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

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

At the very dawn of digital education, Canada introduced one of the very first learning management systems, WebCT, a pivotal application, invented at the University of British Columbia in 1997. Following Monterrey’s success, other Mexican higher ed institutions have launched new online programs mirroring Monterey Tech’s model.

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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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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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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

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

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

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

JUNE 17, 2020

The moral of that tale, he adds, is there is probably no easy, silver-bullet questionnaire that can be asked at the beginning of any online course to improve completion, as some learning scientists had hoped. Considering Context But that doesn’t mean Reich has given up on behavioral interventions in online learning.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Online to the Rescue As an online dean, over two decades my philosophical position was that there should be no difference between virtual and face-to-face education. In my new book, Going Online , I argued: “By and large, colleges and universities charge the same tuition on campus and online.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2018

While not quite the “Year of the MOOC,” 2018 saw a resurgence in interest around the ways these massive open online courses are delivering free (and more often these days, not free) online education around the world, and how these providers are increasingly turning to traditional institutions of learning.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 16, 2020

Online courses, including certificates and degree programs, make it easy to learn on any schedule. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are also excellent resources, offering free classes from world-renowned universities. Those majoring in technology education will study technological systems and design their own.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

A single mom in middle America could learn to code from Google instructor. Unless we carefully examine where we put the paywalls and how we cultivate diverse student bodies in our online learning experiences, we risk transposing the same patterns of inequity that have plagued in-person education into our digital classrooms.

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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. So what do we do with the results of this research?

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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

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. Not A Gold Rush The edtech market may not seem as attractive to new entries at the moment.

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Edsurge

MAY 29, 2018

in Management of Information Systems from Claremont Graduate University. A passion for lifelong learning led to more change when he left a teaching position at a traditional university for a role at Ashford University —a completely online school. Dr. Jongbok Byun How does online learning benefit students?

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2019

Coursera , a global online learning platform that offers courses, certificates and degrees from more than 150 universities, announced Thursday it had secured $103 million in a Series E round to expand its international reach and prepare learners for the rising challenges of the “Fourth Industrial Revolution.”

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2022

The system of recording information secures digital data in a way that makes it traceable and difficult to alter. The possibilities for applying this type of system in education are extensive. Technology that makes alternative learning sharable and verifiable elevates these learning paths. Learning behavior and outcomes?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Writing about online learning in higher education over the last several years, I often noted the steady growth of remote learning nationwide against the sluggish adoption of digital instruction among most Ivy League colleges. And some Ivies offer graduate certificate programs online.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2020

It seems certain that more professional learning will happen outside of traditional institutions and campuses – especially if colleges fail to adapt. Learning is increasingly happening in the workplace, or “ in the flow of work.”

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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. Education could be less expensive, it could be more engaging, it could have a bigger impact, but we are confined to a system that values dollars first.” I’m curious what you think about that?

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Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

Some new services and platforms will emerge to cater for different forms of learning, MOOCs will evolve and improve and open badges will be hot. Look out for rhizomatic learning. The MOOC backlash. Of course I have to start with MOOCs. The MOOC backlash started in earnest in 2013. Introduction.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

But the paper does lay out a set of concrete recommendations for what this new type of university, which is simply called an NEI, or New Educational Institution, should include to fill what the authors see as gaps in the current system. The paper was published by the Abdul Latif Jameel World Education Lab at MIT.

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Linways Technologies

APRIL 22, 2020

Here we are talking about virtual campus management solutions or online learning management solutions that can essentially digitize the teaching-learning. Data-Driven Results As an institution, the way you treat education and manage it is different from MOOCs or short-term online courses.

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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. In it, it would say, “It will harden the education system against things like public national disasters, epidemics,” and so forth. And you could see audiences looking at me going, “You know she’s just a prepper.”

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Edsurge

JANUARY 29, 2019

He made the move to his new phase of scholarly life during a rush of enthusiasm for so-called MOOCs, Massive Open Online Courses, that big-name colleges were starting to offer low-cost higher education to a wider audience. Back in the day I was a complex systems philosopher of science. Is it sustainable? Did you pull it off?

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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

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eSchool News

JULY 22, 2024

Pre-pandemic, Meriden was already dipping its toe into online learning, so we had some tech-savvy teachers doing things with Moodle or Schoology,” Moore. We had some experience with online learning.” We really did a lot in getting everybody online. Then came the pandemic. “We

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Bryan Alexander

JUNE 30, 2021

ITEM: Language learning app Duolingo, founded by Luis von Ahn , filed an IPO. ITEM: major learning management system/ virtual learning environment provider Instructure , maker of Canvas, also filed for an IPO. As Paul Fain put it , “MOOCs have become OPMs.” Its user base and earnings are rising.

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Edsurge

APRIL 21, 2021

For instance, you can sign up for short online courses on how to play the harmonica or declutter your home. In part because of this open approach to online learning, Udemy claims to have the largest course catalog anywhere, with more than 155,000 courses. They become professional at this,” he says.

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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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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 5, 2021

As a term, ‘asynchronous learning’ is often used to describe student-to-student or teacher-student interactions occurring–‘apart’ at different times, using different tools, at different paces and in different locations. ” The post What Is An Asynchronous Learning Community? ” Reflect.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Just as formal education systems made a dramatic shift to digital since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, on-the-job training is changing as well. The same forces that transformed classrooms have accelerated the adoption of more digital learning in workplace training—advancing a trend that was already underway.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

AllLearn wasn't the only online education failure of the early 2000s, of course. Columbia University invested $30 million into its own online learning initiative, Fathom, that opened in 2000 and closed in 2003. There, you can learn that this initiative was headed by one Michael M. We can debate which one. Unfathomable.

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Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 14, 2017

Cathy Davidson is quite critical of current the higher education system, citing numerous examples of how creativity is stifled and how '.the 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.

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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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