Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

TEN YEARS OF EDUCATION RESEARCH has shown we are failing to use technology effectively with underserved students, who are mostly subjected to “drill-and-practice or remediation” activities, writes Molly B. SLACK ON: MOOCs get knocked for lacking the intimate discussions and organic student interactions that accompany college classes IRL.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 16, 2020

Technology plays a prominent role in the modern classroom. Education technology tools and solutions are becoming commonplace and widespread. As a result, educators must stay on top of trends and pursue ongoing learning in technology. As members, educators can take part in events, forums, seminars, training and more.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

As an instructional designer who has been building MOOCs for the past five years, I’ve been asked this question more times than I count. MOOCs have been called abysmal , disappointing failures. The average completion rate for MOOCs (including the ones I design) hovers between 5-15 percent. This skepticism is not unwarranted.

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Learning with 'e's

APRIL 8, 2015

My own particular research interest at the time was to use audio and video conferencing technology (videoconferencing was very new at the time) as a means of connecting together our remote study centres so that all students could access the same content and hear the same visiting lecturers without missing out on the experience.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 31, 2015

My research into learning technology has attracted many invitations to speak at universities in far flung places. Here''s the story: My invitation to present a research seminar for staff and post graduate students at the University of Antarctica , came out of the blue. My first thought was that it must be some kind of a joke.

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 12, 2016

Jim described it as a way to think through technology in order to empower the educational community beyond tech skills and training. Users had to learn a galaxy of technologies (DNS, FTP, etc). He also argued that metaphors of technology are the poetry of our moment. THE DOMAIN OF ONE’S OWN.

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 12, 2016

Jim described it as a way to think through technology in order to empower the educational community beyond tech skills and training. Users had to learn a galaxy of technologies (DNS, FTP, etc). He also argued that metaphors of technology are the poetry of our moment. THE DOMAIN OF ONE’S OWN.

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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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Mark Smithers

AUGUST 24, 2015

I’m using this anniversary to reflect on my experiences in educational technology over the last 20 years. We’ve found out a lot about how people learn in higher education and the technology has allowed us to try things that just weren’t possible before. Well a lot of people have done many good things. What did we get wrong?

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Mark Smithers

AUGUST 24, 2015

I’m using this anniversary to reflect on my experiences in educational technology over the last 20 years. We’ve found out a lot about how people learn in higher education and the technology has allowed us to try things that just weren’t possible before. Well a lot of people have done many good things. What did we get wrong?

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

This talk was delivered at Virginia Commonwealth University today as part of a seminar co-sponsored by the Departments of English and Sociology. I pick ten trends and themes in order to closely at the recent past, the near-term history of education technology. The slides are also available here. The quotation is from 2012.

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Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

The answer has been “yes” for some years, and I’m not talking about MOOCs or University of Phoenix. ITEM: Over the past several years a group of small colleges, members of the Council of Independent Colleges ( CIC ), experimented with sharing upper-level humanities seminars with each other. Here are some examples.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2017

It’s part of a continued evolution of MOOCs, or Massive Open Online Courses. Serving the 300 million people expected to enter higher education in the next year with classroom sizes found in typical college seminars, he adds, is simply “not possible.”

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 16, 2013

There are eight conference strands covering a wide variety of timely topics, such as MOOCs, e-books, maker spaces, mobile services, embedded librarians, green libraries, doctoral student research, library and information center "tours," and more! We have 146 accepted conference sessions and ten keynote addresses. Or Is There?

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Hack Education

MAY 26, 2016

This keynote was delivered today at the Irish Learning Technology Association's annual conference, EdTech2016, in Dublin. I’m not sure we talk often enough about technology-enhanced learning in these terms – as a political not merely pedagogical practice. The full slidedeck is available here.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

It’s worth reexamining how we’re recreating these educational walled gardens online—as we move from the heyday of MOOCs in 2012 to the gradual decline of open access courseware in 2017. These are the resources that are typically still free like MOOCs, Khan Academy videos, TED videos, and some adaptive learning platforms.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2016

“But adaptive-learning technologies are bullsh*t, c’mon,” one of us would say. Adaptive technologies aren’t ideal, but they’re a stepping stone.”. It’s simple to talk in the abstract about badges and blockchains, software and scale, Moocs and their manifest destiny. You can’t mix AltSchool and Freire.”. “I Which Is To Say.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Trump University promised that the instructors for the real-estate and business seminars were “hand-picked” by Trump. Funnily enough, many of the very publications who consistently made fun of the offerings from Trump University rarely offer any critical analysis of the structure or content of MOOCs or coding bootcamps.

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Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

A must-read on Trump University from Ars Technica : “Trump University and the art of the get-rich seminar.” ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Here’s The Chronicle headline from then : “Professor Leaves a MOOC in Mid-Course in Dispute Over Teaching.”) ” Kudos.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 17, 2016

When it came to technology, a tripartite division had opened up. Face-to-face instruction was the privilege of the 1%, while the middle class made do with distance learning, and everyone else had versions of MOOCs. Having presented these four possible responses, I concluded with a quick recommendation about technology usage.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” There’s more MOOC news in the “business of education” section below. Devonshire Investors has acquired MOOC startup NovoEd. Pay writers.

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