EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2018

In fact, an astounding 40 percent of makerspace teachers reported that they had received no PD on makerspaces at all. I decided to base my doctoral thesis on them: “ Tinkering in K–12: An Exploratory Mixed Methods Study of Makerspaces in Schools as an Application of Constructivist Learning.”. That’s 40 percent too many.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 18, 2020

Additionally, Chron reports that some schools have even replaced the usual blackboard and whiteboard with smartboards this year. MOOCS (massive online open courses) are different from virtual classes, and are usually offered by colleges and universities. Now, nearly every classroom is at least equipped with a screen and projector.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Interview with Jon Samuelson, @JonSamuelson: Digital Reporters! 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. Challenge: Join the chat.

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2018

Many institutions are struggling to prepare for the upcoming regulations, Inside Higher Ed previously reported. MOOC-provider Coursera, for example, claims to have 6.5 MOOC-provider Coursera, for example, claims to have 6.5 Across all geographies, Europe has one of the highest concentration of MOOC users in the world.

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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 23, 2021

I recently came upon a pair of contradictory articles about what colleges will be charging for tuition next academic year: One reporting that Ohio State University found reasons last month to nearly double its online tuition , and another noting that some colleges are in a race to lower tuition. million by contrast with $1.2

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2019

MOOCs, shorthand for massive open online courses, have been widely critiqued for their miniscule completion rates. Industry reports and instructional designers alike typically report that only between 5 to 15 percent of students who start free open online courses end up earning a certificate. Use the power of peer pressure.

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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. Course Report published year-end data from edX and Coursera. Downsides of Openness?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Like much of edtech, research results can be ambiguous, with some saying it’s marginally better than conventional classroom teaching , while others report impressive results. The term MOOC was coined by others in 2008.) Now in its seventh year, MOOCs crossed the 100 million learner mark, recently hitting 101 million.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2022

edX was never the premier MOOC brand—that title belongs to Coursera. The flywheel aspect is that the more the strategy succeeds, the more revenue is made by institutional partners and by the company, leading to more free courses and registered learners.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2020

More than 70 efforts are underway around the world to use blockchain technology in education, and most set their sights on better connecting people with job opportunities, according to a new report published by the American Council on Education. Department of Education. These include: the costs of setting up ledger systems.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2019

The master’s degree market is also a hotbed of innovation, as some of the world’s top universities are now experimenting with MOOC-based degrees at substantially lower price points. News & World Report national rankings had any significant online degree presence. About 37 percent of all graduate education in the U.S.

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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. Without a University Involved.).

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ProfHacker

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Justin Reich and Mizuko (Mimi) Ito have recently published a report entitled From Good Intentions to Real Outcomes: Equity by Design in Learning Technologies. The report is available for download without monetary charge and without collection of your personal data. If you don’t care about equity in edtech.

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2022

But recent reports have speculated that the company could “bootstrap an online course ecosystem.” 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.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2017

Alexandra Pickett Pickett is not alone, in a study conducted in 2014 by Ithaka S+R at University System of Maryland , researchers found that when students took new MOOC courses, they expressed extreme dissatisfaction with the programs, saying they felt they learned less than their peers in traditional classes. Morgan is not alone.

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EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 7, 2018

According to a Google report , almost 80% people don’t exit their homes sans smartphones. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). MOOC is not a new concept in the e-learning industry. Many prestigious universities such as Harvard offers MOOC at minimal or no cost. Smartphones have become an essential part of our lives.

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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. Many of those papers report that students perform better in flipped settings compared to traditional lectures, or that there is little difference. Flipped learning tends to do no harm.”

