Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

TurnItIn became a huge business, bought and sold several times over by private equity firms since 2008: first by Warburg Pincus, then by GIC, and then, in 2014, by Insight Partners — the price tag for that sale: $754 million. These proctoring tools gather and analyze far more data than just a student's words, than their responses on an exam.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

Yet, when I graduated from college in 2008, I didn’t know this field existed. Check out the list of global MOOC platforms curated by Class Central, but realize there are entirely different ecosystems of platforms that specialize in corporate training or adaptive learning. alone, there are 13,000 instructional designers.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 19, 2017

She obtained her PhD in Information Science from the University of North Texas in 2001 and taught in the Department of Library and Information Studies at the State University of New York in Buffalo from 2001-2008 before joining the SLIS in August 2008. She also held professional positions in public and special libraries.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

At the time, I wrote about the importance of APIs; the issues surrounding data security and privacy; the appeal of platforms for users and businesses; and the education and tech companies who were well-positioned (or at least wanting) to become education platforms. ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs.

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Mistakengoal.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

It supersedes her 2008 book chapter “ Why Youth (Heart) MySpace: The Role of Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life ” in Youth, Identity, and Digital Media. Friedman and the rest of the uncritical MOOC cheerleaders) or dystopian views. Serving the same purpose but in the more narrow niche of U.S.

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Mistakengoal.com

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Friedman and the rest of the uncritical MOOC cheerleaders) or dystopian views. danah boyd ‘s 2008 book chapter “ Why Youth (Heart) MySpace: The Role of Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life ” in Youth, Identity, and Digital Media is a must-read in this area.

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Fractus Learning

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

I am not able to use in my day-job classes very much of the rhizomatic, community as curriculum techniques that I value so much in my online, connectivist MOOCs, but—and here is the point—I am still able to integrate concepts drawn from complexity theory into my otherwise standard classroom without getting into too much trouble with my institution.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity. In 2008, ever hopeful, Gartner insisted that “This thing certainly isn’t dead and maybe it will yet blossom.” Nightmarish, yes.

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Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

” Here DeMillo changes tack from neuroscience (chapter 3) and returns to technology, but not very much to MOOCs. The focus now is technology for personalized learning, including data analytics. That’s not where the chapter begins. In this chapter DeMillo returns to one major theme, broadening access to higher education.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

.” “Two assessment companies – Educational Testing Service and Data Recognition Corp. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Inside Higher Ed : “Humans, the Latest MOOC Feature.” Data, Privacy, and Surveillance. The states in question: Texas and Nevada. million total.

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Learning with 'e's

APRIL 16, 2015

Well, for me EDUPUNK (all caps, like EDUCAUSE) was one of those outlandish metaphors I threw out there to try and explain the state of educational technology back in 2008. Don''t get me wrong, it wasn''t like MOOCs or anything, but it was a pretty strong response from a simple blog post. What is the secret behind the success of MOOCs?

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Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2017

“The Year of the MOOC” – I was summoned to Palo Alto, California for a small gathering to discuss the future of teaching, learning, and technology. With enough data and some machine learning, you can identify – statistically – the most common obstacles. Let me begin with a story. Efficiency.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 1, 2016

’” Online Education, Beyond “MOOCs” Via Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill : “The Remarkable Transformation at UF Online.” More on the “gig economy” from Data & Society.). Data, Privacy, and Surveillance. How its profits mostly go to wealthy executives rather than workers ?

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Hack Education

JANUARY 18, 2017

The Department of Education , under the auspices of “transparency,” promises more access to data about financial aid. ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ MOOC enrollment drops at HarvardX and MITx after free certifications disappear ,” says Techcrunch.

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Hack Education

JUNE 23, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via The Post and Courier : “ South Carolina ’s online charter schools: A $350 million investment with disappointing returns.” Congrats to the education company Road Scholar for appearing in this Gizmodo story about how companies surreptitiously collect your data.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via the Iowa City Press-Citizen : “ Iowa families foregoing classroom for virtual school.” Acumen “senior innovation associate” writes about +Acumen in Edsurge : “The Flip Side of Abysmal MOOC Completion Rates ?

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Department of Education Launches New English Learner Data Story.” ” “Data story” is a fancy way of saying “website.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). It’s baaaaack: “Return of the MOOC ,” The City Journal tells us. Upgrades and Downgrades.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 17, 2016

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. Maybe the data and analyses reveal previously hidden flaws, and things just aren’t as bad as we thought. And I asked them to support people’s rights to own their data.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Clayton Christensen and Michael Horn, for example, predicted in their 2008 book Disrupting Class that by 2019 half of all high school classes would be taught via the Internet. Vive la MOOC Révolution. In October of this year, Clarissa Shen, Udacity’s Chief Operating Officer, called MOOCs “ a failed product.”

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Hack Education

JUNE 22, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). To borrow from Jello Biaffra, “MOOCs aren’t dead, they just deserve to die.” ” From Edsurge : “How Blockbuster MOOCs Could Shape the Future of Teaching.” ” There’s more MOOC-related news in the nanodegree section below.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Class Central : “ XuetangX : A Look at China’s First and Biggest MOOC Platform.” Keep that in mind when you see Course Report’s data touted, cheerleading the coding bootcamp trend.). Data, Privacy, and Surveillance. Nice work, ed-tech.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Department of Education this week released new federal loan data showing that 4.6 MOOCs are out. For your “Netflix for education files”: I liked this tweet because it's good to be reminded that huge unaccountable companies use our personal data to dunk on us both literally and figuratively. More via Techcrunch.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 6, 2016

The Rebranding of MOOCs. Remember 2012 , “ The Year of the MOOC? Remember in 2012 when the media wrote about MOOCs with such frenzy, parroting all these marketing claims and more and predicting that MOOCs were poised to “ end the era of expensive higher education ”? MOOCs are not particularly "open."

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Hack Education

JULY 22, 2016

.” From the Republican National Convention: TurnItIn was pleased , I’m sure, to be invoked many times following Melania Trump ’s convention speech, which plagiarized passages from Michelle Obama ’s 2008 speech. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Data, Privacy, and Surveillance.

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