Mark Smithers

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Thanks to Kate Bowles ( @KateMfD ) for sending me a link to an open Coursesites web site (free registration) that has been created for the MOOC discussion at the forthcoming Universities Australia 2014 conference. There are six questions in the discussion area; these are: What have been the most significant impacts of MOOCs?

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Using everyday digital content, the COR paper and online assessments directly connect to the questions posed in SHEG’s study and engage learners in credibility decision-making around three COR Competencies: Who’s behind the information? The free assessments include Google Docs assessments to copy and digital rubrics to download.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

MOOCs are great ideas, but assessment and feedback loops and certification are among the many issues holding them back. Comparing an unsupported MOOC from 2008 to an in-person college experience isn’t apples to apples. In a 2016 article, ‘ Innovation in Higher Education: Can Colleges Really Change?’,

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Examples MOOC Education Competency Based Learning 141

Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2022

The time to assess the benefits and drawbacks of blockchain technology is right now, before adoption in schools and universities is widespread. A blockchain would most likely contain exam results or internship data, but is the publication of an article also something that should be stored? Education is more than mere courses completed.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 5, 2021

Because of the unique demands of asynchronous learning, curriculum, assessment, and instruction all have to be designed to make this not just possible, but likely. Diagnostic assessment (of competencies, knowledge, standards-based content, etc.) If these distinctions confuse you, maybe stick with the above definition for now.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

This involves navigating search engines, identifying key ideas, evaluating and assessing the quality of information and adapting it to the player’s own unique game world context. For more about using Minecraft with language learners, David Dodgson recommends the following resources: Articles. Minecraft MOOC EVO Minecraft MOOC YouTube.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

And then there were MOOCs , of course, and all those predictions and all those promises about the end of college as we know it: “MOOCs make education borderless, gender-blind, race-blind, class-blind and bank account-blind” and similar fables. Vive la MOOC Révolution. Adam Medros became edX’s president and COO.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

In the original article, I gave a list of what computing skills mathematics majors should learn and when they should learn them. The person emailing me was wondering if I had any updates on that list or any new ideas, seven years on from writing the article. But it's limited. For example Foundational Skill LA.1

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Each week for the past eight or so years, I have gathered a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this has fed the series of articles I have written each December, analyzing the stories we have been told about the future of education. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”).

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MOOC Education Elsevier Report 78

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Gotta keep that MOOC hype alive. “ MOOCs Find a New Audience with On-Campus Students,” Edsurge claims. National) Education Politics.

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Education Chegg MOOC Robotics 55

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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The Principal of Change

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

I saw the title of this article, “ Are Parent-Teacher Conferences Becoming Obsolete? I was expecting the article to talk about moving away from the “traditional parent conference” (sitting around for 10-20 minutes talking about a child’s experience in school) to something more student-led.

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Conference MOOC Elementary Assessment 71

Learning with 'e's

APRIL 6, 2013

A short article appearing in the Independent newspaper on April 6th highlights the tensions brewing because of the use of marking software. What he doesn''t say is that it''s an essential part of the management of MOOC s, especially if they are regularly enrolling upwards of 100,000 students for each course. Unported License.

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Robotics MOOC Software Course 56

The Principal of Change

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

In my last post, “Common Assessments” vs “Common Understandings” , I was reminded of how powerful comments are on a blog, and why blogging is a hugely powerful tool for not only sharing your learning, but learning from others. 2 What I think we mean is that we are looking for “common understandings”, not “common assessments”.

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Data Assessment Differentiated Instruction MOOC 77

Testpress

JANUARY 18, 2018

Summative Assessments are long tests and are usually used to evaluate students. Formative Assessments are short tests which are usually provided as practice tests. of MOOC completion rates. Let us know your thoughts about this article in the comment box. Short Tests. This is extraordinary compared to 5.5% Motivation.

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Hack Education

JULY 7, 2017

” Some of these experimental sites included MOOCs and coding bootcamps. Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Assessing the Travel Ban : What New Data on Overseas Recruitment Does – and Doesn’t – Tell Us.” More on certifications in the MOOC section above. ” Education in the Courts.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, MOOCs are, no surprise, their own entry on this long list of awfulness.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2016

When Massive Open Online Courses (or MOOCs) were first introduced, people quickly realized these platforms could help students learn more effectively at their own pace on their own schedule. Formal” education was no longer constrained to traditional classroom hours, if it ever was.