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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.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2021

Coursera reported $293.5 Coursera reported that roughly half of its new degree students in 2020 were previously registered Coursera learners, and that its average student acquisition cost was under $2,000, which is lower than the industry standard, according to Gallagher. In terms of sheer numbers, Coursera has raced ahead of the pack.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2020

A national working group that I was recently a part of—led by non-profit Opportunity America—recently produced a report that aptly characterized the community college as “ the indispensable institution.” Local and highly affordable, community colleges are engines of economic opportunity.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

And it was just a few years after the launch of the first MOOCs, putting the online higher ed market newly in the spotlight as it continued its steady growth. But that’s not the same as saying that employers no longer value college credentials, despite overhyped media reports that employers are “throwing out” degrees.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2020

For me, it was pretty easy to imagine how I’d supplement the online pre-recorded lectures from my MOOC with discussions with Wesleyan students on the Zoom platform. My colleagues report similarly positive experiences. Although we record these discussions, almost all of my 50+ undergraduates attend class together.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The course will cost $49 per month and will be hosted on Coursera, a platform for massive open online courses, or MOOCs, that Ng co-founded in 2012. (He offers through Coursera, which Ng teaches, have had wide appeal on the MOOC website. In June, EdSurge reported that three Coursera’s top 10 most popular courses were taught by him.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2018

MOOCs are No Longer Massive. Once upon a time, free online courses known as MOOCs made national headlines. So we talked with Dhawal Shah, founder and CEO of Class Central, who has been tracking MOOCs closely ever since he was a student in one of those first Stanford open courses, about how MOOCs have evolved.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

according to a new report published Wednesday. Perhaps to another nonprofit, the National Skills Coalition, which published its own report this week focused explicitly on establishing a definition of what counts as a quality non-degree credential. They’re still counting. So far, the Washington, D.C.-based

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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

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Plus: printers, smart speakers and privacy (oh my!) — all in this Edtech Reports Recap. So declares the newest forward-looking publication from the higher-ed information technology association EDUCAUSE, “ 2021 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report: Information Security Edition.” But this Horizon Report represents a couple of firsts.

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The Thinking Stick

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

According to a Project Tomorrow Report. But student-teachers report that their tech training focuses only on simple management tools. At the same time, the report concludes that those who have the biggest influence on new teachers — veteran educators – don’t always embrace new ways of using technology to engage students.

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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. GSV Ventures launched in 2016 with a $97 million fund, and has since invested in 65 edtech companies. Several past GSV investments have turned into a big payday. billion in 2017.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The effort, run by the nonprofit Credential Engine, marked its half-decade this week with a virtual convening to describe its latest research report and a reception in Washington, D.C., Of the four categories of providers, non-academic entities offer the largest count of credentials, according to the report.

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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. Despite the sobering findings, 2017 offered some notable bright spots.

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The Thinking Stick

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

New research out of MIT, Tsinghua University, and Harvard came to the conclusion that online learning…specifically MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) do work… or at least work as good as traditional teaching. What’s even more interesting is in part because of this research, MIT released their Future of Education Report.

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The PL2C Blog

AUGUST 24, 2014

In the spring of 2014, a team from the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation launched to first rendition of a Massive Open Online Course for Educators (MOOC-Ed), titled Coaching Digital Learning | Cultivating a Culture of Change (CDL). 73% of the MOOC-Ed participants indicated the Twitter Chats as Valuable or higher.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2020

Major employers are embracing libraries of video and MOOC courses, tuition-assistance programs for online courses, and bootcamps focused on tech skills (which have themselves moved online). It seems certain that more professional learning will happen outside of traditional institutions and campuses – especially if colleges fail to adapt.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 18, 2016

I mean, if Harvard can teach its most popular MOOC in VR , then there has to be a way for LMS vendors to support these type of classes in their products as well. Most LMSs offer some sort of analytics and reports. That would definitely make a boring task like running reports a lot more fun. Seems complicated right?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Working professionals have vastly different needs than those of the traditional student," said Nelson Baker, dean of professional education at Georgia Tech in an American Council of Education report last month, acknowledging that college leaders are uneasy over the inability of conventional higher ed to respond effectively to fierce market forces.

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