Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Could the rise in MOOC-based and other certificates affect how traditional college degree paths are designed? Many #DLNchat-ters define them as MOOC providers including edX and Coursera and bootcamps such as General Assembly and Kenzie Academy. and a discrete focus on outcomes, including skills-related outcomes.

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Linways Technologies

APRIL 22, 2020

Data-Driven Results As an institution, the way you treat education and manage it is different from MOOCs or short-term online courses. Tools For Testing And Assessment. So whatever platform you choose must be able to hold up during assessments. It’s not an instructor-focused show. This is where most solutions fall apart.

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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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Linways Technologies

MARCH 31, 2020

This sets institutional education apart from the MOOCs, or online course delivery tools. What are the different Assessment Tools available in Linways? The term “assessment” often broadly defined because it needs to include any outcome or goal in any activity or discipline that can be a part of a feedback process.

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ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 1, 2019

In order to reduce the amount of new content a teacher needs to make, YouTube videos, MOOC s, multiple choice questions and web-based resources can be combined. It is more than just working with a computer on self-assessed activities. These need to be carefully selected and modified to ensure they are appropriate for pupils.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

But it may be enough to know the report exists and can be freely downloaded and doom-scrolled to assess the thinking of dozens of experts. SHEEO says these records are tied to how states analyze student progress, completions and outcomes. State Higher Education Executive Officers Association: ” Strong Foundations.”

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2018

Sean Gallagher: I would put the microcredentialing trend as a major sub-theme within a broader conversation about job outcomes and competency-based education. We've been doing that for the last 40 years—with Prior Learning Assessment and with ACE credit recommendations. Could you talk a little bit about that tension?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). A glimpse : “In China ’s Silicon Valley, Edtech Starts at the ‘MOOC Times Building’ ” Via Class Central : “By The Numbers: MOOCs in 2018.” Via Edsurge : “ GlassLab Set Out to Prove Games Could Assess Learning.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Well-funded MOOC providers Coursera, Udacity and EdX have evolved their business models to focus squarely on corporate learning and serving professionals seeking credentials. In other words, we’re leaders in understanding and structuring curriculum, pedagogy, outcomes, competencies and the science of learning.

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Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

The answer has been “yes” for some years, and I’m not talking about MOOCs or University of Phoenix. Also occuring this year was an outside assessment of the project , conducted by Ithaka S&R. Students had positive learning outcomes in these courses, and faculty and peer assessors ranked student outcomes favorably.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Khan, MOOCs, boot camps, career academies, even what is seen as enrollment “swirl” in community college courses reflect the demand for just-in-time, just-enough learning, often focused on achieving specific competencies. (For This is backward design, starting with a focus on defining the desired learning outcomes.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Bold claims have been made in the past decade about personalized learning, automated assessments and massive open online courses (MOOCs). He jokingly sums up the learning outcomes of MOOCs with a simplified observation he calls Reich’s Law: .

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 16, 2014

I believe him, because I see similar outcomes wherever I travel, in schools, colleges and universities around the world. The student is then left to think and reflect on the knowledge they have ''received'' and eventually, is assessed on how well they can remember, apply and evaluate this knowledge. Unported License.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2021

But the platform is helping community colleges think through how to use prior-learning assessments to award credit if users do want it, even when the course isn’t technically credit-bearing. Practically speaking, we’re working with the non-credit side mostly because they can respond most rapidly to industry,” Alssid says.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Starting out with immovable biases undermines the integrity of the process and will inevitably lead to a flawed outcome. To their credit, both of the leading commercial MOOCs—Udacity and Coursera—have undertaken significant pivots to their initially flawed business models. Time will tell whether these changes were too little, too late.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Despite predictions that badges would be the “ new credential ” and that we were looking at a “ Future Full of Badges ,” it’s not clear that digital badges have provided us with a really meaningful way to assess skills or expertise. MOOCs are, no surprise, their own entry on this long list of awfulness. Wedge Tailed Green Pigeon.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Learnmetrics : Chicago-based Learnmetrics offers districts what CEO Julian Miller likes to call a “GPS” for educators’ and administrators’ goals and outcomes. million assessments, and is on track to hit 4 million in 2017. Based in Honolulu, Hawaii, Comprend.io prices on a by-school or company basis. It’s been used for more than 2.5

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EdTechTeam

NOVEMBER 4, 2017

For successful outcomes, plan teacher PD sessions avoiding holidays, weekends, extended school days and reporting/ assessment cycles. In this age of digital transformation, educators may choose from the plethora of online MOOCs which are a convenient and no-travel option.

