The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Elizabeth Iwaszewicz talks about five strategies for designated and integrated English Language Development (ELD). Today’s Sponsor: Metaverse is a powerful augmented reality app. They have a new classroom management tool called Collections.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

In my book, Hacking Digital Learning Strategies with EdTech Missions , I introduce mission minded learning to help students reflect on the power they have to make a positive difference with their use of technology. Join my free online course where we work on digital learning missions, The Goal-Minded Teacher MOOC ( #EduGoalsMOOC ).

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Neo LMS

MAY 21, 2020

The Open Universities were already a reality in the 20th century, and with the extensive use of the internet, the MOOC phenomenon has grown exponentially over the last decade. Read more: 6 Building blocks for a successful edtech strategy. It might help teachers change their mind and (hopefully) embrace online education.

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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. A Strategy Duel The two entities have also taken very different approaches in terms of strategy, says Hill.

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Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2023

Khurana argues that the strategy is to make connections between existing players and colleges, and to bring in the expertise and research experience of professors at MIT and Harvard. The founding came at the height of public excitement around free online courses known as MOOCs, which stands for Massive Open Online Courses.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 13, 2017

The Fellows learn how to: Assess student learning differences in the classroom and implement responsive instructional strategies premised on UDL; Use technological tools and flexible instructional media to provide a rich and adaptive learning environment; and. Redesign physical spaces in schools and classrooms to reflect the UDL framework.

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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. Last year one of its courses ranked fifth in total enrollments of all MOOCs offered on Coursera, a MOOC platform.

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EdTech4Beginners

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

By analyzing student performance data and learning patterns, AI algorithms can identify areas of strength and weakness, recommend targeted resources, and adapt instructional strategies to suit diverse learner profiles.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Based on each student’s actions, when a student gets stuck, the system automatically suggests strategies on how to get out of it and proceed to mastery. 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

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

The authors are Joshua Kim, Dartmouth College’s director of online programs and strategy, and Eddie Maloney, executive director of Georgetown University’s Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship. The hype around MOOCs and other disruptive tech at colleges has faded. Learn More at www.destinationsacademy.com/school-districts.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 11, 2017

In an effort to bring this latest learning science to educators, the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation has connected its Learning Differences MOOC-Ed with Digital Promise Global’s Learner Positioning System to create a micro-credential stack focusing on learner diversity and students’ learning differences. Kayla, will you go next?”

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Edsurge

JULY 23, 2021

So it’s worth illuminating various cases for different pricing strategies for online tuition. It wasn’t until providers of so-called MOOCs—massive open online courses—entered into online partnership with high-ranking colleges about a decade ago that serious discounting took off.

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2019

MOOCs, shorthand for massive open online courses, have been widely critiqued for their miniscule completion rates. This does not necessarily make MOOCs a failure. That’s a far cry from five years ago, when only 5 percent of the students were finishing the MOOCs I was designing. Use the power of peer pressure.

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2020

In my 2014 book “ MOOCS Essentials ,” I reflected on each aspect of the residential learning process and how developers of massive open online courses were trying to replicate those experiences virtually, or come up with ways to keep students engaged without direct teacher-student interaction.

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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. Today this has changed significantly—and not only due to MOOCs, which were an important catalyst. About 37 percent of all graduate education in the U.S.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2020

If we want to make sure community colleges can meet the rising demand, we need to not only devise new policies and funding mechanisms, but we also need to re-envision the strategies and infrastructure of community colleges so that they can play a powerful role in the economic recovery. Better state-level coordination could also help.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

In this video, Constance Seibert shares how the Learning Differences MOOC-Ed hosted by the Friday Institute helped her better understand the different ways her students learn. Constance reflects on the fact that all students can learn, and she shares some strategies and activities that helped her better understand this.

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EdTech4Beginners

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The appearance of massive open online courses (MOOCs) mean that it’s possible to study film-making online among other niche topics. As long as education continues to consume technology and spit out solutions, we should welcome the introduction of all technology; VLEs, MOOCs, smart devices, and further student inclusion.

