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. I developed their MA in Lifelong Learning programme.

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The Web20Classroom

MAY 12, 2014

As a former Director of Instructional Technology my job was to provide technology embedded professional development (PD) to a district of 4000 teachers. The traditional forms of sit-and-get PD are giving way to MOOCs, webinars, Edcamps and flipped learning. Check out this blog post to learn more.

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eSpark

APRIL 7, 2022

Think of it as a cheat sheet to help you learn all you need to know about technology in the classroom! Blended learning combines traditional, in-person learning with digital learning, so that students can experience both forms. MOOC refers to a massive online open course, a type of distance learning.

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EdTechnocation.com

APRIL 2, 2014

Here is my Unit 2 reflection for the MOOC-Ed, Coaching Digital Learning: Cultivating a Culture of Change. Unit 2 focuses on the development of your PLN (Professional Learning Network) and becoming a "Connected Educator". My Instructional Technology Coaching Action Plan. Digital edtech Learning mooc MOOC-Ed'

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

When learning occurs entirely through computer-mediated instruction, professors often overlook simple steps like asking participants to introduce themselves. Details like asking your students to create a video introduction to a class can have a powerful impact. However, many are coding the human element out of learning.

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Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 29, 2015

What can we expect in 2016 from the intersection of technology and education? I’m building on previous posts about trends in technology and educational contexts , plus my FTTE report, naturally. Educational technology trends. Skepticism about the quality of online learning could migrate to the general population.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Or video games,” one student suggested. Oral presentations became screen-casted videos of student-created builds. Language Learning and Minecraft. Learning English in Minecraft: a case study on language competences and classroom practices. Minecraft MOOC EVO Minecraft MOOC YouTube. IrvSpanish.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 20, 2013

Ostensibly, learning is an individual goal, and each student does tend to learn in their own way, using their own favoured approaches and tools. We refer to this as personalised learning ( a video explains ). MOOCs take learning even farther away from the classroom. Learning is learning.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) Are any education technologies, for that matter? And accordingly, platforms are the underlying trend that ties together popular narratives about technology and the economy in general.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update February 4th Education is soul crafting. Cornel West Welcome to the Learning Revolution. The technologies of the Internet and the Web are reshaping where, when, and from whom we learn. The Learning Revolution Project highlights virtual and physical events from Web 2.0

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Learning with 'e's

APRIL 3, 2017

Clearly, one size does not fit all, and we need personalised learning experiences for our students if we are to prepare them for an ever changing, volatile world. Here's a short video on personalised learning I made for the D-Transform project last year in Barcelona. Unported License.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Learning Models, Theories, and Technology: A Dictionary For 21st Century Teachers. Purpose: Improving our chance for a common language in discussing existing and emerging learning trends, model, and technology in hopes of innovation in classrooms, and collectively, education at large. I’m only one person. ; ^ ).

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Hack Education

MAY 6, 2020

I want to talk to you today about the history of educational crises and education technology. And as we lurch from crisis to crisis — real crisis or manufactured crisis — technology has often been proposed as the fix, "the solution." And we surely need to ask, who proposes technology as the solution? Whose fix is this?

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Educator Innovator

DECEMBER 13, 2016

New media educator Howard Rheingold interviews educator Kevin Hodgson about connected learning and how educators enact its principles with technology. If you are organizing a course, MOOC, or co-learning community, daily connects are one of the most powerful and yet simple tools at your disposal.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2017

Since the New York Times named 2012 the year of massive open online courses (MOOCs), millions have flocked to platforms offering them such as edX and Coursera. The six-week long MOOC will touch on topics including open educational resources (OER), open pedagogy and practice, open knowledge and open research. Ekowo: Why this MOOC?

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Inside Higher Ed : “Donald De La Haye started making YouTube videos long before he joined the University of Central Florida ’s football team. Her remarks.)

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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. We voted on five project to to focus on right away with a set of basic questions for each: " What do you want to do?

