Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2017

Since the New York Times named 2012 the year of massive open online courses (MOOCs), millions have flocked to platforms offering them such as edX and Coursera. The six-week long MOOC will touch on topics including open educational resources (OER), open pedagogy and practice, open knowledge and open research. Ekowo: Why this MOOC?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 29, 2016

The modern massive open online course movement, which began when the first “MOOCs” were offered by Stanford professors in late 2011, is now half a decade old. In that time, MOOC providers have raised over $400 million and now employ more than a thousand staff. Class Central. million Udacity - 4 million. And it seems to be working.

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The Web20Classroom

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Traditional colleges and universities are also facing a new generation of learning options through MOOCs. You might want to consider what the course outcome will be, if the courses lead to degree or certification, or if there is additional course work you’ll need that isn’t offered online. There’s course for almost anyone!

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Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2023

Officials for the group tell EdSurge that the goal is to partner with others to support projects that build better student engagement in online courses or support better college and career outcomes. The founding came at the height of public excitement around free online courses known as MOOCs, which stands for Massive Open Online Courses.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2021

It has the most users of any provider of MOOCs (as the large-scale online courses are sometimes called), claiming more than 77 million learners. Dhawal Shaw, founder of MOOC-discovery platform Class Central. We measure ourselves on outcomes—outcomes in terms of how many people have we impacted.” Downsides of Openness?

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Linways Technologies

APRIL 28, 2020

He spoke on assessment strategies in the Outcome-Based Education (OBE) framework. It still remains unanswered whether students are actually being able to achieve the learning outcomes.”. Outcome-Based Education is currently implemented in the form of graduate attributes, which are broken down to course outcomes.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Most authoring software also integrates assessment tools, testing learning outcomes. In the most recent annual Campus Computing Survey , a majority of academic CIOs concluded that “adaptive technology has great potential to improve learning outcomes.” The term MOOC was coined by others in 2008.)

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Edsurge

JULY 23, 2021

I was among those who argued that if students receive the same education from the same faculty, leading—more or less—to the same outcomes, tuition should be the same for both. Since then, MOOC degrees have mushroomed , now with more than 70 others available in partnership with about 30 first-class universities worldwide.

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Doug Levin

MAY 12, 2015

I don’t fret much at all over some of what Clark raises: the acceptance and/or lack of broader cheer-leading for Wikipedia, MOOCs, or Khan Academy as success stories. ” (and hat tip to Nicole Allen for being the one to bring it to my attention). Now don’t get me wrong. In my experience, most U.S.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The primary trends identified by the team were: adaptive learning, open education resources (OER), gamification and game-based learning, MOOCs, LMS and interoperability, mobile devices, and design. As the conversation continued, Joosten discussed the importance of design in online course development, a primary finding in the scan.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2020

While high-resolution data for community colleges isn’t available, we can see evidence for this in proxies such as Google search trends , consumers’ growing openness and intention to study online , booming MOOC enrollment , and publicly-traded online learning company enrollment results.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Research studies don’t provide strong evidence that synchronous learning universally leads to better student engagement and learning outcomes than asynchronous learning or vice versa. For example, most of the enrolled students in fully asynchronous MOOCs are adults, and even in this context, completion can be challenging.

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2018

The MOOC is an extension of the on-campus course—it was really just making our on-campus experience public and open for anyone to follow,” says Barba. A group of biology researchers from the University of Washington have tested Barba’s theory that active learning improves outcomes for STEM students in particular.

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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. and a discrete focus on outcomes, including skills-related outcomes.

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2019

Unfortunately, there are all sorts of metrics that have become popularized in the world of higher ed that have little to do with outcomes for students. Early MOOC experiments had more than 100,000 students per course. Why isn’t Minerva’s university putting its new tech into practice?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2020

Recently, Coursera announced a modular MOOC-based bachelor’s degree with the University of North Texas, and edX is experimenting with “ MicroBachelors ” programs as pathways to degrees. The bigger market is college and career.

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Edsurge

MAY 31, 2022

Just look at Fiveable, who’s helping students across the world create communities with virtual study rooms, or Aktiv Learning, who’s improving outcomes in STEM courses for university students. Right now, actually, I’m thinking about how we can improve completion rates for MOOCs and online courses.

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2022

For example, including MOOCs in a student’s education transcript might allow that student to demonstrate achievements and skills gained outside of traditional higher education institutions, especially if data are stored in a decentralized way that is not dependent on the database of a university. Learning behavior and outcomes?

