The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Teaching Channel Presenter: Five Essential Practices in the Elementary ELL Classroom Presenter at the Good Teaching Conference (2016, 2019)- Using HyperLinks in Classroom Curriculum, Design Thinking with MakeyMakeys Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) Video with San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) Multilingual Department Presenter at SFUSD (..)

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 18, 2020

Some of the features include live streaming, screen sharing, and interactive presentations. MOOCS (massive online open courses) are different from virtual classes, and are usually offered by colleges and universities. They’re meant to be supplementary sessions to those who are already taking actual courses. Artificial Intelligence.

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Trends EdTech MOOC Learning Analytics 282

Digital Promise

MAY 20, 2016

We conceived of this crowdsourced design project as part of a massive open online course (MOOC) on Canvas Network and sought out an all volunteer team of designers, facilitators, and subject matter experts to help us. The four key factors: Use a real-world instructional design challenge. Create a clear design guide. The Impact.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Students are presented with a choice of digital missions with real world impact. Join my free online course where we work on digital learning missions, The Goal-Minded Teacher MOOC ( #EduGoalsMOOC ). Mission-Minded Learning Makes the World a Better Place. 12+ Learning Missions created by teachers worldwide.

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Technology MOOC Social Media Learning 260

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 6, 2020

Massive Open Online Courses (Sometimes referred to as MOOCs) – MOOCs are readily available courses that are presented online. MOOCs are not an ideal way for most students to learn. MOOCs are available from a variety of sources including Coursera , edX and individual participating universities.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 27, 2022

The projects go through various phases of reflection-revision-critique-revision until presented to the class. Students had the chance and the time to do projects that sparked their curiosity and interests, allowing them to transfer learning from outside the classroom into their academic development.

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Future Ready Education Digital Divide MOOC 437

Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 28, 2020

Below are slides from my recent presentation, tips and resources to help you recharge. Click the headings in the slide presentation below to visit the resources. Twitter Chats, webinars, MOOCs, online courses, online conferences, virtual events, livestreams, Edcamps, Facebook groups, #Hashtags. Online courses and MOOCs.

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Mark Smithers

MARCH 12, 2013

This morning Richard Grusin posted a series of twenty tweets presenting a highly critical and thought provoking view of MOOCs. These are valuable so I’ve presented them here in this post. MOOCs are the bastard children of 1980s cyber-utopianism and post-1945 economic neoliberalism.

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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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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2018

Unfortunately, most massive open online course (MOOC) platforms still feel like drafty lecture halls instead of intimate seminar rooms. This presents a challenge and an opportunity: How can we design online learning environments that achieve scale and intimacy? I think we’ve seen this reemergence—unintentionally—in the form of MOOCs.

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Online Learning MOOC Learning Case Study 156

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. And it is the richest, with nearly three-quarters of a billion in cash in the bank, and annual revenue of about $260 million. "EdX

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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 video lectures are professionally created and presented in short chunks and are interactive ! Have you had any experiences with MOOCs?

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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. His educational journey started in 1998 teaching little children to speak English.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Just to give a few examples, Khan Academy , Crash Course , and popular MOOC sites like Coursera and edX have started a revolution in education, making their own content or their partners’ content (especially higher university institutions on Coursera and edX) available for everyone. Read more: 6 Things you may not know about MOOCs.

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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. 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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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. That presents both an opportunity and a challenge.

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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. Open educational resources” (OER) here refers to the many free learning resources now populating the Worldwide Web.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past. We could participate in a number of free Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs), including over a dozen on Chinese History from Harvard University. My class would be in YouTube heaven.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 25, 2012

Each is free to attend, and each has an emphasis on encouraging participation and presentations--even if you''ve never done so before. Everyone is encouraged to participate--you can present, attend, and/or volunteer to help! They are part of my Web 2.0 Labs projects, designed to provide spaces for great conversations around education.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

For many, what ISTE is doing with online courses may sound similar to MOOCs (massive open online courses), or other online certifications for educators offered by big companies such as Google, Apple and Microsoft. South says the group has run pilot versions of the courses and have received useful feedback from educators.

