EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2018

When transitioning to a makerspace, the focus often shifts to the shiny tools (3D printers! If coding is to remain, we need to educate teachers on t he fundamental thinking behind these tools. Teachers can be inspired and gain confidence in how to use tools by seeing the impact a community makerspace can have.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Participants in my current free online course, The Goal-Minded Teacher MOOC ( #EduGoalsMOOC ), designed learning missions this past week to inspire their learners. The learning missions were designed with several free web tools, including Google Slides , Genial.ly , Buncee , Canva , Glogster , and Google Docs. Missions.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Usman Khaliq was an engineering student in northeastern Pakistan when he took his first MOOC. complete multiple MOOCs. complete multiple MOOCs. MOOCs were a vetting mechanism for Usman, allowing both his talent and grit to rise to attention and connecting him to an opportunity halfway around the world.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2019

We don’t have all the features of an LMS but what we do have is all the tools to create cutting-edge interactive learning experiences.” Phil Hill, a consultant who has long followed the edtech industry, doubts that colleges will dump their existing learning management systems to use Coursera’s free tools. Will Colleges Buy It?

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 27, 2022

Read more: Methods and tools to develop future-ready skills. Making more use of technology as a tool for learning and not as a distraction is also a skill they had to develop. Teachers become coaches and offer guidance, while students become autonomous learners with voice and choice.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 22, 2021

An often-cited study on MOOCs says videos should be around six minutes long. However, this rule has been challenged by subsequent evidence such as this Stanford study arguing that MOOC videos are different than formal education videos. After that, most students gradually lose interest.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

They have a new classroom management tool called Collections. 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.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2019

In parallel, we’ve developed a team that builds tools that enhance the residential learning environment. Staff members work with student fellows and faculty to design curricula, dive into education data and develop personalized-learning tools. We develop a more agile and iterative model for our constituents on campus.”

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Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2023

That might include doing research, building tech tools or helping manage organizations. The founding came at the height of public excitement around free online courses known as MOOCs, which stands for Massive Open Online Courses. In fact, a New York Times piece declared 2012 “ the year of the MOOC.”

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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

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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2020

No, but some virtual tools will stick around. 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. Tools in liberal education may be changing, but its essential mission — its core task of empowering the whole person — is not.

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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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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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EdTech4Beginners

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

VLEs are fast becoming an irreplaceable tool for teachers and we’ve yet to see their full potential. The appearance of massive open online courses (MOOCs) mean that it’s possible to study film-making online among other niche topics. The future of education is increased inter-connectivity. New Learning Platforms. Open Ended Education.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 16, 2020

Education technology tools and solutions are becoming commonplace and widespread. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are also excellent resources, offering free classes from world-renowned universities. Hands-on experience gives teachers the tools necessary to enhance student curriculums. Sample popular edtech tools.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2021

A decade ago, large-scale online courses known as MOOCs were all the rage, touted as a possible alternative to traditional college and celebrated in the popular press. Talbert had taken MOOCs back when they first started and was unimpressed. How was what you saw? The content and the product was really, really polished.

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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.

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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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EdTech4Beginners

APRIL 2, 2017

CMS – Content Management System (a tool to build websites and apps). MOOC – Massively Open Online Course (an online course which has video lectures, problem solving activities, texts and an online community of fellow learners). BYOL – Bring Your Own Learning. BYOT – Bring Your Own Technology. CIPA – Children’s Internet Protection Act.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 11, 2017

One of online education’s earliest attempts to solve this issue on a global scale came in the form of MOOCs (massive open online courses). This attempt failed to offer a viable solution, as MOOCs mostly provide prerecorded lectures, which prevent any interactions or feedback between the students and teachers.

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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. Additionally, we could make our own sets related to local class topics and presentations using a friendly curation tool like Educlipper. . My class would be in YouTube heaven.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 11, 2017

We must use all the tools we have available to us and not expect them to fit into a mold or all behave exactly the same. “ We must meet our students exactly where they are with exactly the brains they have right now. ” – Dr. Gene R.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2020

The tool is designed especially to help first-generation and low-income students, who may struggle with college enrollment. The institution has hosted a national forum and virtual conference and produced a MOOC and a book exploring the potential uses of blockchain technology in the field of information systems.

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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

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. You need a backup plan.”.

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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

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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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2019

Its primary customer is the nonprofit university called Minerva Schools at KGI, which aims to offer a selective liberal-arts undergraduate education where classes are fully online, using video and interactive tools. Early MOOC experiments had more than 100,000 students per course.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2020

New study in @PNASNews on MOOC persistence- 2.5 The best work we do in edtech has a kind of tinker’s mindset to it,” he adds, meaning that teachers and developers make small changes to systems like learning-management systems and videoconferencing tools over time that gradually improve online learning.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2021

million Series A that will expand its range of intensive executive-level courses and digital learning tools. While at edX Porter created the Open edX project, which has served more than 55 million learners taking massive open online courses, or MOOCs. The Boston-based company today announced the close of a $7.5

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

In addition, the organization has announced a new platform to review technology tools and a framework for implementing edtech in the classroom. But South says this is not about competing with the big technology companies, and he stresses that it is certainly not another MOOC. That is not the school they live and work in,” says South.

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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. K-12 context, individual teacher’s choices about instructional materials are constrained by district and state policy anyway.

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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

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. As the conversation continued, Joosten discussed the importance of design in online course development, a primary finding in the scan.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

can’t just say, “Here’s a MOOC, or here’s an online degree, or a 6- to 12-week immersive bootcamp.”. We need better assessment tools and prior learning assessments to take any student and assess where they are: What capabilities, skill sets, and mindsets do they have? We have to do better.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MARCH 3, 2018

Recommended free web tools from the chat are Flipgrid , Seesaw , Buncee , GetKahoot and Spiral. Tools For Beginning English Language Learners [link]. We were inspired by two incredible edtech gurus who were our guest experts for the chat, Steve Wheeler ( @SteveWheeler ) and Larry Ferlazzo ( @LarryFerlazzo ). All-Time” Best 2.0

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