Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

From the very start of digital education, the big question has always been: ”How can students learn effectively, if they’re not face-to-face with their instructors?” Students can communicate peer-to-peer and also engage instructors directly in text, voice, and video, recorded for later access or run immediately in real-time.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

In early 2017, organizations that have focused on digital learning came together to better leverage their strengths and capacities for a common goal: improving student success. The first goal was to create an environmental scan of the digital learning environment in higher education with a focus on adaptive technology.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 11, 2017

51Talk (or “China Online Education Group”), China’s leading online education platform and the first from China listed on the NYSE (NYSE: COE), was invited to attend the summit alongside education industry leaders such as Pearson, Amazon, and YouTube.

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2019

MOOCs, shorthand for massive open online courses, have been widely critiqued for their miniscule completion rates. Industry reports and instructional designers alike typically report that only between 5 to 15 percent of students who start free open online courses end up earning a certificate.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

as the leader in digital learning, representing the most adventurous innovations. At the very dawn of digital education, Canada introduced one of the very first learning management systems, WebCT, a pivotal application, invented at the University of British Columbia in 1997. I’ve always thought of the U.S. While here in the U.S.,

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Could the rise in MOOC-based and other certificates affect how traditional college degree paths are designed? What role should employers have in the design or execution of digital learning opportunities? Several #DLNchat-ters described the importance of project-based learning opportunities through employee partnerships.

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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. And major companies and industry groups are increasingly getting into the credentialing game, exemplified by firms such as IBM and Google.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2018

In the future,” he wrote, “I envision three tiers of education that look a lot like the music industry of today. Many online learning platforms, such as LinkedIn Learning and MasterClass, are indeed pivoting towards business models that look a lot like subscription-based streaming services Pandora, Spotify or Netflix.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2019

“The digitization of healthcare with more data and machine learning has created a skill set that many people didn’t study in school.” Instead, MOOC providers see an opportunity in helping medical professionals keep their knowledge and skills up to date after they graduate, a field also known as continuing medical education (CME).

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2020

Blockchain technology first appeared as part of cyber currencies like Bitcoin, but a range of industries are now experimenting with the approach, which involves making digital transactions public and permanent in a way that is very difficult to tamper with or counterfeit. the fact that not everyone can access digital technology.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The course will cost $49 per month and will be hosted on Coursera, a platform for massive open online courses, or MOOCs, that Ng co-founded in 2012. (He Instead it will be offered by Deeplearning.ai , an online learning company founded by none other than Ng himself. He left the company in 2014.) Several of the courses Deeplearning.ai

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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. Competency-Based Learning.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

With advancements in machine learning and deep learning, automation threatens forty-seven percent of the jobs in the U.S. Proponents of the liberal arts love to explain how an excellent general education will teach students to learn how to learn for a lifetime. Talk of lifelong learning doesn’t translate into action.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Now, a couple with similar industry cred has a similar vision—along with plenty of funding. “We We want to build from the ground up an inclusive learning system for students and faculty, one that can recreate engaging, live learning experiences online,” says Dan Avida. But they are not done with higher education yet.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

We find no one with a professional knowledge in the laws of learning, or the techniques for applying them,” he wrote. There are widespread beliefs about the best way to teach and learn that have been proven wrong by science, yet they persist. But at a university? “We Teaching at colleges is often done without any formal training.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2022

Limited time offers like flash sales are just one example of the kinds of marketing gimmicks that have become common in the past few years as the internet has become flooded with online course providers promising to help people learn new skills to get ahead in their careers or personal lives.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

That makes sense in the industrial world in which the measure of achievement and progress in higher education is time [spent in class]. Major online-learning platforms, including Coursera, are pushing colleges to offer more online degrees these days. It doesn't matter if I learned what I learned at Harvard.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2019

This week’s podcast is brought to you by UNC Chapel Hill’s Master of Arts in Educational Innovation, Technology, and Entrepreneurship Program, known as the MEITE Program : MEITE is for students pursuing careers in the educational technology industry. Learn more at ed.unc.edu/meite, on IG @UNCmeite , and Twitter @unc_Meite.

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2019

That ties to a broader point: There’s lot of innovation in credentials—from new forms of certificates, various types of micro credentials, all the work integrated learning that's going on, and much of the online education. So the innovation is not happening in undergrad? Yeah, absolutely. It's been happening.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

We’d also have access to historical documents from the British Museum – such as notes from an English merchant in Syria in 1739 – and to the prisoner of war archives from the Red Cross. And, if I was stuck for an idea for class, I could access the Social Studies lesson plans at Educade or the 400+ lesson plans at the EDSITEment!

