Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 6, 2020

The main takeaway: Learning how to learn is the single most important skill that our students will need to master if they hope to participate meaningfully in the fast-paced, technology-driven workplace of the future. Teach Students to Embrace Technology and Remote Learning. Tech ed resources – online classes .

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Meanwhile, Coursera is opening up its technology platform to any college to use for free to deliver course materials on their own campuses. That means that colleges could use the Coursera software as an alternative to their learning-management system. Besides, he adds, selling courseware is more lucrative than just software.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2019

The department is hiring for more than a dozen new designer, developer and strategy jobs, including for an associate director for media technology and innovation. The University of Michigan office of academic innovation opened more than five years ago to serve as an in-house technology incubator, consulting firm and design lab.

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EdTech4Beginners

APRIL 2, 2017

The amount of new acronyms in the educational technology world is staggering… and often overwhelming for educators. BYOT – Bring Your Own Technology. CREATE – Collaboartion, Resources, Educate, Apps, Technology, Enriching. ICT – Information Communications Technology. STEAM – Science, Technology, Art, Engineering, Maths.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

More than two decades ago, when I was hired at Stevens Institute of Technology, as dean of web-based distance learning—a quaint title for what is now known as online learning—few tools were available to help faculty migrate their on-campus courses online. Most authoring software also integrates assessment tools, testing learning outcomes.

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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. 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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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2018

Unfortunately, most massive open online course (MOOC) platforms still feel like drafty lecture halls instead of intimate seminar rooms. I think we’ve seen this reemergence—unintentionally—in the form of MOOCs. I typically build MOOCs, but this spring, I designed an online program for a cohort of 16 nonprofit leaders.

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2019

The question is a philosophical one, as some people argue that a theory called Baumol’s cost disease, which states that some labor-intensive sectors do not reduce labor costs even when new technology comes in, explains why the cost of college keeps going up faster than other areas of the economy.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Coursera was a pioneer in offering MOOCs, or massive open online courses, in partnership with hundreds of top colleges. While attention around MOOCs has died down, the company seems to have found a business model for free courses with something it calls Specializations.

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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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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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Digital Promise

JANUARY 12, 2015

But that distance, though real, is also a metaphor for some of the other impediments to education that the college seeks to mitigate through technology. One sees this in PTCC’s recent pilot program for students in the Advanced Manufacturing Technology program (which Edwin is part of).

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EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 7, 2018

The new E-learning technologies keep on evolving, and a lot of companies are investing in it to yield efficient employees. 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.

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Edsurge

JULY 17, 2020

On Wednesday, CampusLogic, a provider of financial aid software to colleges and universities, raised $120 million. education technology company in 2020. Founded in 2012 by two Stanford University professors, Coursera was one of a trio of startups that spearheaded the hype around massive open online courses, or MOOCs, for short.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

We could participate in a number of free Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs), including over a dozen on Chinese History from Harvard University. Even more exciting than what is available for us to peruse and consume, however, would be the technologies that allow us to interact, create, make, and do things together.

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Edsurge

JUNE 22, 2017

Amazon has become one of the most valuable companies in the world—with a current market value of $475 billion —based on its domination of e-commerce (holding an astounding 50 percent share of all online retail sales); its leadership in the cloud computing business ; and the strength of its software algorithms. A more Amazon-like experience.

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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. And that has immense societal benefits.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2019

Part of the problem, he says, is technology. In some cases the very technologies that were intended to improve writing, like automatic-essay grading software, have backfired by encouraging a kind of paint-by-numbers approach to writing. In your book you criticize many technology innovations around the teaching of writing.

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ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 1, 2019

Incorporating technology in the classroom has paved the way for a myriad of innovative methods and practices that are aimed at improving upon teaching structures of the past. Blended learning enables me to effectively bring technology into the classroom. Children may not have a ccess to technology and/or the internet.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

In recent years, Simon’s ideas have found new traction, thanks to new computing technologies that would have seemed alien in the ’60s. If few students answer the question correctly, the software can flag the professor, or the textbook author, to consider revising the content to make it clearer. Acuitus’s earliest client was the U.S.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Philipp Schmidt began thinking about the potential for blockchain in higher education long before the technology became a buzzword. Schmidt, who is the director of learning innovation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab, began issuing non-academic credentials for his team around 2013.