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2017

You also pointed out that MOOCs don’t receive much buzz today as three years ago. The MOOC moment happened, and what it really just did is give legitimate cover for the less-prestigious institutions to invest in online education. So do you think MOOCs paved the way for the online programs that we’re seeing more and more of?

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2018

We often ask students to write an essay of 3,000 words on a topic, and it must have six learning outcomes ,” he said. “So So students write 500 words on each of the learning outcomes—and if they don’t, they’ll get marked down by the grader.” That has created a culture that discourages creativity, he argued.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 8, 2022

For example, a leader from the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development explained during the webinar how her state is creating a digital search tool that lets people select among all the credential options available to them, sorting by occupation, program location and graduate outcomes. provide credentials: 59,692.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

can’t just say, “Here’s a MOOC, or here’s an online degree, or a 6- to 12-week immersive bootcamp.”. So much of our current educational market is needlessly opaque because we do not provide easily consumable outcomes data at the program level to prospective learners. We have to do better.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

And what we'll see is a growing focus on outcomes.” And that means that just because different students are offered the same access to a certain kind of experience, such as, say, an online format they may not be ready for, that won’t necessarily lead to fair outcomes, he adds. What we're talking about is: Have you achieved the outcome?”

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2018

SACS is one of the more, I would say, strict accrediting bodies, where they get down into the detail of learning outcomes in every single course. And you can't define ahead of time what those learning outcomes are going to be in those cases. So [ Southern Asscoation of Schools and Colleges ] is our accreditor. It's a discovery process.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2019

In response, schools and companies alike have responded with innovative ideas, but almost all focus on applying technology—like predictive analytics, blended learning, and MOOC-enabled degrees—to student support and instructional services. Yet new technologies often overshadow the equally urgent need for new business models.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

In part, this adopts a model some MIT professors already use, called a Small Private Online Course, or SPOC —a customized adaption of the Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs, that sparked wide attention a decade ago. In some cases, that might mean partnering with libraries and other facilities to teach classes.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

The ID ticks off the boxes for alignment of learning outcomes and accessibility and sends the faculty on his or her way to teach the course. Patrice Torcivia ( @profpatrice ) works on working on the design, production, and support for CornellX MOOCs, online courses and digital initiatives at Cornell University.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2024

Just over a decade ago, we were gripped by the euphoria around MOOCs — educational videos accessible to all via the Internet. MOOCs wound up playing a helpful supporting role in education, but the stars of the show remained the human teachers; in-person learning environments turned out to be essential. An inflection point!”

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Edsurge

APRIL 27, 2023

It turns out, one of the world’s most-cited educational researchers, Richard Mayer , is working on a series of studies looking at what kind of computer-generated voices and images are most engaging to learners and lead to the best outcomes.

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The PL2C Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

The Friday Institute and Oak Foundation seek to end this anachronism with the Learning Differences MOOC for Educators (MOOC-Ed). When combined with the self-directed, anytime, anywhere learning facilitated in the MOOC-Ed, the experience proved to be powerful. The success of the course hinges on meaningful peer connections.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Its answer: one that offers evidence of competencies and corresponds clearly with positive employment outcomes in fields that have substantial job opportunities. The report breaks this down into more detail, calling for credentials associated with evidence of “substantial job opportunities” and employment and earnings outcomes.

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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. The MOOC backlash. Of course I have to start with MOOCs. The MOOC backlash started in earnest in 2013. MOOC providers will keep on refining them. Introduction.

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Educator Innovator

DECEMBER 8, 2015

It takes more than just engaging content to have a successful MOOC. Through an inquiry-based process, our partner The Friday Institute discovered that offering multiple ways for participants to connect during the MOOC led to more positive outcomes. “The success of the course hinges on meaningful peer connections.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2017

As the bubbly enthusiasm in the democratizing power of platforms like Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and Khan Academy quietly wanes, we’ve seen more attention to digital inequity like the homework gap and gender discrimination in coding careers.

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Educator Innovator

DECEMBER 8, 2015

It takes more than just engaging content to have a successful MOOC. Through an inquiry-based process, our partner The Friday Institute discovered that offering multiple ways for participants to connect during the MOOC led to more positive outcomes. “The success of the course hinges on meaningful peer connections.

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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. In other words, we’re leaders in understanding and structuring curriculum, pedagogy, outcomes, competencies and the science of learning.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

This approach helps you clarify your target outcomes and how you’ll collect “evidence of learning.” Check out the list of global MOOC platforms curated by Class Central, but realize there are entirely different ecosystems of platforms that specialize in corporate training or adaptive learning.

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