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Just outside the walls of the ivory tower, a transformation is underway in the world of corporate learning, and those of us at colleges and universities should pay attention. Corporate learning and development, often referred to as L&D, is radically different than just a few years ago. Similarly, LinkedIn’s $1.5

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Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2018

Ahearn, an online learning manager for +Acumen, shares eight lessons learned about the field with a starter kit of what every hopeful instructional designer should know. These days corporate learning and development programs are looking for “bite-sized training” and curating learning materials that already exist.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2022

They envision an ecosystem where learners buy access to courses without enrolling in colleges; where teachers profit directly from their teaching; where students track progress on ever-lengthening credential chains; and where people who invest in the right tokens gather in learning groups to explore topics of mutual interest.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2016

As college students click, swipe and tap through their daily lives—both in the classroom and outside of it—they’re creating a digital footprint of how they think, learn and behave that boggles the mind. Unsure about what to do, many colleges and universities are restricting researchers’ access to student data.

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Edsurge

MAY 29, 2018

he’s been using virtual labs to create more realistic learning opportunities for online students—changes he believes will make quality education more authentic and accessible for all learners. He’d heard so much about online education as a learning path and he wanted to experience it firsthand.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2017

And lifelong learning is the education that never ends: An ever-evolving mastery and proof of abilities. The good news about lifelong learning for employers is that it means more workers will tailor their skills directly to their job functions. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Weekly Update. Higher Education.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Moth vets Chris De La Cruz, Crystal Duckert and Tim Manly will speak on social justice, hip-hop in learning, teachers’ feelings and more. The Future of Learning: Convergence of VR, AR, & AI : Treating future technologies as complementary, rather than separate, tools is the best path toward immersive learning. Look at Me!”

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TeacherCast

JANUARY 1, 2016

The infusion of innovative learning systems and computerization into educational settings promises to create significant change in the near future. These changes will impact both the way students learn and the appearance of traditional classroom settings. The Learning Management System Revolution.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2021

Course profiles feature statistics about typical industry salaries and list the companies that have hired completers. 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. Who Benefits?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

Blockchain, the technology that underpins cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, is now a buzzword in nearly every industry ranging from financing to healthcare. Santana said in Venezuela, where he grew up, the main obstacle people face when trying to complete school is not availability or accessibility, but affordability.

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Perry Hewitt

APRIL 15, 2018

A new reseller model bringing internet access to villages in rural Mexico. Exposed to new concepts, people, and settings, students are in a learning mindset and readily apply their minds to solving problems on campus, locally, and even globally. Build on the learning mindset?—?not Enable and reward cross-disciplinary learning.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Now in its seventh year, the annual gathering brings together thousands of entrepreneurs, educators and industry experts from around the world for four days stacked with panel discussions , workshops , an expo hall , meetups , film screenings —plus plenty of after-hours shindigs. to 11:00 p.m. But will VR and AR live up to its hype?

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 9, 2015

Powerful Tools for Teaching and Learning: Web 2.0 Foundations of Teaching for Learning 5: Planning for Teaching and Learning. Instructional Design for Mobile Learning. Prior Learning Assessment for Educators and Industry. Foundations of Teaching for Learning 8: Developing Relationships.

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Mistakengoal.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Maybe we can do that by trying to list some of the big ideas and an accessible entry point or summary of each idea. Daniel Bell’s 1973 book The Coming of Post-Industrial Society is a classic example of this work. Friedman and the rest of the uncritical MOOC cheerleaders) or dystopian views.

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Mistakengoal.com

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Maybe we can do that by trying to list some of the big ideas and an accessible entry point or summary of each idea. Daniel Bell’s 1973 book The Coming of Post-Industrial Society is a classic example of this work. Friedman and the rest of the uncritical MOOC cheerleaders) or dystopian views.

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EdTechSandyK

MARCH 4, 2013

Small start ups and giant MOOCS. Adult learning space, higher Ed, and K-12 all have different needs so they create different markets. Building learning content that students can access on their own. Adult learners adding to skill sets or learning about hobbies. Students like the on demand aspects of the learning.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 6, 2020

If you doubt that, read the quote below from a Harvard professor about the half-life of learned skills. Learn how to learn. According to research published in the Instructional Science journal, individual students experience a broad variety of differentiation in their understanding of how to undertake the learning process.

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