carry on their activities remotely — online learning has, in fact, its pedagogical consistency and social relevance.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Large-scale online courses called MOOCs can get millions of registered users over time. But one online learning pioneer, Stephen Downes, says that these free resources are not living up to their full potential to help students and professors. Downes has a special relationship to MOOCs.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2017

In 2013, MIT began offering online programs for working professionals to meet learners across the globe. 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. says Piloto.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 27, 2022

Online learning bloomed, students helped each other, the community contributed with knowledge, moral and financial support, and social interaction was kept alive. When schools closed, education had to go on. The pandemic triggered some beneficial changes for education, which will surely last beyond this period.

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The Thinking Stick

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Seeing that I’m fully invested in online professional development for educators through both COETAIL and Eduro Learning , I’m always on the look out for research on how to make online learning better. What is it that sets good online learning apart from the OK online learning systems?

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Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2023

What would you do if you had $800 million to build a new nonprofit to support innovation in online learning? The $800 million underpinning the effort derived from a controversial decision by the two universities in 2021 to sell their edX online learning platform to 2U.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2020

For me, it was pretty easy to imagine how I’d supplement the online pre-recorded lectures from my MOOC with discussions with Wesleyan students on the Zoom platform. Professors all over the country have been sharing tips on making their online educational environments as interactive and potent as possible.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 28, 2020

Discover more ways to design engaging distance learning experiences by taking my new accredited graduate course , Online Learning: Best Practices to Leverage the Power of Distance Learning. Connect with educators online! Online courses and MOOCs. Tips and Resources. “Take rest; a ?eld

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Following Monterrey’s success, other Mexican higher ed institutions have launched new online programs mirroring Monterey Tech’s model. In Latin America, only about 15 percent of higher ed institutions offer hybrid options, and only about 20 percent deliver fully online courses. In the U.S.,

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Boston-based private equity firm Devonshire Investors has acquired NovoEd , a San Francisco-based provider of an online learning platform. NovoEd traces its roots to Stanford University, where engineering professor Amin Saberi and Farnaz Ronaghi, then a PhD student, launched their first online course in 2012.

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EdTechSandyK

JULY 27, 2014

Image Source Used Under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND License Week 4 of the Foundations of Virtual Instruction MOOC I started on June 30th is wrapping up today. By this time next week, I will hopefully have successfully completed my first MOOC. I was especially interested/distressed to find out that even in MOOCs, people try to cheat !

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2020

Many K-12 schools this week have cancelled in-person classes and announced a shift to online teaching. But at least one online-learning expert thinks that's a bad decision, especially for vulnerable students. A growing body of evidence suggests that online learning works least well for our most vulnerable learners.

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2019

MOOCs, shorthand for massive open online courses, have been widely critiqued for their miniscule completion rates. Industry reports and instructional designers alike typically report that only between 5 to 15 percent of students who start free open online courses end up earning a certificate. Use the power of peer pressure.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

Coursera’s founders and CEO rang the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange today, as the online-learning company became a rare edtech enterprise to go public. And because it’s a pandemic, the event was online and the bell was virtual (perhaps fitting for an online-learning company).

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 9, 2013

After seemingly stalling for a short time, MOOCs ( Massive Open Online Courses ) seem to be graining ground again. First there were the cMOOCs, free and open online courses that focused more on learning than they did on accreditation. Learning was fun and informal, and learning was often self or peer assessed.

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2020

One source for insights on how to proceed is the cross-pollination that takes place when educators working in separate spheres learn from one another. The success of Khan Academy videos (almost all of which are under 10 minutes) served as a template for creating cutting-edge online-learning experiences, including massive open online courses.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2019

DeVaney wouldn’t reveal much about the innovation team’s particular plans, other than to say that the university intends to offer three new online and hybrid degree programs in the fall and to launch multiple degrees per year over the next five years.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2021

It was 2012, and online learning was suddenly booming. Courses at Stanford and at MIT were opened for free online to the masses, and the masses signed up—with some courses attracting more than 160,000 each. Dhawal Shaw, founder of MOOC-discovery platform Class Central. Downsides of Openness?

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EdTech4Beginners

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Traditional grading methods often involve manual review and assessment of individual assignments, which can be labor-intensive and time-consuming, particularly in large classes or online learning environments.

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EdTech4Beginners

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The appearance of massive open online courses (MOOCs) mean that it’s possible to study film-making online among other niche topics. Many schools are opting to have students on campus but also a wide array of international students who study online and attend virtual classrooms to interact with their peers.

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EdTechSandyK

JULY 3, 2014

Image Used With Permission Under a Creative Commons License Late last week I was innocently checking my Twitter feed, and I saw an announcement for a MOOC called Foundations of Virtual Instruction. The course is aimed at learning about K-12 online instruction, which I''m interested in knowing more about. before paying any money.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2020

A Need for More Strategic Online-Learning Capacity Following the sudden move to online and remote learning across all of American higher education last spring, many community colleges will be operating online this fall. One example is Calbright , the new online community college in California.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

There is a dearth of evidence to help teachers make informed choices on how to allocate time to asynchronous vs. synchronous online learning. By looking at research into online learning and human development, we can begin to grapple with the advantages and disadvantages of each approach. Let’s start with the basics.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2018

In an equally surprising move for a premier institution, the university is also giving enrolled students in its new online bachelor’s an unprecedented discount— cutting virtual education tuition by $1,000 per credit. In 2014, Nelson Baker, Georgia Tech’s dean of professional education, launched among the very first of these.

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Mark Smithers

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Thanks to Kate Bowles ( @KateMfD ) for sending me a link to an open Coursesites web site (free registration) that has been created for the MOOC discussion at the forthcoming Universities Australia 2014 conference. There are six questions in the discussion area; these are: What have been the most significant impacts of MOOCs?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2021

While at edX Porter created the Open edX project, which has served more than 55 million learners taking massive open online courses, or MOOCs. Esme wants to transform the effectiveness of online learning, increasing both student engagement and the quality of course content.

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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.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2018

Many online learning platforms, such as LinkedIn Learning and MasterClass, are indeed pivoting towards business models that look a lot like subscription-based streaming services Pandora, Spotify or Netflix. Even as we reinvent the platforms and modalities for learning, the teachers at the center of the model are losing out.

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