Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

With authoring software, instructional designers can steer online students through a mixtape of digital content—videos, graphs, weblinks, PDFs, drag-and-drop activities, PowerPoint slides, quizzes, survey tools and so on. The term MOOC was coined by others in 2008.) MOOC critics say that streaming lectures is not terribly innovative.

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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. According to a new national survey of C-suite executives that we recently conducted, 70 percent said that U.S.

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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

JUNE 17, 2020

The study, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences, was meant to show that small behavioral interventions, like asking students in a pre-course survey to describe when and how they planned to fit the required course work into their lives, would significantly improve completion rates in large online classes.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 16, 2020

In a survey of 1,000 long-time high school teachers, 73% say their classrooms use laptops and tablets daily. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are also excellent resources, offering free classes from world-renowned universities. Students use laptops, tablets, and myriad software to complete in-class work and at-home assignments.

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Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2021

In a wide-ranging survey of about a thousand students and instructors, merely eight percent of those online during the crisis say their experience was very effective. The impulse—to mimic conventional classrooms online as closely as possible—was followed earlier by MOOCs, massive online learning courses. Online learning in the U.S.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2020

In a 2018 survey of hiring leaders , we found that online pre-hire assessment was the single most likely “disruptor” of the reliance on degrees in hiring, followed by simulation-based hiring. 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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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

JULY 30, 2018

He specifically faults measures such as the National Student Survey , a satisfaction poll administered to undergraduates during their final year of study in colleges throughout England, Wales and Northern Ireland. His work focuses on British universities, where he says McDonaldization has taken hold more firmly than in the U.S.

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2017

You also pointed out that MOOCs don’t receive much buzz today as three years ago. The MOOC moment happened, and what it really just did is give legitimate cover for the less-prestigious institutions to invest in online education. So do you think MOOCs paved the way for the online programs that we’re seeing more and more of?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2020

In a national survey , we found that providing academic credit for experience and on-the-job learning was among employers’ top priorities for colleges and universities, alongside other work-integrated learning themes such industry validation and including real-world projects in the curriculum.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

Also note, the point of this post isn’t to showcase how innovative higher education is but rather to point out innovations that are out there as a kind of survey while also hopefully helping pollinate the possibility of innovation in the upper end of the field and ‘industry’ of education. Open Curriculum.

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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

APRIL 16, 2019

When you look at the data—and we still need better data—studies show 80 percent of the people pursuing [bootcamps and MOOC]s already have a bachelor's degree. So the innovation is not happening in undergrad? It's the same graduate degree from the same institution, and it might be a third of the cost.

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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. Download the edWeb 2022 Teacher Professional Learning Survey. The EdTech Awards for 2022 were just announced, and edWeb has won the award for Professional Development Learning Solution out of a field of 20 Finalists.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Credential Engine is surveying the landscape first, trying to develop a comprehensive dataset before coming to any particular conclusions. “We But the studies differ in their approaches to analyzing the myriad options.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 29, 2019

Fill out this five-minute survey , and you can enter to win a $100 Amazon gift card. He made the move to his new phase of scholarly life during a rush of enthusiasm for so-called MOOCs, Massive Open Online Courses, that big-name colleges were starting to offer low-cost higher education to a wider audience. We want to hear from you!

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Wired Campus

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

The percentage of institutions offering a MOOC seems to be leveling off, at around 14 percent, while suspicions persist that MOOCs will not generate money or reduce costs for universities—and are not, in fact, sustainable. Back then, 28 percent of respondents believed MOOCs were sustainable, while 26 percent thought they were not.

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Wired Campus

APRIL 2, 2015

A study by the two universities has found that teachers are enrolling in their MOOCs in high numbers. The study examines data from some one million MOOC students who enrolled in courses at edX, the nonprofit learning platform started by Harvard and MIT. Teachers enroll in MOOCs for a number of reasons, he says.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 25, 2016

More than 97 percent of surveyed participants who earned the first micro-credential in one of our our Learning Differences stacks indicated that they wanted to earn another one, demonstrating that the more people learn about micro-credentials, the more interested they become.

