EdTech4Beginners

APRIL 2, 2017

The amount of new acronyms in the educational technology world is staggering… and often overwhelming for educators. AUP – Acceptable Use Policy. BYOT – Bring Your Own Technology. CREATE – Collaboartion, Resources, Educate, Apps, Technology, Enriching. ICT – Information Communications Technology. Vlog – Video Log.

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EdTech VLE CMS OER 189

Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2020

Community college has even risen to a key policy point in national and state politics, with politicians touting plans and creating models for “free college ,” which often mean tuition-free options for community college as a pathway to four-year degrees or other credentials. But are community colleges ready for this digital transformation?

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Digital Badges MOOC Trends Industry 216

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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MOOC Coursera Course Report 72

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. K-12 context, individual teacher’s choices about instructional materials are constrained by district and state policy anyway.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

With the two last directors of the federal Office of Education Technology, Richard Culatta and Joseph South, at the helms of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), it is no surprise that the organization is seeking to expand and rebrand.

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Conference MOOC EdTech Digital Citizenship 115

Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Education policy leaders at the federal level and beyond were exploring the growing role of competency-based education and non-traditional providers —and calls were growing for stronger connections between universities and the world of employment. To start off, it’s worth thinking back to 2016.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

Ajita previously served in the Obama Administration as Special Assistant to the President for Higher Education Policy at the White House Domestic Policy Council, where she led efforts to expand college opportunity, affordability, innovation and completion. Department of Education.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 25, 2013

OER ranges from highly structured college courses (MOOCs) to less structured curricula from colleges and other institutes of learning (OpenCourseWare a/k/a OCW), to free online textbooks, and everything in between. Standards, and New Jersey World Class Standards in Technology. One exchange was exceptionally important for me.

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2022

Users who follow Meta’s monetization policies can offer paid live events, allowing them to offer things like cooking classes or fundraisers. It aims to make it easier to instruct and discover a class on Facebook pic.twitter.com/L0BvBuTXkM — Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra) January 21, 2021.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2020

Since these non-degree credentials are being provided by a wide range of universities, technology firms, online education companies and professional associations, there is opportunity for partnership across this ecosystem in ways that link shorter-form learning to degree pathways.

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Digital Badges Coursera Learning Industry 214

Edsurge

MAY 30, 2019

It came from George Siemens, a longtime leader in trying to understand the impact of technology on higher ed. He’s the guy who coined the term MOOC, short for Massive Open Online Course, which then was a reference to multiplayer video games. The other day I was scrolling through Twitter when a message caught my eye. Learn more here.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2020

One is to set clearly what your guiding principles are, principles like high quality, maximum equity, flexibility, community, and being super prescriptive about the broad policy decisions that need to be made. But another big takeaway from this experience has been that learning innovation isn’t about the technology.

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Education Policies Course Trends 183

Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2018

In an unusual move, DeVos spent the bulk of the session serving as moderator, asking questions and seeking policy advice from three panelists. Clayton said he was not a policy expert and passed, and Wallerstein hesitated and said that he had sympathy for the complexity of the secretary’s role.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

” Competency-Based Education isn’t necessarily an innovation, but a move to Competency-Based Education can lead to other innovations–using technology to personalize a student’s navigation of to-be-mastered content, for example. Video Streaming/ Flipped Classroom/eLearning Trends. An example? Open Curriculum.

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Examples MOOC Education Competency Based Learning 143

Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2019

There was also plenty of rain in the education technology industry, where venture capitalists and private-equity investors unleashed a deluge of cash. education technology companies raised $1.45 educational technology companies whose primary purpose is to support educators and learners across preK-12 and postsecondary education.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Tracy Mitrano , an attorney who used to be the director information technology policy at Cornell University , holds an opinion on the issue that’s common among academics. Kentaro Toyama , another professor at the University of Michigan, thinks that large companies are “already eroding” net neutrality even under the current policy. “I

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Digital Learning Coursera Company Learning 143

Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2017

What I’m really in favor of is all public institutions having this sort of aggressive, affirmative information policy—that you tell people who you are or what you do, why you’re different, why you matter. You also pointed out that MOOCs don’t receive much buzz today as three years ago. Do you agree? Then yep, we’re on board.”

