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

DECEMBER 21, 2021

And it was just a few years after the launch of the first MOOCs, putting the online higher ed market newly in the spotlight as it continued its steady growth. This skills-based hiring trend has real momentum and is also evidenced in analysis of employer job postings and other data sources.

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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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Bryan Alexander

JUNE 30, 2021

” There is also some good, early commentary and analysis from EdSurge and Trace Urdan. As Paul Fain put it , “MOOCs have become OPMs.” ” Well-placed source on 2U's acquisition of edX for $800M — "It simply formalizes what we knew: MOOCs have become OPMs." " [link].

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Edsurge

MAY 4, 2022

Last year marked the first time that the majority of new courses launched by Coursera weren’t from universities, according to analysis by Dhawal Shah, founder of the MOOC discovery platform Class Central. Entry-level industry certificates are receiving a lot of attention these days.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 8, 2012

He also works on the design of information/reasoning systems for intelligence analysis. His current research is focused on the use of different media to teach and communicate mathematics to diverse audiences.

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techieMusings

MAY 19, 2016

Sophomores have the opportunity to spend a period of their day learning through a MOOC of their choosing. Their MOOC worktime is an assigned period within their school day. When students are in their MOOC course, they all report to the open learning space, as in the pictures below. Math Rotation Model. Conclusion.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2018

As MOOCs surged in popularity from 2012 to 2015, universities, nonprofits, schools and companies all jumped into the game of developing online courses, and giving them away—often at the promise of no cost—to the world. Today, few higher-ed institutions are able to sustain the ongoing costs associated with producing and running MOOCs.

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 18, 2016

Jon McGee’s Breakpoint (2015, Johns Hopkins) offers a very solid, useful, and accessible analysis of current trends in higher education. The discussion of digital changes (76-82) touches on high points (cost, commodification, MOOCs), but comes to no conclusions or recommendations.

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 18, 2016

Jon McGee’s Breakpoint (2015, Johns Hopkins) offers a very solid, useful, and accessible analysis of current trends in higher education. The discussion of digital changes (76-82) touches on high points (cost, commodification, MOOCs), but comes to no conclusions or recommendations.

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Wired Campus

DECEMBER 21, 2015

Concerns about Yik Yak and analysis of MOOCs and online teaching were among the most popular stories this past year on our Wired Campus blog. And while massive open online courses have largely fallen out of the national headlines, three of the top 10 articles in 2015 involved MOOCs (in one case, charting their fade from prominence).

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2020

Integrating Learning and Work in Service of Adult Learners Adult learners are typically driven by career-related motivations: according to one analysis, 70 percent of adult learners say that gaining skills and knowledge directly related to the workplace is essential when choosing where to enroll.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

The Evolution of MOOCs: Six Years Later : Are MOOCs still around? Now, coding, data analytics and analysis are taking humanities subjects like history and literature in a whole new direction. Higher Ed 11:00 a.m. Dhawal Shah, CEO and founder of Class Central, has spent the last six years tracking them. Higher Ed 11:00 a.m.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2017

As the bubbly enthusiasm in the democratizing power of platforms like Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and Khan Academy quietly wanes, we’ve seen more attention to digital inequity like the homework gap and gender discrimination in coding careers. Equitable: An analysis by John Hansen and Justin Reich of U.S.

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techieMusings

MAY 19, 2016

Sophomores have the opportunity to spend a period of their day learning through a MOOC of their choosing. Their MOOC worktime is an assigned period within their school day. When students are in their MOOC course, they all report to the open learning space, as in the pictures below. Math Rotation Model. Conclusion.

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Hack Education

JULY 7, 2017

” Some of these experimental sites included MOOCs and coding bootcamps. ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Class Central’s Dhawal Shah, writing in Edsurge : “ MOOCs Find Their Audience: Professional Learners and Universities.” State and Local) Education Politics.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2016

This project – something I’ve done every year since 2010 – aims to serve as an in-depth analysis of the noteworthy events and products and politics and financing and tries to piece together the narratives and ideologies that drive ed-tech. Who’s Funding MOOCs in 2016? Who’s Funding Job Placement Startups?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2019

In this analysis, EdSurge counts all venture investments in U.S. Our analysis excludes companies whose primary business is to offer loans and happens to serve students (like Social Finance, which raised $500 million earlier this year). Our analysis for the first half of 2019 only looks at U.S.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 14, 2016

