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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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

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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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

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The Online Learning Consortium (OLC), one of the 12 partner organizations of Every Learner Everywhere, was charged with identifying and understanding innovations in the digital education landscape. To those working in higher education, some of the trends presented by the team may not have come as a surprise.

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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. I have been associated with SUNY since 1989.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2020

When the Sloan Foundation had the bright idea to stimulate digital education at the nation’s colleges and universities a quarter of a century ago, it christened online learning as “asynchronous learning networks,” an eccentric name for what is now known simply as online learning.

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Edsurge

APRIL 27, 2023

The paper describes an experiment in which college students, some male and some female, each watched a short online slide presentation narrated by a computer-generated voice. All participants saw the same slides, but with one of four different voices: “happy female, sad female, happy male, and sad male.”

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2022

On a blockchain, informal learning could also be included and verified , such as information about research experience, individual projects and skills, mentoring or online learning. Technology that makes alternative learning sharable and verifiable elevates these learning paths. As it is often the case, it is both.

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Mark Smithers

DECEMBER 2, 2013

This happened this morning when I read the tweets about Gregor Kennedy’s keynote presentation in which he talked about interactions between students and teachers in online courses. What I’ll try and do now is present one possible model for a learning environment that promotes appropriate interactivity over a large scale.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2020

Restaurants have rapidly shifted to online and mobile ordering, and are speeding up the deployment of digital kiosks that replace human workers. These trends present great risks in a job market that is already polarized and biased toward knowledge work and technology skills, with growing gaps based on educational attainment.

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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.

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ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 1, 2019

Having a blended learning environment available allows collaborative tools to also be incorporated into lessons. This means pupils are able to share thoughts and work together on projects, such as documents or presentations. What are some of the challenges faced with blended learning? What is a blended learning approach?

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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

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Big changes are coming to higher education, and those changes will be bigger and more disruptive than many college leaders realize as online education grows in both size and prestige. Meanwhile, the growth of online programs could change the role of reputation and prestige in higher education.

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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? This group is charged with delivering these recommendations to the faculty and the president, who will present them to the new entity.”

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2020

I remember I used to go around, and I would give a presentation about the importance of online learning. You just couldn’t convince them that online learning is really an important part of the educational arsenal that does harden our infrastructure.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

. – China’s state-controlled news broadcasters have long been considered somewhat robotic in their daily recitation of pro-government propaganda, and a pair of new presenters will do little to dispel that view. Photo: NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP/Getty Images. That’s because “English AI Anchor,” as “he” is named, isn’t human.

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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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Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 14, 2017

Rather she warns that technology can dazzle us so much that we forget the past and lose our way in the present (p. She does however, see a future for blended campus learning, where traditional forms of education stand side by side with online learning in all its forms. 122), but 'completion rates remain dismal'.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Another key dynamic is the emergence of large-scale online learning platforms such as publicly traded companies Coursera and 2U ( now combined with EdX), which are developing a rich ecosystem of courses, microcredentials and full degrees that employers are adopting as a resource for their employees.

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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. Moves the camera to follow presenter around the room.

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Edsurge

MAY 14, 2017

We focus on how we can incorporate the best visuals, music and sound effects in our videos to enhance learning, rather than just present a lecture.” For independent learners, platforms like MEDSKL and MRU present free course opportunities similar to those of MOOCs, but with a few distinctions.

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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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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

" (If this were a literature class, I would tie this attitude to the Italian Futurists and to fascism, but that’s a presentation for another day.). AllLearn wasn't the only online education failure of the early 2000s, of course. There, you can learn that this initiative was headed by one Michael M. Unfathomable. Unknowable.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2017

As online learning companies compete for the attention and wallets of learners, players like MasterClass , Linked Learning , Cognotion and Harvard are investing in producing videos that are so beautiful they could be National Geographic documentaries or sitcom pilots. Educational media is at an inflection point.

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Learning with 'e's

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

For the past 4 or 5 years I have recorded video conversatiins with keynote speakers who have presented at EDEN events. At the conference his key theme was one to one online learning. We also spent some time debating the evolution and trajectory of MOOCs and their significance for the future of education.

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Mark Smithers

DECEMBER 2, 2013

This happened this morning when I read the tweets about Gregor Kennedy’s keynote presentation in which he talked about interactions between students and teachers in online courses. What I’ll try and do now is present one possible model for a learning environment that promotes appropriate interactivity over a large scale.

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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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Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2016

Two years ago, my second-year spring, I went to a student-run, student-organized conference and presented on Mina Loy. It’s simple to talk in the abstract about badges and blockchains, software and scale, Moocs and their manifest destiny. A Personal Genealogy of EdSurge Independent. She’s a poet. I loved it.

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Learning with 'e's

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Teaching en masse has emerged as a significant trend because of a lessening need to create co-present learning environments such as classrooms and lecture halls. Central to this present debate was the preoccupation of humankind to name things in order to understand them better. Name it and you tame it'', goes the old aphorism.

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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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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 20, 2014

When did you first become involved with research into distance education and online learning? Steve: Massive Open Online Courses are currently a major focus of attention for academic, corporates and even governments, and indeed have been covered extensively by the media recently. What are your views on MOOCs?

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 24, 2016

I was there for a few reasons, starting with having the fine opportunity to lead a pre conference workshop, followed by presenting on two panels, helping out with a Twitter component, and reconnecting with dozens of friends and colleagues. But participants were very, very engaged from the start. Rebecca Davis , J.

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Learning should always come first, but what fools we would be if we denied that technology has the potential to make a tangible difference in education! There are numerous examples of technology reshaping educational practices and creating new opportunities for the sharing of knowledge.

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GoConqr

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

This is a complex role where the teacher may need to guide the students on things like study skills, internet searches, presentations, provide feedback on drafts and more formative guidance. Mobile learning. Many online learning platforms can be used with smartphones, tablets, and desktop computers.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 6, 2014

While all the details of the two days and the 100+ conference sessions, keynotes, and distinguished speaker presentations are on the Library 2.014 conference site , a quick listing is below to get you thinking about which sessions you might be able to attend live. The keynote speakers presentation descriptions and bios are at [link].

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