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EdNews Daily

APRIL 26, 2017

When they don’t lead to credit, the online courses may be available tuition-free as ‘MOOCs’ (Massive Open Online Courses), but they do not allow students to earn traditional college degrees. However, when these courses provide traditional college credit, they generally cost just as much as the same course at a college campus.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2018

Still, he says the program is going well, and is just one of the university’s efforts at what he called “open-scale courseware,” the university’s attempt to rebrand a concept that was once known as MOOCs, or massive open online courses. He says ASU has no plans to create a MicroBachelors, however.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 8, 2012

Recipient of the Pythagoras Prize, the Peano Prize, the Carl Sagan Award, and the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics Communications Award. Media X is Stanford''s catalyst for industry and academic research partnerships on the impact of information and technology on society.' He is "the Math Guy" on National Public Radio.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2018

Plus, it sounded a lot like a MOOC (short for “massive open online courses”)—free courses designed for thousands of students that were all the rage a few years ago, but which today are seen as having fallen far short of the hype. It’s a new kind of MOOC, and it’s a new kind of philosophy,” he says.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2017

In a report, the agency cited constrained revenue growth in tuition and uncertainty in federal policy. One early version of this new kind of partnership was used to build and deliver Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) through alliances like Coursera and edX.

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Coursera MOOC Industry Company 124

Tom Murray

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

As school leaders, AASA supports their members in setting the pace for academic achievement as they work to shape policy, oversee implementation, and represent school districts throughout the nation and worldwide. State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA). Connect: www.setda.org , @SETDA.

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Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2016

The Chinese Ministry of Education is encouraging the growth of local MOOCs, with a policy that sets targets of 1,000 from Chinese universities by 2017 and 3,000 by 2020. When Coursera partnered with Guokr in 2013 , we were featured with only a few other partners. Now, Guokr lists over 45 platforms. And new platforms mean more content.

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Company Coursera EdTech E-rate 104

Edsurge

MAY 21, 2021

“They want to serve in their own locales, but their markets need to go farther,” says Holly Zanville, a research professor and co-director of the Program on Skills, Credentials, and Workforce Policy at George Washington University who recently published a commissioned report about Unmudl.

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Edsurge

JUNE 22, 2017

MOOC providers such as Coursera and edX have recognized this trend for years, with hundreds of organized MeetUps around the world where their learners are encouraged to join study and discussion groups related to their online-only courses. Notably,the tens of millions of dollars being invested by M.I.T. Earlier this month, M.I.T.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2016

In particular, continuing education programs are less regulated, more responsive to industry and consumer needs, have less restrictive budget policies and procurement systems, operate under lower political pressure, and are often infused with the “startup mentality” that is critical for responding to and pioneering disruptive innovations.

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Competency Based Learning Education Trends MOOC 135

Perry Hewitt

JULY 3, 2015

What does the White House’s new photography policy tell us about the opportunity for brand building? The first few years of widespread access to MOOCs have created a data trove for researchers. The first one: MOOC students are diverse, but trend toward autodidacts. Don’t miss this astonishing gallery for a great escape.

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MOOC Trends Facebook Data 60

The Shake Up Learning Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). MOOC’s are usually free online courses offered by universities with no limit on enrollment. See: Copyright Policy. Inside Google Classroom, you can share study materials, ask questions, and support each other as you prepare to master your certification exams.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

One idea that may not be that controversial, but which needs to be shored up and practiced more across North America, is integration with real world experience, particularly in the information technology sector. Another is the rise of the MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) or online instructional platforms like edX, Coursera, or Udacity.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The report divides these credentials into 18 categories across four types of providers: postsecondary educational institutions, MOOC organizations, secondary schools and non-academic entities. New to the research this year is a count of how many groups in the U.S. provide credentials: 59,692.

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EdTechSandyK

APRIL 8, 2014

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. Close to 10% of students got into MIT by excelling in a MOOC. In library they are using stop motion technology to develop stories.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Some of this is a result of an influx of Silicon Valley types in recent years — people with no ties to education or education technology who think that their ignorance and lack of expertise is a strength. In technology, all that matters is tomorrow." I mean forgetting what happened five, ten years ago.

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Hack Education

JULY 7, 2017

.” Lots, lots more about Betsy DeVos’ policies in the student loan and for-profit higher ed sections below. Via Politico : “The American Action Forum , a right-leaning public policy group, is recommending that DeVos consider gutting the federal student aid pilot programs created under the Higher Education Act.

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Hack Education

MAY 6, 2020

I want to talk to you today about the history of educational crises and education technology. And as we lurch from crisis to crisis — real crisis or manufactured crisis — technology has often been proposed as the fix, "the solution." And we surely need to ask, who proposes technology as the solution? Whose fix is this?

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Education Report Khan Academy Examples 142

Edsurge

DECEMBER 14, 2016

If people were allowed to change names of things to get around laws, I could offer a degre, with one e,” says Russ Poulin, director of policy and analysis for WCET, a nonprofit promoting e-learning programs. Poulin admits that state regulations have not kept up with the technology, calling such laws “woefully behind. Flashback to 2012.

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Coursera MOOC Course Company 60

Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

But the technology lends a question: to what extent should educational products make assumptions about a user’s end goal? Speakers from University of Virginia, University of Maryland, MIT and University of Pennsylvania will share what works, what doesn’t and how they have built structures to support technology initiatives on their campuses.

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