Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2019

The online university advertises its video-based online courses as active-learning seminars, so these class sizes are modeled after their counterparts at many traditional face-to-face colleges. Early MOOC experiments had more than 100,000 students per course. This is not an operation where one person does it. It takes a team."

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Edsurge

MARCH 14, 2023

She also teaches Learning How to Learn , one of the most popular Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs. Right now we've just been disseminating information via seminars and things like that, but we have some working groups that are international, and a group that just started that I'm very excited about ‘knowledge brokering.’

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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. ITEM: Over the past several years a group of small colleges, members of the Council of Independent Colleges ( CIC ), experimented with sharing upper-level humanities seminars with each other. Here are some examples.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2017

It’s part of a continued evolution of MOOCs, or Massive Open Online Courses. Serving the 300 million people expected to enter higher education in the next year with classroom sizes found in typical college seminars, he adds, is simply “not possible.”

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 12, 2015

The free half-day seminar is open to the public and will take place online via Blackboard Collaborate on April 30, 2015, from 12 p.m. The MOOC had a massive global reach, but “there is a need to continue to prepare for the emerging future,” stated Alman.

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Linways Technologies

JANUARY 6, 2023

To ensure that assessment methods match learning outcomes, a variety of assessment methods should be employed e.g., Quizzes, Seminars, discussions, term papers, open-ended problem-solving assignments, course/lab project rubrics, portfolios, providing Rubrics, etc.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 27, 2015

Talking with students and expecting them to respond meaningfully isn’t lecture–that’s accountable talk, which itself is close to a Socratic dialogue or Paideia seminar. Self-guided MOOC. Traditional MOOC. Paideia Seminar. Socratic Seminar. Face-to-Face Driver blended learning. Sync Teaching.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

SLACK ON: MOOCs get knocked for lacking the intimate discussions and organic student interactions that accompany college classes IRL. Her team used the online communication platform to lead an online seminar about an ambiguous and risky text.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” There’s more MOOC news in the “business of education” section below. Devonshire Investors has acquired MOOC startup NovoEd. .” Jon Marcus writes in Education Next about the future of for-profit higher ed. The Business of Job Training.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2016

It’s simple to talk in the abstract about badges and blockchains, software and scale, Moocs and their manifest destiny. Our self-assembled seminar now has inside jokes and latent debates. Since every conversation was student-driven, our differences drove the conversation. Two of our community will meet up in Berlin in the fall.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 31, 2015

Here''s the story: My invitation to present a research seminar for staff and post graduate students at the University of Antarctica , came out of the blue. The college has already invested heavily in correspondence courses, and is also gearing up to deliver its first MOOC later this year once they get their internet connection.

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Learning with 'e's

APRIL 8, 2015

It worked quite well, and we eventually, with the aid of Plymouth University , were able to access satellite technology to broadcast some of our seminars across the region. This was a way of opening up content and also opening up opportunities for wider participation. But what does openness in education mean to you?

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Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 29, 2015

There’s now a movement to teach humanities seminars online. And the MOOC numbers look like they’re rising. Unless the worm turns globally, I’d expect planet MOOC to keep growing in 2016. This rising tide could pause. Skepticism about the quality of online learning could migrate to the general population.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 16, 2013

There are eight conference strands covering a wide variety of timely topics, such as MOOCs, e-books, maker spaces, mobile services, embedded librarians, green libraries, doctoral student research, library and information center "tours," and more! We have 146 accepted conference sessions and ten keynote addresses.

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Hack Education

MAY 26, 2016

The entry point for students into Trump University was a free 90-minute seminar, which continued into a 3-day seminar that cost $1500. The $1500 seminars led in turn to the “Trump Gold Elite” package, which promised personal mentorship from instructors “handpicked by Trump.” What are MOOCs, for example?

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Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

A must-read on Trump University from Ars Technica : “Trump University and the art of the get-rich seminar.” ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Here’s The Chronicle headline from then : “Professor Leaves a MOOC in Mid-Course in Dispute Over Teaching.”)

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 17, 2016

Face-to-face instruction was the privilege of the 1%, while the middle class made do with distance learning, and everyone else had versions of MOOCs. Faculty research and teach the inequality problem across the curriculum, from sociology and economics to first-year seminars. Or maybe things take a darker turn… 4.

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 12, 2016

Q: Autumm Caines asked:”I’m getting ready to teach a 1st year seminar on digital citizenship. He criticized the allure of universal solutions and totalizing narratives (the LMS, the MOOC). Use open and free tools, then share out what you do. Is it too complex for me to ask first years to do domain of one’s own?”.

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 12, 2016

Q: Autumm Caines asked:”I’m getting ready to teach a 1st year seminar on digital citizenship. He criticized the allure of universal solutions and totalizing narratives (the LMS, the MOOC). Use open and free tools, then share out what you do. Is it too complex for me to ask first years to do domain of one’s own?”.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Trump University promised that the instructors for the real-estate and business seminars were “hand-picked” by Trump. Funnily enough, many of the very publications who consistently made fun of the offerings from Trump University rarely offer any critical analysis of the structure or content of MOOCs or coding bootcamps.

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Mark Smithers

AUGUST 24, 2015

I was expected to lecture, give tutorials and maybe seminars or laboratories depending on the topic. It was only when the large MOOCS arrived and shook up the university administrators that they collectively lifted their heads from the sand. Now I disagree. It’s simply too complicated. When I started as an academic life was easy.

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Mark Smithers

AUGUST 24, 2015

I was expected to lecture, give tutorials and maybe seminars or laboratories depending on the topic. It was only when the large MOOCS arrived and shook up the university administrators that they collectively lifted their heads from the sand. Now I disagree. It’s simply too complicated. When I started as an academic life was easy.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

This talk was delivered at Virginia Commonwealth University today as part of a seminar co-sponsored by the Departments of English and Sociology. ” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity.

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