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Hack Education

APRIL 30, 2020

I was a guest speaker in the MA in Elearning class at Cork Institute of Technology this morning. I don't want to come off today as making broad sweeping statements about all of education everywhere when I'm very much talking about the education system in the US and the education technology industry in the US. And that's surveillance.

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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

AUGUST 7, 2019

education technology industry appears on track to surpass the amount of investor funding tallied in recent years. educational technology companies whose primary purpose is to support educators and learners across preK-12 and postsecondary education. In this analysis, EdSurge counts all venture investments in U.S. million and 2.5

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2018

But the technology itself was not my concern. What did bother me, however, was how many of these technologies were only adding a digital component to the same learning practices teachers used when I was a student there just a few years ago. (As Ask any first year college student studying education, and their face will light up.

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TeacherCast

JANUARY 1, 2016

Widespread public interest surrounds new technologies in the classroom. With many communities anxious to enhance local school systems and increase opportunities for students, teachers and pupils, 2016 appears poised to witness a lot of exciting new developments in the world of education technology. Ubiquitous Computers on The Horizon.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

When I first entered the virtual university a couple of decades ago as dean of online learning at Stevens Institute of Technology, I imagined, apart from instruction, that online and on campus in most respects would be pretty much the same. Surprisingly, just over twenty years later, things didn’t turn out that way in practice.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Is education technology investing back on track? educational technology companies whose primary purpose is to improve outcomes for teachers and learners across K-12 and higher education. Education technology investments appear to be on a similar trajectory. Are investors still eager to put their money in education startups?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

“Before, our only options were to send people to a training, sit in a course, and learn the material–whether from a university or a week-long certification,” says Shelly Holt, vice president of global learning for SAP, a leading enterprise-software company. According to the Association for Talent Development, U.S.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2018

The product, which was initially a computer science MOOC, was developed as a skunkworks project within Amplify and spun out as an independent company in July 2015. Edhesive traces its origins to Amplify, the New York City-based digital education company that was once owned by News Corporation.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

This is the second part of my much-abbreviated look at the stories that were told about education technology in 2018 – and in this case, the people who funded the storytellers. I assumed that they looked to see if the company could do what it promised – financially, technologically. The technology did not work.

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Learning with 'e's

APRIL 6, 2013

A short article appearing in the Independent newspaper on April 6th highlights the tensions brewing because of the use of marking software. What he doesn''t say is that it''s an essential part of the management of MOOC s, especially if they are regularly enrolling upwards of 100,000 students for each course. Unported License.

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Learning with 'e's

APRIL 7, 2014

Most of us by now are familiar with open learning , and many could describe their use of open source software such as Moodle, Mahara, Linux and Open Office. Many can also articulate what open educational resources look like, and have knowledge of Massive Open Online Courses otherwise known as MOOCs. Unported License.

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ViewSonic Education

DECEMBER 27, 2018

After all, with the way technology has become interwoven into our daily lives, it only makes sense that our educational structure adapts to this shift to leverage the power of technology in the classroom. Children may not have access to technology. Well, you’re not alone. Teachers may have to create additional resources.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2019

Forbes noted that the giant online program management (OPM) company called 2U invested $5 to $10 million in software and marketing to launch an online MBA at the University of North Carolina. Most colleges already buy learning-management software for its on-campus students that can serve as the virtual campus infrastructure.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 5, 2021

Not all asynchronous learning is the same and new trends emerge as new technology emerges–and more importantly, our collective definitions and vision for what learning is and might be change with them. Asynchronous learning generally uses technology that enables students to access course materials on their own.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) Are any education technologies, for that matter? It’s not even an LMS, quite frankly – something Edmodo tried to use as a selling point for a little while. They’re amazing.

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