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This year, some of the most highly recommended virtual classrooms include Big Blue Button, which is for classes with a lot of file sharing (such as STEM), and Electa Live for institutions that prefer to give live lectures. They’re meant to be supplementary sessions to those who are already taking actual courses.
LMS – Learning Management System (software that runs and manages educational programs). MLD – Mobile Learning Devices. MLearning – Mobile Learning. MOOC – Massively Open Online Course (an online course which has video lectures, problem solving activities, texts and an online community of fellow learners).
Somewhere between our collective obsession with predictive analytics and infatuation with adaptive learning, higher education wonks and practitioners are making time to deconstruct the quality attributes of online courses. New technologies promise a more adaptive and personalizedlearning experience.
We know from the rise in free massive open online courses, better known as MOOCs, that a scholar on a screen can and already has replaced the sage on the stage. And in an age in which medicines can be personalized to one’s genetic code, technology can help teachers meet the unique needs of every child.
Researchers testing tiny ear computer Continuous professional development: teachers teaching teachers New tertiary education strategy focus: Workplace skills Infographic: Fueling a PersonalizedLearning Revolution A Guidebook for Social Media in the Classroom This startup wants high-schoolers to invent.
The report notes, “Success in teaching is closely tied to test results, and teachers are not frequently rewarded for innovative approaches and improvements in teaching and learning, much less allowed to scale and replicate these breakthroughs.” This environment of stagnation frustrates many teachers and prevents good ideas from spreading.
” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). From iNACOL: “ Promising State Policies for PersonalizedLearning.” The biggest growth occurred at the graduate level, but despite years of investment in attracting more American students to STEM, that expansion was not homegrown.”
Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via the Coursera blog : “ Coursera now offers free trials for most Specializations.” ” “ Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Hiring Personalized-Learning Engineers ,” says Education Week. “Learning engineers.” Remember MOOCs?
Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Class Central : “ TU Delft Students Can Earn Credit For MOOCs From Other Universities.” ” Well, this will be useful to “personalizelearning,” won’t it. McCarthyism is back,” writes David Palumbo-Liu. .”
Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). It’s baaaaack: “Return of the MOOC ,” The City Journal tells us. There’s some (sorta) MOOC-related news in the venture funding section below. Because MOOCs on an airplane proved to be such an effective mode of instruction.
” From the Department of Education press release : “Secretary DeVos Accepts President Trump’s Q2 Salary as a Donation for STEM-Focused Camp.” Bloomberg reports that “ Trump Administration Tapping Tech CEOs for STEM Policy Approach.” ” “What if MOOCs Revolutionize Education After All?”
Department of Education Fulfills Administration Promise to Invest $200 Million in STEM Education.” ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). From Pearson : “ AI-based tutoring : A new kind of personalizedlearning.” But nice PR.). Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.
” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “The University of California, Los Angeles , is planning a major expansion in the online certificate and graduate degree markets that it hopes will reach as many as 15,000 students by early next decade,” Inside Higher Ed reports. for Robotics Contest.”
” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “Why Haven’t MOOCs Eliminated Any Professors?” He’s referring to “ personalizedlearning ,” but might as well be any buzzword when you frame the headline that way, bud.). ” asks IHE blogger Joshua Kim.
Congratulations, STEM folks and learn-to-code evangelists, for being featured in President Trump’s list of his 2017 accomplishments. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Subscription boxes for teachers are somehow “ personalizedlearning.” You must be so proud.
” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Inside Higher Ed : “Lessons Learned From a Consortium That Fizzled.” ” A MOOC consortium , that is, with member institutions Davidson College , Colgate University , Hamilton College , and Wellesley College. .”
Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “That Hilarious Tweet About an Instructor’s Big Mistake? ” Via Rutgers Today : “Is There a STEM Worker Shortage ? ” Daniel Willingham on learning styles. Almost Certainly Fake.”
He believes the future of education means all STEM, no arts and no humanities. ” There’s more MOOC-related research in the research section below. “The Growing Role of Technology in PersonalizedLearning ,” according to KQED’s Mindshift. Colleges Will Disappear.”
Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). To borrow from Jello Biaffra, “MOOCs aren’t dead, they just deserve to die.” ” From Edsurge : “How Blockbuster MOOCs Could Shape the Future of Teaching.” ” There’s more MOOC-related news in the nanodegree section below.
Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). In other words, MOOCs are now gym memberships. Initially, the course will be available to anyone as a MOOC with an optional $99 identity-verified certificate. ” Via Techcrunch : “ IBM Watson and Udacity want developers to learn AI online.”
Related, via Salon : “ Silicon Valley ’s $300M donation to STEM educatio n is not what it seems.” In the future, you might want to look for most MOOC-related news in the “business of job training” section below. “ Is Homework Compatible With PersonalizedLearning? 2 Post at Ed.
” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Chalkbeat investigates the Indiana Virtual School : “As students signed up, online school hired barely any teachers – but founder’s company charged it millions.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ DeVry Parent Company Makes Pledges to Students.”
Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Class Central : “ XuetangX : A Look at China’s First and Biggest MOOC Platform.” ” “ Facebook ’s Child Workforce” – Cathy “Mathbabe” O’Neil on Facebook’s personalizedlearning software.
In 2013, on the heels of “the Year of the MOOC,” Barber released a report titled “An Avalanche is Coming,” calling for the “unbundling” of higher education. MOOCs are, no surprise, their own entry on this long list of awfulness. PersonalizedLearning" Software (and Facebook and Summit Public Schools).
Department of Education Announces STEM , Computer Science Education Grant Opportunities.” ’” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Reminder: a lot of MOOC news is now job training news, so you’ll find some updates in that section below.
” Via The Atlantic : “It’s Getting Harder for International STEM Students to Find Work After Graduation.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Gotta keep that MOOC hype alive. “ MOOCs Find a New Audience with On-Campus Students,” Edsurge claims. Watch and see).
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