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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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2018

Unfortunately, most massive open online course (MOOC) platforms still feel like drafty lecture halls instead of intimate seminar rooms. I think we’ve seen this reemergence—unintentionally—in the form of MOOCs. I typically build MOOCs, but this spring, I designed an online program for a cohort of 16 nonprofit leaders.

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Online Learning MOOC Learning Case Study 137

Educator Innovator

MAY 12, 2014

To accomplish all of this, participants and facilitators will be working together as both learners and change agents in an open environment known as a Massive Open Online Collaboration (MOOC). 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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Wired Campus

APRIL 30, 2015

The hype around the free online courses called MOOCs has drawn millions of students, who are all essentially part of a teaching experiment of unprecedented scale. ” The report is the work of the MOOC Research Initiative, funded with more than $800,000 in grant support by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2023

Today’s online courses are evolved cousins of the early MOOC, or massive open online course. Earlier experiments did not prove as transformative as some advocates hoped, with few students completing the classes they started. The year of the MOOC may be long over. But learning online remains a hard nut to crack.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

This resulted in several of my students engaging in lengthy and demanding composition tasks. One group of junior high students who were very reluctant writers took it upon themselves to create their own guide in the form of a blog. Minecraft MOOC EVO Minecraft MOOC YouTube. Language Learning and Minecraft.

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Wiki MOOC Handbook Case Study 151

Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Avida is the husband of Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller, and one of the first board members of the company that helped put the spotlight on massive online open courses, or MOOCs. It will be some time before the public can decide for themselves whether Engageli meets that vision. But they are not done with higher education yet.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Research studies don’t provide strong evidence that synchronous learning universally leads to better student engagement and learning outcomes than asynchronous learning or vice versa. For example, most of the enrolled students in fully asynchronous MOOCs are adults, and even in this context, completion can be challenging.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 18, 2016

First of all, VR works for students of all ages and it can be used for almost every teaching subject. Secondly, the student engagement that it creates it’s immeasurable. Students retain information better, they learn faster, they collaborate more, and they have the chance to go through a unique, fascinating learning experience.

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Learning with 'e's

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

In this interview after his keynote, we enjoyed a wide ranging discussion around various theories of pedagogy, student engagement and participation, networjed learning, and the specific characteristics and practices that make a teacher effective in digitally mediated spaces.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 31, 2016

One of the most cost-effective means to create a more personalized and individualized learning experience for students is through the use of OpenCourseWare (OCW) and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC's). Once they choose their OCW course, students engage in the activities provided by that particular unit of study.

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Personalized Learning Learning Secondary Course 150

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

We could participate in a number of free Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs), including over a dozen on Chinese History from Harvard University. So my students would do Social Studies, not just read about it. One inspiration would be the entirely-student-run Online Model United Nations.

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The Principal of Change

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

When we focus our attention on real-time, up-to-the-second reporting on the portal, we elevate the false idols of scores and grades and devalue what really has an impact on learning: positive student-teacher relationships , relevance and student engagement. IMMOOC April 21, 2017 Focus on the “Learner”

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Conference MOOC Elementary Assessment 71

Gaggle Speaks

MARCH 25, 2015

Collaborative Learning, 21st Century Skills; Blending Learning, Student Engagement, MOOC; Flipped Classroom; Gamification; Big Data. I constantly play contrarian with our marketing team around using the latest education lingo: Project-Based Learning; Web 2.0; The list goes on and on. We recycle all terminology and ideas.

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Gaggle Speaks

MARCH 25, 2015

Collaborative Learning, 21st Century Skills; Blending Learning, Student Engagement, MOOC; Flipped Classroom; Gamification; Big Data. I constantly play contrarian with our marketing team around using the latest education lingo: Project-Based Learning; Web 2.0; The list goes on and on. We recycle all terminology and ideas.

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EdTech Differentiated Instruction Gamification MOOC 40

Learning with 'e's

MAY 2, 2019

Alternative modes Today, education has expanded beyond traditional learning spaces into distance education , blended learning, flipped classrooms , mobile learning, and online delivery through technologies such as MOOCs ( Massive Open Online Courses ). 2017) Can one-to-one initiative and BYOD in schools increase student engagement?

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EdTechSandyK

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Students may have tons of devices, but don''t know how to use them deeply beyond texting and recording. Regarding student use of technology, Mimi Ito says, "Students engage in friendship and interest-based activities. How do teachers manage the multiple platforms. They need academic intervention."

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2017

For example, I think some of the schools that have experimented a little the inverted [or flipped] classroom, where you have students engage with the lecture outside of the class time and then have more guided activities inside the classroom. I think technology's just a tool, and so technology alone isn't going to solve problems.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

An increasing number of educators are finding that collaborative, hands-on learning requires a different type of space than most traditional classrooms offer, and that the learning environment greatly impacts both pedagogy and student engagement.