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Edsurge

JUNE 22, 2017

In national surveys of prospective adult students that we have conducted regularly at Northeastern University over recent years, we have consistently found that 60 percent of students prefer a blended or hybrid learning experience. Similarly, the U.S.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

Check out the list of global MOOC platforms curated by Class Central, but realize there are entirely different ecosystems of platforms that specialize in corporate training or adaptive learning. Pore through the feedback they submit on surveys. Start with the “big four” that most people have heard of: Coursera, Udacity, Udemy, and EdX.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Certainly in Britain, [in] the student satisfaction surveys that students all fill in, they're all quite happy. I have seen Kristen give the example of Amherst College, when they were considering whether to experiment with MOOCs in the early days of that trend, and they were going to join edX. The students are quite happy.”

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The PL2C Blog

AUGUST 24, 2014

Survey often. More About the Coaching Digital Learning MOOC-Ed. This free, six week MOOC-Ed course allows participants to learn along with their colleagues on a global scale to enhance digital learning content knowledge and further develop coaching strategies. The best thing you can do as a coach is to listen.

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Wired Campus

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

When Coursera, Udacity, and edX started up within four months of one another, in 2012, The New York Times declared it the year of the MOOC. A report released this week draws on a survey of Coursera students to look at their motivations and what kinds of educational and career results they are seeing. “Our

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 27, 2016

Nearly 60 percent of 589 preK-12 educators surveyed enrolled in professional courses online, according to a study by the Educational Technology Industry Network, a division of the Software & Information Industry Network. See also: Research Update: K-12 Teachers Turning to MOOCs for Professional Development.

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MindShift

APRIL 25, 2016

Some studies found that about five percent of those enrolled in massive open online courses (known as MOOCs) completed the course. And those who took the courses tended to be more educated already – 70 percent of survey respondents had bachelors degrees and 39 percent identified as teachers or former teachers.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Joining the MOOC party As formal college education becomes more unaffordable, online education has become a popular alternative or supplement. And the business is growing: Babson Survey Research Group’s 2015 Survey of Online Learning shows the number of higher education students taking at least one distance education course in 2015 grew by 3.9

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2017

These days students can always take Shakespeare or other courses later, once they’re settled in their careers, thanks to free MOOCs, he says. “The bachelor’s degree as a one-size-fits all no longer works.” What we all need to acknowledge is that we’re now in an era of lifelong learning,” he adds. For now, she says that answer is “unclear.”

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TeacherCast

JANUARY 1, 2016

For instance, one recent survey reported that 75% of the responding K-12 educators in the United States assessed their student’s access to technology in the classroom as “good” or “great” Roughly four out of five teachers planned to utilize these types of resources more extensively during the 2016 academic year.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

Overall, the rise of online learning — from MOOCs to Khan Academy — makes “blended” learning that combines computer and live instruction feel normal to students. But the surveys put parent satisfaction in the 88th to 96th percentiles. In Vasal’s class, students take a test; he instantly sees their errors and can explain their mistakes.

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Wired Campus

JUNE 16, 2015

Most students in free online courses don’t spend as much time doing classwork as do traditional college students, but they do log a significant number of hours, according to a new survey of more than 4,500 MOOC students by Class Central, a website that reviews free courses. stars higher, on average, than free courses were.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2016

In the Deloitte survey respondents identified a variety of learning tools that they felt can contribute to their development within their company, these included external certificates at 32 percent, MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) at 18 percent and external, self-directed learning powered by social media at 14 percent.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Without imposed schedules, proximity to peers, or physical classrooms, even the best-intentioned students never make it through a MOOC or fail to reengage with the educational app they downloaded. Yet, some of these factors are at odds with the way people develop productive, habit-forming behaviors.

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EdTechSandyK

MARCH 4, 2013

Small start ups and giant MOOCS. Important to get feedback from students through surveys to assess quality of teaching and content. Survey students to see if they feel they have improved in their understanding or have gotten other benefits such as job advancement or career change. K-12 will follow by 2019. Re-engagement is huge.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

GROWING PAINS: In a recent national survey , 97 percent of teachers agreed that students should have a growth mindset. SLACK ON: MOOCs get knocked for lacking the intimate discussions and organic student interactions that accompany college classes IRL. Yet only 50 percent said they have adequate solutions and strategies to help.

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Mistakengoal.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Friedman and the rest of the uncritical MOOC cheerleaders) or dystopian views. higher education are the materials produced by EDUCAUSE , especially their annual survey of students and information technology and their public summaries of information collected in their Core Data Service.

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