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Conference MOOC EdTech Digital Citizenship 116

The Thinking Stick

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

In their methods courses, where teachers learn the mechanics of running a classroom, 71 percent report that they’re taught to use simple word processing, spreadsheets and database tools, 64 percent report learning how to create multimedia presentations and 55 percent say they’ve learned how to use interactive whiteboards. ~ MindShift.

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EdTechSandyK

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Notes from MOOCs for Professional Development Presentation at TCEA 2015 Dr. Kay Abernathy, Lamar University [link] Lamar University sponsored the MOOC on Social Media Communication Tools for Educators which Dr. Abernathy facilitated. You can build up to five MOOCs for free on this platform. link] What is a MOOC?

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2021

Its portfolio includes “unicorns” like Coursera, one of the original MOOCs that is reportedly exploring options to go public. Quazzo didn’t rule out the possibility, and noted that even if it did happen, it would not present a conflict of interest. “We Several past GSV investments have turned into a big payday. billion in 2017.

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EdTech Coursera Company MOOC 173

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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Trends MOOC iPhone Instructional Materials 183

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Oral presentations became screen-casted videos of student-created builds. Minecraft MOOC EVO Minecraft MOOC YouTube. “Or video games,” one student suggested. I replied, and then someone popped the Minecraft question. Fast forward a few weeks; Minecraft kept finding its way into my classroom. Language Learning and Minecraft.

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Wiki MOOC Handbook Case Study 167

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. As it is often the case, it is both.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2020

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. Restaurants have rapidly shifted to online and mobile ordering, and are speeding up the deployment of digital kiosks that replace human workers.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

For example, most of the enrolled students in fully asynchronous MOOCs are adults, and even in this context, completion can be challenging. Likewise, the community developed in the synchronous environment can help students feel more motivated when they work on their own; for example, creating a presentation they will share with peers.

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ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 1, 2019

This means pupils are able to share thoughts and work together on projects, such as documents or presentations. In order to reduce the amount of new content a teacher needs to make, YouTube videos, MOOC s, multiple choice questions and web-based resources can be combined. What are some of the challenges faced with blended learning?

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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. New Options One major reason is the explosion of relatively high-quality, free or low-cost professional learning options in recent years.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2020

To some extent, the present boom in online learning is a consequence of traditional colleges following the enterprising techniques introduced by for-profits who left small-scale institutions in the dust. New online schools have been announced for Massachusetts, California and elsewhere.

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eSpark

APRIL 7, 2022

MOOC refers to a massive online open course, a type of distance learning. MOOCs are generally prevalent in higher education, but are starting to be used at the high school level as well. The presentation of material is adapted to students’ needs based on their responses to questions and tasks.

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Educator Innovator

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Whenever I am presented with the opportunity to participate in any form of professional development, the most important question that I ask is this: Is it worth my time? Then you sign up for the Learning Differences MOOC-Ed , and you learn about working memory. By “worth my time” I do not mean, Will I enjoy it or is it fun?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

His room is presented in horror-movie fashion, with dim lighting and discordant music, and the toys are all in pieces, as Sid dismantles them and remakes them in his own crazy way. It feels more like an inventor's workshop, but Sid's room is presented very sinister like. He's a real inventor.

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techieMusings

MAY 19, 2016

Sophomores have the opportunity to spend a period of their day learning through a MOOC of their choosing. Their MOOC worktime is an assigned period within their school day. When students are in their MOOC course, they all report to the open learning space, as in the pictures below. Math Rotation Model.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 31, 2016

One of the most cost-effective means to create a more personalized and individualized learning experience for students is through the use of OpenCourseWare (OCW) and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC's). Perhaps one day, the twenty-first century will be remembered as the time when knowledge became available to everyone for free.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 4, 2022

edWeb is also a Finalist in two other categories: Online Courses/MOOC Solution and EdTech Company Setting a Trend. Lisa Schmucki, the founder and CEO, commented, “The past two years have presented us with such unprecedented crises and challenges. edWeb.net Founder and CEO, Lisa Schmucki , is a Finalist for the Visionary Award.

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