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Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

” Here DeMillo changes tack from neuroscience (chapter 3) and returns to technology, but not very much to MOOCs. In fact, the frequency of treating alone accounts for most of the variation in learning outcomes…” Plug this into the digital world, and. That’s not where the chapter begins.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2016

Students like Battushig who used free online courses to achieve world-class education motivated players like Coursera and the State Department to launch initiatives like Learning Hubs and MOOC camps from Vietnam to Bolivia. The question is: are there viable edtech opportunities in so-called bottom-of-the-pyramid markets?

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Is it the vast corpus of data that the company has amassed — decades of essays and theses and Wikipedia entries that it uses to assess student work? Is it the algorithms — the pattern-matching capabilities that purport to identify plagiarism? Every student is guilty until the algorithm proves her innocence.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

We discuss their goals and what they are working on, and if they had an assessment we might talk about that,” she said. Overall, the rise of online learning — from MOOCs to Khan Academy — makes “blended” learning that combines computer and live instruction feel normal to students. They set new goals, including nonacademic ones.

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 25, 2016

Indeed, Anya stated they educators are “fumbling” on qualitative assessment so far. Anya offered an anecdote, that some district-level benchmark tests are starting to get cut back by using software-based assessments. This works in a low-stakes settings, like a MOOC. Testing tools aren’t very good now.

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

What do you think the whole MOOC thing George Siemens and I and others was about? Needless to say, these students are not roaming autodidacts who, left to their own (digital) devices, will thrive and succeed as “free range learners” in a world of MOOCs. Is it the extensions we’ve made to the Open Assessments platform?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 17, 2014

Academy 10:00am DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER: Beyond the University: New MOOC Audiences and Providers - Leonard Waks , Professor Emeritus Educational Leadership Electronic Portfolios as Spaces for Students to Engage with Learning - Gina Marandino - Educational Technology Specialist Hit Learners with Music!

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ViewSonic Education

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Fortunately, there is a vast amount of content already available, such as YouTube videos, MOOCs, multiple choice questions and web-based resources. Outcomes from the activities can be shared by pupils from their own device using myViewBoard, or a selection of questions compiled using collaborative tools.

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Hack Education

APRIL 3, 2017

Turns out too that a lot of the education startups that have been promising “revolution” or hell even “improved outcomes” for the past few years have been selling snake oil. This is part of the push for MOOCs, we must be honest.). ” Despite raising some $87.5 So why take a full stack approach to education?

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Testing, Testing… “Big changes ahead for how California assesses school performance,” KPCC reports. ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). “ MOOCs no longer massive, still attract millions,” Class Central’s Dhawal Shah claims in a VentureBeat op-ed.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

The five projects are listed below, and each links to a project group on the conference site--please join one or more and then let us know how Lucy and I can help turn these into realities!

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Inside Higher Ed : “Analysis of Georgia Tech ’s MOOC-inspired online master’s in computer science suggests that institutions can successfully deliver high-quality, low-cost degrees to students at scale.” “Many are never the same.”

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Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

” The Whiteboard Advisors’ latest “Education Insider” report ( PDF ) is on assessment trends, higher education, and the presidential campaigns. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Because up ’til now, MOOCs were the most brilliant data mining app ever.).

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Hack Education

AUGUST 5, 2016

Dillon, the biology professor at the College of Charleston who resisted administrators’ requests that he update his syllabus with learning outcomes , is suing the South Carolina college and says he will retire.” ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). MOOCs, CAI, and now this.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Throughout the year, the Department of Education also took steps to strengthen the oversight of accreditors, adding requirements regarding data that they had to report to the government and to the public as well as pressuring accreditors to do more to improve “student outcomes” at the schools they monitored. Jobs for Grads.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

ABL pedagogy aims to enrich students’ academic experience and learning outcomes by connecting theory with practice, and concepts with methods, using data and insight they obtain through engagement with the larger world.” These taxonomies can be used to plan units, lessons, assessments, and other teaching and learning processes.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The latter group, which is more likely to be comprised of Black, Latino, and low-income students, performed better on writing assessments when writing with pencil and paper. ” The material involved MOOCs that it had produced with edX as well as videos posted to iTunes and YouTube. “ Free and open.”

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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.”) ”) It was certainly the outcome that investors were hoping for Edmodo , which raised $25 million in 2012, boasting that it had 15 million users. Remember Edmodo?

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Hack Education

JULY 14, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “The University of California, Los Angeles , is planning a major expansion in the online certificate and graduate degree markets that it hopes will reach as many as 15,000 students by early next decade,” Inside Higher Ed reports. .”

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