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Learning with 'e's

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

They were surely an asynchronous form of instruction, a sort of same place - different time learning. By comparison, in its technology supported multiple formats, contemporary distance education is much more sophisticated. Learning in any mode, in any place and at any time is accessible to anyone with the means to access it.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

The report is always a big deal in technology circles – “a tech industry event in its own right,” as Wired’s Steven Levy put it in 2012 – and many publications and pundits dutifully cover Meeker’s observations, often adding very little analysis of their own. ”) How accurate are her observations?

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

What do you think the whole MOOC thing George Siemens and I and others was about? Beginning in 2003 and continuing consistently thereafter I have depicted learning resources as words in a conversation , and applied the logic of language to the logic of reuse. We are focused on the advantages of OER-enabled pedagogy.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

He’ learns from live broadcasting videos by himself and can read texts as naturally as a professional news anchor,” according to Xinhua News. English AI looks like all the other talking heads sitting at a news desk, but the English-speaking anchor isn’t a person. Related: Youth will determine the outcome of the 2018 midterms.

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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. This free, online event all about learning will have two days of open sessions on April 24th and 25th.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 2, 2020

This article is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. Now retired, he’s devoted to education philanthropy, and supporting schools that reimagine teaching and learning. (For EdSurge : What technology has been the most disappointing? What never lived up to expectations (or the hype?)

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2017

Here’s what they said: 2016 was The Year of Video. They can be something everybody uses; that’s how 2012 became the year of the MOOC, and why virtual reality will no doubt be widely cited as the trend of 2016. As that sort of trend video has come and gone. YouTube and Netflix are old hat; everybody’s watching video online today.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “Aftermath of the MOOC wars: Can commercial vendors support creative higher education ? It includes all the buzzwords : competency-based education, personalized learning, and even blockchain! Raise $146.1 ” Investors seem to love that. .”

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Hack Education

AUGUST 12, 2016

.” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Education Dive makes claims about “ MOOCs as tools for equity in under-resourced high schools.” ” Elsewhere, more claims about “the global poor” and MOOCs (and other ed-tech companies) in Edsurge. .” ” Oh look.

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MindShift

DECEMBER 14, 2015

For almost a century, technology enthusiasts have promised that new innovations can democratize education. In our own time, advocates of online learning promise to level the educational playing fields with massive open online courses, MOOCs. By John Hansen and Justin Reich.

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Hack Education

APRIL 21, 2017

Yet, according to this study, nearly half of the donors have chosen to supply educational technology, far more than are building schools, providing basic books and materials or employing teachers. ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via WCTI12.com ” “ MOOCs Started Out Completely Free.

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Hack Education

JUNE 9, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” If you can’t create revenue, raise venture capital. Via Edsurge : “As LinkedIn ’s Video Library Grows, Company Says It Has No Plans to Compete With Colleges.” Inside Higher Ed on “ Video Games as a College Sport.” ”). .”

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 22, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update April 22nd The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn.and change. Carl Rogers The technologies of the Internet and the Web are reshaping where, when, and from whom we learn--and even how we think about learning. Learn how to leverage web 2.0

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Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

” Via The Intercept : “These Are the Technology Firms Lining Up to Build Trump’s ‘Extreme Vetting’ Program.” ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “ Andrew Ng , Co-Founder of Coursera , Returns to MOOC Teaching With New AI Course.”

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” The University of Iceland has joined edX. Via The MIT Technology Review : “Finally, a Useful Application for VR: Training Employees.” ” “ Learning to code will eventually be as useful as learning Ancient Greek,” Quartz claims. .”

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Hack Education

JULY 20, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. It would be great to see education technology organizations also turn away this money, knowing that – if nothing else – children and families are harmed by anti-immigration policies and practices. National) Education Politics.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Class Central : “ TU Delft Students Can Earn Credit For MOOCs From Other Universities.” National) Education Politics. Upgrades and Downgrades.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Politico : Western Governors University , “the nation’s leading provider of competency-based educatio n – which the Education Department’s independent watchdog last month said violated federal student aid rules – is expanding into North Carolina.”

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” 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. Open Learning has raised $8.5 million total.

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Hack Education

APRIL 6, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). “The MOOC is not dead, but maybe it should be,” says Rolin Moe. Via The MIT Technology Review : “ MIT severs ties to company promoting fatal brain uploading.”

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