Digital Promise

JANUARY 11, 2017

The latest piece of news on MOOCs — massive online open courses — suggests that they may not yet be the great democratizer of education that they were envisioned to be. 12, shows that, generally, MOOCs have not reached such a demographically broad audience. The Futures of MOOCs. college graduate.

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EdTech4Beginners

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

In the dynamic landscape of education, technological advancements continue to reshape traditional practices, offering innovative solutions to age-old challenges. Whether grading assignments for a small classroom or a massive open online course (MOOC), AI tools can accommodate varying workloads without compromising grading quality or accuracy.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 18, 2020

Technology has vastly disrupted and improved numerous sectors around the world, be it the government and banking, or retail and marketing. Unsurprisingly, technology is also impacting the world of education. Gone are the days when teachers had to drag TVs into classrooms to let students watch films. Video-assisted Learning.

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2018

Has the MOOC revolution come and gone? Or will the principles of the MOOC movement continue to influence higher ed? On Tuesday, April 10 the #DLNchat community got together to discuss and debate: How Have MOOCs Impacted Approaches to Student Learning? How many MOOCs have you signed up for and how many have you taken?”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 29, 2016

The modern massive open online course movement, which began when the first “MOOCs” were offered by Stanford professors in late 2011, is now half a decade old. In that time, MOOC providers have raised over $400 million and now employ more than a thousand staff. Class Central. million Udacity - 4 million. And it seems to be working.

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The Shake Up Learning Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The post 20 New Ways to Use Google Classroom [infographic] appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Expand Your Use of Google Classroom. Google Classroom can be used for so much more than just your traditional classroom LMS. Consider these 20 New Ways to Use Google Classroom. 20 NEW Ways to Use Google Classroom.

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2018

You could call extension schools the original MOOCs. Well, unless you count the students in MOOCs, those free online courses, which are offered through a different division of the university. Yet during that same period, another part of the university, HarvardX, has been running MOOCs, massive open online courses.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MARCH 3, 2018

Today, The Goal-Minded Teacher ( #EduGoalsMOOC ) free open online course Twitter chat took place about the topic, Effective Technology Integration. Our focus for the upcoming week is classroom management and parent engagement. A short list of useful resources that relate to the use of technology in education. All-Time” Best 2.0

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 27, 2022

The most notable changes are related to applying new teaching methods that speak to students’ interests, using technology to bring quality to under-resourced neighborhoods, and building capacity in educators to teach future-ready skills. Using technology to bring high-quality social capital to under-resourced neighborhoods.

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EdTechSandyK

JULY 27, 2014

Image Source Used Under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND License Week 4 of the Foundations of Virtual Instruction MOOC I started on June 30th is wrapping up today. By this time next week, I will hopefully have successfully completed my first MOOC. I was especially interested/distressed to find out that even in MOOCs, people try to cheat !

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Technology is an excellent way to make students of all generations more engaged in classroom activities and more motivated when they attend classes or do their homework. Some tend to consider technology as a threat, as its extensive use reduces the attention span considerably and makes students less interested in education in general.

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The Web20Classroom

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

When I decided to pursue a Master’s Degree in Instructional Technology, I started out like many students do. Many students can now obtain full degrees, from bachelor’s to PhD, all from a laptop in their living room, rather than a stuffy classroom in a building named for someone few remember. Everything was virtual.

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Mark Smithers

MARCH 12, 2013

This morning Richard Grusin posted a series of twenty tweets presenting a highly critical and thought provoking view of MOOCs. MOOCs are the bastard children of 1980s cyber-utopianism and post-1945 economic neoliberalism. MOOCs are a 21st century manifestation of cyberspace’s revolutionary ideology of information freedom.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 6, 2020

The main takeaway: Learning how to learn is the single most important skill that our students will need to master if they hope to participate meaningfully in the fast-paced, technology-driven workplace of the future. Teach Students to Embrace Technology and Remote Learning. MOOCs are not an ideal way for most students to learn.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2018

During my tenure as technology director at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Day School in Miami, the idea of makerspaces — collaborative workspaces that are growing more and more popular across the country — intrigued me, from both a pedagogical and a technological perspective. Makerspace Educators Need Professional Development, Too.

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eSpark

APRIL 7, 2022

Edtech is being used in classrooms more than ever before. Think of it as a cheat sheet to help you learn all you need to know about technology in the classroom! Think of it as a cheat sheet to help you learn all you need to know about technology in the classroom!

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EdTechTeacher

AUGUST 10, 2015

Last week MIT kicked off a free new massive open online course called 11.133: Implementation and Evaluation of Education Technology. The course is designed to help educators think about how to integrate emerging technologies into schools and classrooms and how to evaluate those efforts.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

More than two decades ago, when I was hired at Stevens Institute of Technology, as dean of web-based distance learning—a quaint title for what is now known as online learning—few tools were available to help faculty migrate their on-campus courses online. The term MOOC was coined by others in 2008.) Sink or swim. million students.

