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. Are You Still There?

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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.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Learn more at ed.unc.edu/meite, on IG @UNCmeite , and Twitter @unc_Meite. Some of the podcasters got their start making educational videos or or producing MOOCs, those free online classes that were all the rage a few years ago, but ended up not living up to the hype. It was me wanting to reach a larger audience,” says Sundaram.

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Educator Innovator

MAY 12, 2014

TeachDoNow is a free, collaborative learning experience offered by KQED this summer in partnership with Educator Innovator and the National Writing Project. using social media tools. The goals of this MOOC are to: Engage participants in relevant and important conversation around issues critical to 21st century learning.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

Competency-Based Learning. The definition of asynchronous learning helps us understand the need for asynchronous access to this content, especially when this access is not through a dated university learning management system, but something more authentic to the student, maybe even accessed on their own mobile devices.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2018

He’s won a national teacher-of-the-year award and his viral videos about education earned him praise from Wired magazine. It’s a new kind of MOOC, and it’s a new kind of philosophy,” he says. Wesch posts videos of himself doing the "challenges" he poses to his students.

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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. mobile learning and a whole host of other themes during the course. The group wiki is here if anyone wishes to view some of their content.

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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? So what does this all mean for education and learning? I remember having a conversation with a school district administrator about rethinking a professional learning opportunity for staff.

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Edsurge

MAY 14, 2017

“I could see that my students were distracted by social media during the lecture. At the time, I’d been hearing about what Khan was doing and suddenly I realized there’s a fundamental divide between how we’ve traditionally taught medical school and how the next generation is wired to learn.”

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 19, 2016

Technology topics included social media, video, 3d printing, VR, internet of things, automation, and privacy. In discussion we touched on cognitive computing, “quick” (live or easily published) video (Kat’s term), video growing on mobile devices. Participants spoke to early childhood computing.

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Learning with 'e's

MAY 7, 2013

Social media sites such as Twitter span huge distances to connect people around the world. There are many stories of people developing and sustaining friendship, or even romance and eventual marriage, after ''meeting'' on a social media site. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s. Unported License.

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ProfHacker

AUGUST 18, 2015

While late-night video chats have their own challenges, that course gave me plenty of opportunities to hear directly from each student and encourage collaboration and discussion. Evaluate learning outcomes and substitutions for physical activities. Adopt strategies from MOOCs and other large-scale courses.

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Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Online learning, or the teaching formerly knows as “distance learning” Will this keep growing? Skepticism about the quality of online learning could migrate to the general population. And the MOOC numbers look like they’re rising. Social media is something higher ed is ambivalent about.

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EdTechTeacher

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

To kick off this event, Alec Couros ( @courosa ), Associate Professor of educational technology and media at the Faculty of Education, University of Regina is giving the opening keynote. One day, Alec says that he tweeted out that he was thinking of starting a MOOC. It’s that the learning culture is participatory.

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The Principal of Change

APRIL 21, 2017

I saw a link for an interesting video on “accelerating learning” for students and was intrigued simply by the title. Michael Fullan, researcher and former dean of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, made the statement, “Learning is the driver; technology is the accelerator.”.

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Learning with 'e's

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

In a formal sense, distance learning has been a familiar concept since at least 1837, when Sir Isaac Pitman began teaching his shorthand system using typed instruction cards mailed through the universal Penny Postal service to his students across England. We have come a long way.

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EdTechSandyK

APRIL 8, 2014

Notes from the Discussion We no longer have to go to school if we want to learn. 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. Click here to see all of them.)

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Hack Education

APRIL 30, 2020

Ed-tech is not a tool that exists only in the service of improving teaching and learning, although that's very much how it gets talked about. They capture audio and video from the session — the background sounds and scenery from a student's home. Are they logging into the learning management system? Are they doing the work?

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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. I think this really helped me to observe how learning changes when we add too many rules and structure.

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Learning with 'e's

JUNE 11, 2015

Among other things, Jim Groom is Director of the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies and adjunct professor at the University of Mary Washington, USA. Spontaneous network connections, incorporating social media into physical spaces, the use of digital repositories such as Wikipedia, all seemed radical several years ago.