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Mark Smithers

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Thanks to Kate Bowles ( @KateMfD ) for sending me a link to an open Coursesites web site (free registration) that has been created for the MOOC discussion at the forthcoming Universities Australia 2014 conference. There are six questions in the discussion area; these are: What have been the most significant impacts of MOOCs?

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EdTech4Beginners

APRIL 2, 2017

BLearning – Blended Learning (using a range of multimedia and strategies). MOOC – Massively Open Online Course (an online course which has video lectures, problem solving activities, texts and an online community of fellow learners). API – Application Programming Interface. AUP – Acceptable Use Policy. BYOD – Bring Your Own Device.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 8, 2016

The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation at North Carolina State University recently scaled access to professional learning content for educators by taking advantage of the Massive Open Online Courses for Educators (MOOC-Eds) format. There are people literally from the other side of the world in our MOOC-Eds.

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2022

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. Meta’s offering appears to be more tied to live events, though.

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Linways Technologies

APRIL 28, 2020

He spoke on assessment strategies in the Outcome-Based Education (OBE) framework. MOOCs, rubrics, open-ended questions, open-book examinations, etc. The post An overview of Outcome-Based Assessment strategies by Dr. Neelakantan P. The next presentation to follow up was hosted by Dr. Neelakantan PC.

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eSchool News

JULY 22, 2024

If a student had an interest in learning about something, and we didn’t have a teacher qualified to teach that or who had experience teaching it, we were allowing students to self-design programs of study around an area of interest through a MOOC or Coursera. We had some experience with online learning.” Then came the pandemic. “We

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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. That’s not at all meant to suggest that colleges’ strategies, offerings and value are perfect, however.

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EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 7, 2018

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. MOOC also offers group collaboration and feedback through online evaluation. However, some courses are chargeable.

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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. He left the company in 2014.) Several of the courses Deeplearning.ai

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Edsurge

MAY 31, 2022

Lastly, you describe your edtech investing strategy as solution-focused. Right now, actually, I’m thinking about how we can improve completion rates for MOOCs and online courses. The most common solution I’ve seen recently is either building cohort-based courses from scratch, or at the very least recreating a cohort for a MOOC.

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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

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. These days the professor considers herself an advocate of “the non-video school of MOOCs.”

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2017

If 2012 was “ The Year of the MOOC ”—massive open online courses, usually offered for free—2017 could be “The Year of the Microcredential.” EdX, the nonprofit founded by Harvard University and MIT to offer MOOCs, now lists 40 “MicroMasters” programs from 24 colleges and universities around the world.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2021

One key advantage that Coursera may have is its sizable user base of 77 million learners, says Sean Gallagher, founder and executive director of Northeastern University's Center for the Future of Higher Education and Talent Strategy. In terms of sheer numbers, Coursera has raced ahead of the pack.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2020

In a tight economy, many major employers are launching or expanding “ education as benefit ” strategies to retain and develop their workforces. Recently, Coursera announced a modular MOOC-based bachelor’s degree with the University of North Texas, and edX is experimenting with “ MicroBachelors ” programs as pathways to degrees.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2020

At high-level strategy sessions at conference tables in president’s and provost’s offices at colleges across the country, academic leaders are not commonly arguing over the pedagogical merits of constructivist theories, but are anxiously calculating how to go online without going under.

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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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Teacher Reboot Camp

MARCH 10, 2018

Find strategies for specific behaviors at PBISWorld. How to Become an Outstanding Teacher ! link] by Marisa Constantinides. Find a list of recommended parent engagement web tools here. Parent Involvement or Parent Engagement? Apps and Websites for Improving Parent-Teacher Communication from Common Sense Education.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

And in the past ten years these colleges have been active in offering so-called MOOCs, or massive open online courses, which are free or low-cost courses, usually for no official credit. Joshua Kim, director of online programs and strategy at Dartmouth’s Center for the Advancement of Learning, calls Penn an outlier.

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