TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

In 2015, someone asked me what I thought about innovation in higher ed in an email, so I responded with a couple of hundred words, which I added to in creating this short blog post. MOOCs are great ideas, but assessment and feedback loops and certification are among the many issues holding them back. by Terry Heick. We shall see.

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Bryan Alexander

MAY 18, 2022

So I started asking around, bugging individuals and querying social media. Udemy – the MOOC provider may let users create classes there. A client asked me this question last week, and I really didn’t have a solid answer ready to hand, since most of my work to date has involved institutions.

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Learning with 'e's

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

They are only a small group of a dozen students, but over the last few months, my elearning module group has created a very large amount of content, including blogs, wiki pages and videos. I asked the members of the two teams to research their arguments, with supporting evidence, and blog their ideas in preparation for next week's debate.

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 8, 2019

I will share the slide deck of my keynote via this blog later in the year as I prepare to visit Estonia for the second time, and I look forward to renewing old acquaintances and forging new friendships too. Some have penetrated deeply into education while others are still peripheral.

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 3, 2013

This is the fourth blog post in my series on the future of learning and technology. Cuban is very sceptical of online courses, and presumably his sceptiscism also embraces MOOCs. As ever, your comments on this blog are welcome. What will be the future of school classrooms? Unported License.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Of course, teachers have utilized social media sites for years to launch various side-hustles — speaking gigs and “ brand ambassadorships ”, for example — as well as to facilitate their main hustle — you know, teaching. The incident, she added, had also made her aware that “Pearson is monitoring all social media during PARCC testing.”

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The Principal of Change

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The first question is the following: How many of you in this room go onto your personal social media while you are working? Instead of teachers coming in on certain professional learning days, if they were to blog or share actual work and link it back to a simple google doc, they could earn days in lieu through the process.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 16, 2015

I usually feature them on this blog under the banner of 10Q - ten questions. blogs, social media, learning objects, OERs, MOOCs, etc in this period. I think many MOOCs (and MOOC providers) will struggle to find a sustainable financial model in their current guise. I think the hype is definitely over.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “Stop Asking About Completion Rates: Better Questions to Ask About MOOCs in 2019,” says Edsurge. .” ” “Stop Asking About Completion Rates: Better Questions to Ask About MOOCs in 2019,” says Edsurge.

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The Principal of Change

JULY 5, 2017

If you clicked on this blog post because of the title hoping I would provide answers, I am about to disappoint you. I am blogging to learn here, not to necessarily share learning. I love writing comments on blogs because it makes me really try to understand what the author is sharing, but also spurs me to think deeply about a topic.

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ProfHacker

MAY 28, 2015

She blogs at [link] and tweets @bali_maha.–@JBJ. For me, this is exactly what social media, especially Twitter, is all about. It turns out there is either a new MOOC they’re participating in, a conference they’re live-tweeting about, or a Twitter chat going on. –@JBJ. Serendipitous Learning.

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Doug Levin

MAY 12, 2015

I don’t fret much at all over some of what Clark raises: the acceptance and/or lack of broader cheer-leading for Wikipedia, MOOCs, or Khan Academy as success stories. K-12 context, individual teacher’s choices about instructional materials are constrained by district and state policy anyway.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

He’s credited with co-teaching the first MOOC in 2008, introduced the theory of “connectivism”—the idea that knowledge is distributed across digital networks—and spearheaded research projects about the role of data and analytics in education. Blogs, wikis and social media, on the other hand, are distributed across networks.

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Tom Murray

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

When I got connected on social media, my lens was expanded and I became aware additional organizations, as well as their supporting tools and resources. During my time as a public school employee, I’d occasionally hear about educational organizations that were working to support schools in some capacity.

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Learning with 'e's

MAY 20, 2015

There were posts about the Anatomy of PLEs , their functionality , their role as a counterpoint to the institutional Learning Management System, and also their relationship to MOOCs and Connectivism. People tend rarely to refer to them now.

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Learning with 'e's

DECEMBER 8, 2015

The last two decades alone have seen a rapid rise in popularity of the World Wide Web, smartphones, social media, social networks, augmented reality, wearable technologies and user generated content sites. Further details will be posted about the schedule on this blog and also on the EDEN NAP website later.

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 10, 2012

Just look at her profile: She is a teacher trainer, author, and international speaker, is the host of American TESOL’s Free Friday Webinars and the Social Media Community Manager for The Consultants-E. What does social media mean to you? It is basically a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course).

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Hack Education

AUGUST 19, 2016

One of the big stories this week: the US Department of Education ’s announcement about which “non-traditional providers” ( MOOCs , coding bootcamps ) will be eligible for financial aid as part of its EQUIP experiment. ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Education Politics.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Class Central : “ MOOCs May Still Be Reshaping Higher Education, Just Not In the Way That Was Initially Predicted.” There’s more MOOC news in the contests and competition section below. ” “Big Online Courses Have a Problem.