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Mobile Learning Mobility Smartphone LMS 101

The Principal of Change

JULY 13, 2017

From the article, “ 5 Unusual Facts About Google’s Odd (and Wildly Successful) Management Practices “(read the whole thing ): 5. Don’t get this mixed up with the idea that I do not believe we shouldn’t teach students content or have some type of standardized assessments.

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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. Applications such as EdPuzzle or Nearpod have become a valuable addition of self-paced learning with interaction and tracking student’s assessment within video based material.

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The Principal of Change

DECEMBER 13, 2018

In the article, “What Straight-A Students Get Wrong,” by Adam Grant, he discusses the idea that academic success is not always an indicator of future success: The evidence is clear: Academic excellence is not a strong predictor of career excellence. That is not what I took from the article at all.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Like many teachers, I would tap into the the Library of Congress, which would give me tips for teaching with primary sources , including quarterly journal articles on topics such as integrating historical and geographic thinking. Instead of being limited to my teaching and our textbook, we’d have access to an entire planet of experts.

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Bryan Alexander

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

The Washington Post offered a taste of it with an overview article, “ One vision of tomorrow’s college: Cheap, and you get an education, not a degree “, which I’ll summarize here. Assessment will involve increasingly strong AI, open credentialing, and open badging, relying on a mix of texts and digital projects.

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 3, 2013

This is due to the rapid proliferation of mobile technology, the disintermediation of traditional teacher and student roles, new trends such as MOOCs and the upsurge of user generated content on social media sites - all of which take learning away from previously familiar territory.

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Classroom MOOC Trends Social Media 62

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. There’s also an article on financial aid and cybersecurity in the data and surveillance section below. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). National) Education Politics.

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Education MOOC Pearson Blackboard 58

Hack Education

OCTOBER 27, 2017

“Assessing Betsy DeVos ’ Rollback on Disability Rights ” by Pacific Standard’s David Perry. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” MOOCs. “Learning Creative Learning: It’s not a MOOC , it’s a community,” says the MIT Media Lab. They’re back?

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Apologies that this week this article is a day late. ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). “Free MOOCs Face the Music,” writes Inside Higher Ed on edX ’s decision to start charging fees.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Gotta keep hyping that MOOC thing. Via Edsurge : “ MOOCs Are No Longer Massive. Writing assessment company Writable has raised $3.2

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Education MOOC Kaplan Robotics 46

Hack Education

JANUARY 19, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. There’s an article in the venture philanthropy section below about how private student loans are being pitched as “impact investing.” ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”).

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Education Elsevier MOOC Knewton 44

Hack Education

JULY 15, 2016

Here’s an old article from Chalkbeat on Pence’s K–12 policies. Testing, Testing… “ Nevada officials announced Tuesday that a common-core assessment consortium will credit the state $1.8 million as compensation for problems that derailed a spate of its assessments last year,” Education Week reports.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” The race for the California State Superintendent is still undecided – at least as I type up this article, it is. ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Education in the Courts. on Coursera.”

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2017

EDITED TO ADD: Apparently, The Guardian article is not quite right. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” edX is offering an online master’s degree with Georgia Tech : an OMS (online master’s in science) in Analytics. The Economist on “ The Return of the MOOC.”

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MOOC Education Robotics Report 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

” Re-reading that article now makes me cringe. ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) ” MOOCs looked – for a short while, at least – like they were going to pivot to become LMSes.

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Hack Education

MARCH 9, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” And I am not even linking to the National Review article promoting this racist crap. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Vive la MOOC révolution. National) Education Politics.

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Education Kaplan Coursera MOOC 47

Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

I’d hardly know where to begin in writing one, but I want to open this particular article – one that focuses, in part, on the whole “everyone should learn to code” craze – recognizing his great contribution to educational computing as well as his loss. Read Mindstorms. ” ). Only “1.86

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Technology Education Microsoft Industry 85

Hack Education

JANUARY 18, 2017

Justin Reich on “ assessment ” versus “ evaluation.” ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ MOOC enrollment drops at HarvardX and MITx after free certifications disappear ,” says Techcrunch. .” ” Via EdSource : “U.S.

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Hack Education

APRIL 3, 2017

Every year since 2010, I’ve undertaken a fairly massive project in which I’ve reviewed the previous twelve months’ education and technology news in order to write ten articles covering “the top ed-tech trends.” This is part of the push for MOOCs, we must be honest.). ” Despite raising some $87.5

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