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Trends Technology Robotics Report 28

Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 2, 2019

But how do they compete with resources like MOOCs and OERs that have made high quality course content from respected university professors available for free? When students started migrating towards used textbooks, rentals, MOOCs and OER due to the high prices of printed textbooks, it affected the revenues of traditional book publishers.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2021

While at edX Porter created the Open edX project, which has served more than 55 million learners taking massive open online courses, or MOOCs. But despite that high figure, research from MIT has found that on average, just over 3 percent of students who started a course finished it. “If

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GoConqr

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Educators will soon need to start thinking like game designers if they want to keep their students engaged. “To To win student attention, educators will soon need to start thinking like game designers.” Many universities, like Stanford, have caught on to that trend and are already offering courses and degrees in gamification.

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Technology Trends Gamification Education 75

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Students engaged with an Acuitus training program that combines computer-based learning with human mentors to compress 10 years of experience and learning into 5 months. The experiment was part of a DARPA program ambitiously called the Education Dominance Program, which awarded the company some $35 million.

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Educator Innovator

OCTOBER 7, 2015

is a platform that allows students to take notes synchronized with video. In other words, students can be viewing a video on half their screen while simultaneously taking notes on the other half. This is an innovative way to help students engage deeply with a text, as called for by the Standards. VideoNot.es

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Fractus Learning

MAY 19, 2016

All of the above engagement techniques humanize the online learning process, while also allowing the instructor to monitor the learning environment. Prompt Student Engagement , via group assignments, well thought out discussion board questions, live streamed lectures and virtual office hours. As online educators we can ….

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Online Learning Learning Course Adobe 42

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Smith, Director of Programs Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for STEM - Revolutionary or Evolutionary?

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STEM Maker Movement MOOC Common Core 47

The PL2C Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Display progression through the course in a clear, visual manner, such as units organized in a grid with numbers or icons that identify what order students should navigate the course. Provide course news or a celebratory feed at the top of your main page to highlight student engagement or quality work within the course.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2017

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. MOOCs continued to increase in number and attendance. By Stephen Downes, National Research Council. Now there are different ways things can be a ‘trend of the year’.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2017

Student engagement and retention mobile apps. Most of them offer some variation of the thesis that improving how “engaged” students are in their coursework and community will boost academic outcomes which will then increase retention. MOOCs or General Assembly for country X. Yes, this is a big problem.

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EdTech LMS Facebook Chegg 91

Hack Education

JANUARY 5, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). From the Amazon PR department : “ University of Oklahoma Expands Student Engagement with Alexa Skills.” “A TurboTax for student loan applications” according to Techcrunch, the company has raised $15.5 million total.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2016

This Mongolian Teenager Aced a MOOC. Now that I have seen the wide variety of spaces and situations in which our participants experienced their transformative moments, I am confident that some of my own best learning stories are still to come. Now He Wants to Widen Their Impact. Battushig Myanganbayar, MIT).

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Adaptive Learning MOOC Trends Report 76

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Class Central : “ TU Delft Students Can Earn Credit For MOOCs From Other Universities.” Via eSchool News : “Why chatbots are not the future of student engagement.” McCarthyism is back,” writes David Palumbo-Liu. .

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Hack Education

AUGUST 31, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Kevin Carey argues in Washington Monthly “Why More Colleges Should Treat Students Like Numbers ”: Students who log on to the LMS, download materials, click on lectures, and contribute to discussions are much less likely to drop out than students who don’t.

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Education Social Media Company Data 41

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

In 2013, on the heels of “the Year of the MOOC,” Barber released a report titled “An Avalanche is Coming,” calling for the “unbundling” of higher education. MOOCs are, no surprise, their own entry on this long list of awfulness. The Year of the MOOC". The New York Times declared 2012 “ the Year of the MOOC.”

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Via Education Dive : “ The Iron Yard and Code Fellows , have partnered with nonprofit financial literacy organization Operation HOPE to create a $100 million scholarship fund to spur minority and low-income student engagement in tech fields.”

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Education Report MOOC E-rate 40

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via George Veletsianos : “A large-scale study of Twitter Use in MOOCs.” ” Research finds there’s a " global achievement gap in MOOCs. Via Campus Technology : “ Harvard Tailoring the MOOC Experience With Adaptive Learning.”

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Education MOOC Data Elsevier 40

Hack Education

JANUARY 5, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ CSU signs deal to record, broadcast classroom lectures,” says the San Francisco Examiner. “Student engagement platform” ClearScholar has raised $1.25 Via Reuters : “Judge blocks law limiting incoming North Carolina governor’s power.”

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