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EdTechSandyK

APRIL 8, 2014

edX - www.edex.org - MOOC site, courses are all free, people who teach the courses are from Harvard, MIT, Berkeley, University of Texas, etc. Coursera is another option for higher ed MOOCS. Close to 10% of students got into MIT by excelling in a MOOC. Then, if you are lucky, all of your teachers will have a blog.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

All three are outstanding (and free), but perhaps the most immediately useful to readers of this blog is Civic Online Reasoning or COR. Claims on Social Media : Students consider the sources of a tweet and the information contained in it in order to describe what makes it both a useful and not useful source of information.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 27, 2012

The "Open Course" he has run since 2007 incorporates both formal and informal aspects of social learning within its very loose structure, and has been credited as being one of the inspirations of some prominent MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) offerings (although he describes the Open Course as a "Small Open Online Course").

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The Principal of Change

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Starting “ The Innovator’s Mindset ” MOOC this week ( #IMMOOC ), a lot of people are jumping into blogging, and many people are reluctant and nervous. Over the years, I have encouraged a lot of people to blog, and the ones that have stuck with it, I have seen grow tremendously. Rightfully so.

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Learning with 'e's

OCTOBER 30, 2011

Those of us who are residents in the land of social media already know the truth of this, but it's nice to see it opined on the pages of a mainstream publication. Kamenetz eulogises over blogs which she describes as nodes in a vast, informal network of learning and opportunity.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Participants are encouraged to use #library2019 and #libraryemergingtech on their social media posts leading up to and during the event. She is the author of two books, Understanding Gamification and Library Mobile Experience: Practices and User Expectations and the founding editor of ACRL TechConnect Blog.

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Hack Education

APRIL 30, 2020

Many of these companies were launched circa 2013 — that is, in the tailwinds of "the Year of the MOOC," with the belief that an increasing number of students would be learning online and that professors would demand some sort of mechanism to verify their identity and their integrity. Who's cheating the time-clock, that is.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Gotta keep hyping that MOOC thing. Via Edsurge : “ MOOCs Are No Longer Massive. ” Via Class Central : “Class Central’s Top 50 MOOCs of All Time (2018 edition).” Inside Higher Ed on “The End of a Blogging Era at Harvard.”

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Learning with 'e's

JUNE 11, 2015

Groom's popular and anarchic blog Bavatuesdays is a regular port of call for all those seeking this kind of eclectic and irreverent mashup of concepts, thoughts and opinions. Over 500 people's blogs were aggregated onto the central ds106 website, and the creativity was supported further. Listening to Jim Groom speak is a lot of fun.

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ViewSonic Education

DECEMBER 27, 2018

There can also be a temptation for children to use other technologies whilst viewing content, such as utilising social media and temporary blocks on other tools during flipped learning activities should be considered. In the blog, he highlighted how he looked into original content so his students couldn’t go online in advance.

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Hack Education

MAY 25, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). MOOCs are back in the headlines again. Via Edsurge : “The Second Wave of MOOC Hype Is Here, and It’s Online Degrees.” ” From the Google blog : “ Google Science Fair 2018 : Resources for educators to get ideas flowing.”

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 8, 2015

Increasingly formal use of social media by education institutions. Rapid change in the demands for media forms (e.g., blogs, social media, podcasting) to promote conversation and thinking around what’s possible in education. MOOCs, nanodegrees, etc. Maker Movement. Ease of publishing (e.g.,

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

Check out our growing list of MOOCs and Courses on the EdSurge Index. As for your social profiles such as Facebook and Instagram, previous wisdom used to to be to hide any trace that a hiring manager could find. Hiring managers are human, after all, so this can be a great way to appeal to that side of them.

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Educator Innovator

JUNE 27, 2014

Here’s a selection: From June 13th to August 1st, a MOOC (massive open online collaboration) on connected learning “will provide many opportunities for participants to connect and form small groups in order to share and reflect on their work, which is what we think MOOCs should be all about. Your learning will be directed by you.”

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2017

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.” The social media platform had raised $2.5 ” Price tag for the report: $3599.

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Educator Innovator

JULY 30, 2014

This post originally appeared on the Mozilla Webmaker blog. Punk A Friend : Use X-Ray Goggles to remix a friend’s social media profile, their favorite web site, or a news article. For more support and professional development, join the Webmaker Training MOOC. Remix Animated GIF Music Videos. Make a 6 Word Memoir.

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Hack Education

JUNE 22, 2018

From the Department of Education press release : “ Federal Commission on School Safety Meeting to Focus on the Effects of Entertainment , Media , Cyberbullying and Social Media on Violence and Student Safety.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Starts with a g? Ends with -uns?

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via The GW Hatchet : “Oversight of online learning programs lacking in some schools, report finds.” Via the edX blog : “edX le da la bienvenida a la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba.” Once upon a time, Coursera updates went in the MOOC section.

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