A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 31, 2016

Digital leadership focuses on transforming learning environments through online course offerings (synchronous and asynchronous), independent studies, and use of OpenCourseWare to provide students with continuous options to learn anytime, anywhere, and about anything. This is taken into account when they are assessed for their work.

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Personalized Learning Learning Secondary Course 150

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

This resulted in several of my students engaging in lengthy and demanding composition tasks. One group of junior high students who were very reluctant writers took it upon themselves to create their own guide in the form of a blog. Digging Deeper: Learning and Re-learning with Student and Teacher Minecraft Communities.

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Wiki MOOC Handbook Case Study 128

Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Research studies don’t provide strong evidence that synchronous learning universally leads to better student engagement and learning outcomes than asynchronous learning or vice versa. For example, most of the enrolled students in fully asynchronous MOOCs are adults, and even in this context, completion can be challenging.

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Learning Online Learning Outcomes Groups 196

Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Avida is the husband of Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller, and one of the first board members of the company that helped put the spotlight on massive online open courses, or MOOCs. Engageli’s approach to making online college classes more engaging may sound similar to other efforts.

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Coursera Personalized Learning Learning Blackboard 94

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2017

They can be something everybody uses; that’s how 2012 became the year of the MOOC, and why virtual reality will no doubt be widely cited as the trend of 2016. MOOCs continued to increase in number and attendance. By Stephen Downes, National Research Council. Now there are different ways things can be a ‘trend of the year’.

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Trends EdTech MOOC Smartphone 110

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Some learning engineers believe they can help students reach mastery of complex subject matter as much as 10 times faster than with traditional approaches. But Newkirk wanted to improve students’ motivation as well, so he brought in Mark Lepper, a psychology professor at Stanford who has studied how best to keep learners on task.

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Education Learning Software Knewton 201

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For their part, critics of laptop bans claimed the studies the op-eds frequently cite were flawed, reductive, and out-of-date. These critics argued that laptop bans are ableist and that they disadvantage students who opt to purchase digital textbooks rather than printed ones. The Intel Education Study App has now too been discontinued.

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Pearson MOOC Company Industry 145

The Principal of Change

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Teachers would tell me at conferences what I needed to help my son with, they would tell me how he was behaving and everything they did in class, like what they were studying,” said Carolina Rosales, a mother of two elementary-school kids. The portal might tell me he failed an assignment, but what does that tell me?”.

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Conference MOOC Elementary Assessment 71

Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2017

In a recent study done with prisoners, for instance, “the aspect of mindfulness associated with reserving judgment about the self actually increased criminogenic thinking significantly.” And that can have important consequences with student retention? But he also points out that such practices are not always universally positive.

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Training Flipped Classroom Study Trends 127

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via George Veletsianos : “A large-scale study of Twitter Use in MOOCs.” ” Research finds there’s a " global achievement gap in MOOCs. Via Campus Technology : “ Harvard Tailoring the MOOC Experience With Adaptive Learning.”

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Education MOOC Data Elsevier 40

Learning with 'e's

MAY 2, 2019

I was studying at college and a man in a white coat wheeled a television and video player into the room. My fellow students and I watched avidly - I can't recall what the topic was, but I do remember the thrill of the experience - it was fresh and new to be able to watch television in a formal education setting. Parlour, A.

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Video Learning BYOD MOOC 52

Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2017

Student engagement and retention mobile apps. Most of them offer some variation of the thesis that improving how “engaged” students are in their coursework and community will boost academic outcomes which will then increase retention. MOOCs or General Assembly for country X. Yes, this is a big problem. Facebook is.

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EdTech LMS Facebook Chegg 82

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Class Central : “ TU Delft Students Can Earn Credit For MOOCs From Other Universities.” Via eSchool News : “Why chatbots are not the future of student engagement.” McCarthyism is back,” writes David Palumbo-Liu. .

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Lenovo Education Facebook MOOC 51

Hack Education

JANUARY 5, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). From the Amazon PR department : “ University of Oklahoma Expands Student Engagement with Alexa Skills.” “A TurboTax for student loan applications” according to Techcrunch, the company has raised $15.5 million total. .”

Education 44

Education Kaplan E-rate Data 44

Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 2, 2019

But how do they compete with resources like MOOCs and OERs that have made high quality course content from respected university professors available for free? When students started migrating towards used textbooks, rentals, MOOCs and OER due to the high prices of printed textbooks, it affected the revenues of traditional book publishers.

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OER MOOC Education Adaptive Learning 16

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Smith, Director of Programs Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for STEM - Revolutionary or Evolutionary? Carmona, Lead Contract English Instructor Student-Generated Apps for Mobile Devices – can they enhance higher levels of understanding? Derek Barkalow, Ph.D.

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STEM Maker Movement MOOC Common Core 47

Hack Education

JANUARY 5, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ CSU signs deal to record, broadcast classroom lectures,” says the San Francisco Examiner. “Student engagement platform” ClearScholar has raised $1.25 Study-abroad program GradTrain has raised $500,000 in seed funding from undisclosed investors.

Education 47

Education Pearson Facebook Company 47

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Via Education Dive : “ The Iron Yard and Code Fellows , have partnered with nonprofit financial literacy organization Operation HOPE to create a $100 million scholarship fund to spur minority and low-income student engagement in tech fields.”

Education 40

Education Report MOOC E-rate 40

GoConqr

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Educators will soon need to start thinking like game designers if they want to keep their students engaged. “To To win student attention, educators will soon need to start thinking like game designers.” Many universities, like Stanford, have caught on to that trend and are already offering courses and degrees in gamification.

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Technology Trends Gamification Education 75

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

.” (Something else to keep an eye on: restricting loans to students based on grade, major , other data that’s been collected about them.). Via The Texas Tribune : “ Texas State Board of Education rejects Mexican-American studies textbook.” ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”).

Education 40

Education Company Data Pearson 40

Hack Education

AUGUST 31, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Kevin Carey argues in Washington Monthly “Why More Colleges Should Treat Students Like Numbers ”: Students who log on to the LMS, download materials, click on lectures, and contribute to discussions are much less likely to drop out than students who don’t.

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Education Social Media Company Data 41

Hack Education

DECEMBER 8, 2016

.” Via the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette : “Former Pitt student, key figure in Chinese-U.S. More promoting the wonders of AI in this Edsurge story : “ A Siri for Higher Ed Aims to Boost Student Engagement.” college testing scam , to be deported.” ” Inside Higher Ed reports. .”

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Education Report E-rate Company 40