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TeacherCast

JANUARY 1, 2016

Widespread public interest surrounds new technologies in the classroom. With many communities anxious to enhance local school systems and increase opportunities for students, teachers and pupils, 2016 appears poised to witness a lot of exciting new developments in the world of education technology.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

But they are also–subtly, and critically–the result of technological change. In fact, if we pull back from the immediate horrors of this moment, the move to online learning has actually been underway since around 2010, when universities and private entrepreneurs first began to experiment with Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs.

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Neo LMS

MAY 21, 2020

The current technology only offers a new (and significantly improved) support for a type of education that has been around for more than 150 years. The Open Universities were already a reality in the 20th century, and with the extensive use of the internet, the MOOC phenomenon has grown exponentially over the last decade.

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ViewSonic Education

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Have you ever felt that the traditional classroom structure we’ve all grown used to is a bit too limiting for the today’s day and age? Below you’ll find professional insight into: What is a flipped classroom approach? What challenges will you face within a flipped classroom approach? So what does this mean?

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JULY 28, 2017

“In an effective classroom students should not only know what they are doing, they should also know why and how.” I actually did this for one of my Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). Think of it as a map of the learning adventure in your classroom and each assignment is a link to a new path of exploration.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 2, 2020

This article is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. EdSurge : What technology has been the most disappointing? Ted Dintersmith : There was a massive gush of enthusiasm for MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses), with some conviction it would revolutionize higher education.

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eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2021

Nonprofit VHS Learning is partnering with Continental Han Feng Network Technology (CHF) to develop a full Chinese language high school program. The courses feature interactive and robust online classroom communities — a critical instructional element during these times of social distancing.

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The Principal of Change

DECEMBER 28, 2016

– Technologies That Will Define the Classroom of the Future https://t.co/XnFCPlER4r. As educators, we should always be aware of what is going on in the world, and not be in a state of a perpetual “catch-up” I appreciated the author sharing these eight technologies and some insights into each: 1. XnFCPlER4r.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Join me today, Wednesday, September 26th, for a one-hour live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar on the "true history" of the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) with Dave Cormier, Alec Couros, Stephen Downes, Rita Kop, Inge de Waard, and Carol Yeager. His educational journey started in 1998 teaching little children to speak English.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2017

EdSurge talked with Rick Levin, CEO of Coursera (and former president of one of those big-name universities, Yale) about how the mega-courses known as MOOCs have changed in the five years since the start of their hype-filled debut. It has been five year since Coursera launched its first MOOCs. How’s that going?

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 6, 2015

Rows of seats still persist in the classrooms of many schools, and direct instruction still holds sway. He argued that in the new learning ecology, where technology can connect students to any others, and any content, any where in the world, is one in which content must change. One size never did fit everyone. Unported License.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2018

Teachers spend hours designing and setting up their classrooms. One of EdSurge’s most popular articles described how a teacher used flexible seating to create a classroom that resembled Starbucks, spawning a movement to “ Starbucks your classroom. ” I think we’ve seen this reemergence—unintentionally—in the form of MOOCs.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

But there’s a challenge in getting those findings to folks at the front of the classroom. Now offering 28 pathways in Health & Human Services, Information Technology, Business, Agriculture, and Manufacturing and the Trades. The hype around MOOCs and other disruptive tech at colleges has faded.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2018

While not quite the “Year of the MOOC,” 2018 saw a resurgence in interest around the ways these massive open online courses are delivering free (and more often these days, not free) online education around the world, and how these providers are increasingly turning to traditional institutions of learning. Cheating on Chegg?

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2020

Insights that derive from dialog between K-12, higher education, and online-learning providers could well shape instructional practices for the better as students return to school, whether in a classroom or over Zoom. Instructors have also experimented with lecture formats that did away with podiums and blackboards.

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EdTechnocation.com

APRIL 3, 2014

For Unit 3 of the MOOC-Ed, Coaching Digital Learning: Cultivating a Culture of Change , we explored the TPACK and SAMR frameworks. These are two great models to help teachers find the most effective way of integrating educational technology. We should not simply use technology for the sake of using technology.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Researchers are gaining a better understanding of how people learn—both what works and what doesn’t go so well—in the classroom. One person pushing to put learning science into practice on college campuses is Sanjay Sarma, vice president for open learning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They flip the classroom.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2022

Young The MOOC giant was valued at more than $3.6 By Sabyn Javeri In a Zoom classroom, the teacher is no longer the central authority, argues the author of this essay, who explains why she thinks that’s good for education. Young This analysis of a major MOOC provider proved prescient; the nonprofit was purchased later in the year.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 12, 2015

But that distance, though real, is also a metaphor for some of the other impediments to education that the college seeks to mitigate through technology. One sees this in PTCC’s recent pilot program for students in the Advanced Manufacturing Technology program (which Edwin is part of).

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