If people were allowed to change names of things to get around laws, I could offer a degre, with one e,” says Russ Poulin, director of policy and analysis for WCET, a nonprofit promoting e-learning programs. State officials eventually changed the rules to include an exemption for MOOCs and other courses that were free or low-cost.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2019

2018 Edtech Funding Breakdown In this annual year-end analysis, EdSurge counts all venture investments in U.S. Once upon a time, she notes, “MOOCs were supposed to displace higher education. Now many MOOCs are embedded within these institutions.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

” (Its MOOC competitor edX also announced this year that many of its courses would no longer be free.) Vive la MOOC révolution. The data analysis and surveillance that are at the core of “smart cities” will surely include education data. It upped the price of its “nanodegrees.”

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 1, 2019

A course that implements the relevant learning science but is completely missing a relationship with a caring faculty member (looking at you, MOOCs) is going to fall short of its potential.

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Learning with 'e's

JUNE 11, 2015

The synopsis reads: With the success of open access publishing, Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and open education practices, the open approach to education has moved from the periphery to the mainstream. Clearly, the tensions he identifies require some analysis.

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Linways Technologies

JANUARY 6, 2023

In today’s examination system, when we consider the bloom taxonomy, bottom-level memorization occupies a dominant place, while comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation are of less importance. Internship experiences, adding MOOCs, and Co-Curricular experiences are some other methods to assess students.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Some nonprofit colleges that produce MOOCs, or Massive Open Online Courses, have experimented with different production methods. One tradeoff is that because the videos are more expensive to produce, updating them might come at a higher cost as well.

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Wired Campus

APRIL 23, 2015

Patterson, the author of the paper and a doctoral candidate in policy analysis and management at the university, says online courses and degree programs can provide opportunities for students who may not otherwise have access to higher education, but distraction and procrastination throw up barriers to their success. MOOCs Online Courses'

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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. How can colleges and universities share courses online? That is, can students at one institution take a class taught by faculty at another? It’s a form of inter-institutional collaboration.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Our analysis highlights a world in which learning is increasingly more digital, delivered when it is needed, and done in shorter and less structured ways than in the past. These dynamics are at the center of what my colleagues and I have been studying in our recent research with employers exploring this new landscape for workplace learning.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 2, 2016

The company’s platform gets rid of the need for schools to make their own data systems or rely on multiple products to perform data analysis. think they’ve come up with a solution—a text analysis tool that provides automated feedback on a learner’s notes and then aggregates that data for instructors. But entrepreneurs behind Comprend.io

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 27, 2015

Self-guided MOOC. Traditional MOOC. Traditional Concept-Mapping (teacher-given strategy– “fishbone” cause-effect analysis , for example). Face-to-Face Driver blended learning. Rotation blended learning. Flex Blended Learning. “ Online Lab” blended learning. Sync Teaching. HyFlex Learning.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Khan, MOOCs, boot camps, career academies, even what is seen as enrollment “swirl” in community college courses reflect the demand for just-in-time, just-enough learning, often focused on achieving specific competencies. Competencies are the starting point for defining learning pathways that lead to well-defined achievements.

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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 ).

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2017

In this annual year-end analysis, EdSurge counts all venture investments in U.S. MOOC companies typically account for the bump in the “Post-Secondary” category, but aside from Coursera’s $64 million Series D round, few other companies focused in higher education scored a large deal. Source: EdSurge. Source: EdSurge.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2021

Data analysis from New America shows that half of adults with a short-term certificate who are employed earn $30,000 or less per year. In focus groups for her research, many people who participated in short courses said that their relatively brief classroom time did not prepare them for work as well as did actual on-the-job experience.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Just a few weeks after Daphne Koller ’s announcement she was leaving the MOOC startup she co-founded, Coursera unveiled “ Coursera for Business ” this week, marking its pivot from “democratizing higher ed” to “ training corporate employees.”

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

To be successful, the underlying analysis must be grounded in an appreciation for the structural aspects of competitive advantage, on the one hand, and an understanding of the structure of the targeted educational industry sector, on the other. Time will tell whether these changes were too little, too late.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

When the AP United States history students at Aragon High School in San Mateo California, scanned the professionally designed pages of www.minimumwage.com , most concluded that it was a solid, unbiased source of facts and analysis. This isn’t just a problem with kids,” said Wineburg.

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