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Educator Innovator

OCTOBER 7, 2015

We would argue our students read and write more now than they ever have before—between texting, social media, gaming, and everything else they do in their digitally fueled, online lives. is a platform that allows students to take notes synchronized with video. as part of a flipped learning model. VideoNot.es

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

During the conference opening sessions we brainstormed as set of grassroots global education projects that we could bring to our personal learning networks to try to get started. student ED4ALL - U-Learning: Hacía un nuevo paradigma educativo - Gustavo Beltrami 9:00am Designation for the Global Ready Teacher! Instructor and Ph.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 24, 2016

A quick round of introductions revealed some interesting trends: a growing number of liberal arts institutions are launched or growing online learning programs; many sought to find the distinct ways liberal arts institutions, and campuses pursuing liberal education, can use technology. Online learning is on the rise.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 20, 2014

He is one of the pioneers of online and distance learning, and currently serves as the editor of the influential online open access journal International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning ( IRRODL ). When did you first become involved with research into distance education and online learning?

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Bryan Alexander

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Carey envisions colleges and universities transformed primarily by distance learning (although he doesn’t call it that). Learners using them will rely on social media and video to collaborate in the learning process. Some of the students live nearby and spend hours there every day, learning full-time.

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The Principal of Change

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Here we go… First off I get the audio from my YouTube video using a service like ClipConverter. Then, I google it and a kid who is probably under 12 years old makes a video that explains something to me that saved me hours of time. Now I can learn from them any place, anywhere, and at any time, on so many topics.

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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. September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon! Rightfully so. It can be a daunting task. Many people focus on the technologies on the outside.

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Inside Higher Ed : “Analysis of Georgia Tech ’s MOOC-inspired online master’s in computer science suggests that institutions can successfully deliver high-quality, low-cost degrees to students at scale.” The third: lifelong learning.

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MindShift

AUGUST 6, 2018

Excerpted from “ LEARNING HOW TO LEARN: How to Succeed in School Without Spending All Your Time Studying ” by Barbara Oakley, PhD, and Terrence Sejnowski, PhD, with Alistair McConville, published by TarcherPerigee, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC. It can help you learn better.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow. ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) Arguably, one of the best candidates is the learning management system.

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ViewSonic Education

DECEMBER 27, 2018

We’ve asked 3 Bett show speakers about their views on the tried-and-tested flipped classroom approach, which has been used to boost learning results from K-12 all the way through higher education for over 25 years. Dr. Neelam Parmar; Teacher & Director of E-learning for Primary & Secondary Schools. So what does this mean?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

” She posits gaming as the new site for “modern learning,” with an emphasis on skills training and data-driven self-improvement. There is much to learn from the Meeker report. There may be no better example of this in 2017 than “personalized learning.” It’s just not what you think.”

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2016

The corporate learning environment has been experiencing a great deal of development over recent years. Gone are the days when the organization dictated what should be learned and how. Here are some of the trends that you'll start to notice in corporate learning in the near future.

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Learning with 'e's

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

Punk learning (some would call it Edupunk ) reflects that seventies music ethos. For some time, educators have been subverting established methods and turning their backs on institutional tools and technologies such as the managed learning environment (also known as LMS or VLE). But punk educators need to be wary of a precedent.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 11, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update March 11th The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist." - Maria Montessori Welcome to the Learning Revolution. Learning Revolution Conference Online. The Learning Revolution Conference call for proposals is now open.

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Educator Innovator

JULY 30, 2014

At the heart of the Maker Party campaign, Webmaker tools/resources, and Hive Learning Network is the Web Literacy Map , which outlines what we at the Mozilla Foundation think are the important skills and competencies needed to be literate on the web. Let’s get started! Once you have an event confirmed, add it to the Maker Party events page.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 8, 2015

This post is actually intended to supplement the “Cycle of Learning Innovation” model that will be publishing tomorrow (7.7.2015), which means this is less about analysis and context and more about the examples. Increasingly formal use of social media by education institutions. by Terry Heick. Maker Movement.

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