Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Most, I'd wager, are facing severe funding shortages — the loss of tuition, dorm-room, and sportsball dollars, for example — as well as new expenses like PPE and COVID testing. Technology companies offer their products as the solution, and technology advocates promote the narrative of techno-solutionism. Let me fix that sentence.

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The Principal of Change

JANUARY 12, 2017

I would love your feedback and any examples of classrooms doing this already.). Discussing this with some educators today, they had a “matching” program with a company, that matched every dollar they raised, and yes, I would take that. (This is trying to look at something that is an obstacle, and creating an opportunity.

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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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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

During this 60 minute session, AdmitHub CEO Andrew Magliozzi will reveal insights from his company’s 2016 trial with Georgia State University, where a chatbot exchanged 185,000 messages with more than 3,100 students. Companies like Microsoft, Facebook and Google are all dipping their toes into virtual and augmented reality.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Usman Khaliq was an engineering student in northeastern Pakistan when he took his first MOOC. Between 2014 and 2016 Usman earned 21. complete multiple MOOCs. complete multiple MOOCs. The MOOC movement is frequently disparaged because completion rates are abysmally low. Rethinking the 5% Completion Rate.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Tom Webster, the VP of strategy at the market research firm Edison Research, argued that the report should be viewed as “an extremely effective piece of content marketing,” pointing to the number of slides that cite data about or by a portfolio company of Meeker’s employer, the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Smith Caulfield.

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 12, 2016

I asked Groom to describe the Domain of One’s Own movement’s state of the union in 2016. I asked about how Jim’s company, Reclaim Hosting , is doing. Mentions If This Then That as an empowering example, offering another metaphor of railroads. For example: Googling people to learn about them.

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 12, 2016

I asked Groom to describe the Domain of One’s Own movement’s state of the union in 2016. I asked about how Jim’s company, Reclaim Hosting , is doing. Mentions If This Then That as an empowering example, offering another metaphor of railroads. For example: Googling people to learn about them.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

This is the last public talk I’ll deliver in 2016, and I confess I am relieved (I am exhausted!) ” – 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. Virtual worlds in 2007, for example.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

I’ve called this “the Top Ed-Tech Trends,” but this has never been an SEO-optimized list of products that the ed-tech industry wants schools or parents or companies to buy (or that it claims schools and parents and companies are buying). No, fidget spinners were not a “top ed-tech trend” this year.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

— Stephen King (@StephenKing) October 3, 2016. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “Aftermath of the MOOC wars: Can commercial vendors support creative higher education ? “Education is going to be a powerful example of the potential of VR,” he said. Raise $146.1

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Chopra worked at the CFPB and, while there, “sued two for-profit-college companies – ITT Educational Services Inc. ” It’s now unclear, observers say, if the FTC can regulate companies like Google or Verizon. ” “Two assessment companies – Educational Testing Service and Data Recognition Corp.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Editor’s Note: ‘Tis the season of giving, eating and reflecting, a time to look back on 2016 and to make bold predictions about what next year may hold. radio and televisions in the early 20th century and online learning and MOOCs via the Internet in the early 21st century.) For example, California recently released a report with.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 5, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Via Mindwires Consulting’s Michael Feldstein : “Good Enough vs. Better Enough: The Macmillan Example.” “A TurboTax for student loan applications” according to Techcrunch, the company has raised $15.5 million total.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

I mean, the Cubs did win the World Series in 2016. ” In other words, we did not suddenly enter a period of “post-truth” in 2016. .” ” In other words, we did not suddenly enter a period of “post-truth” in 2016. The quackery in 2016 wasn’t new, in other words, but it was notable.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Either way, he’s gone too soon; we’ve lost too much , too many in 2016. pic.twitter.com/BBhsgwY2FZ — Audrey Watters (@audreywatters) August 1, 2016. Some cities and states are considering making computer science compulsory – in Chicago , Virginia , Queensland , for example. Read Mindstorms. Only “1.86

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Hack Education

MAY 26, 2016

Indeed, I can’t go anywhere these days – inside or outside the US, on- or offline – without hearing panicky questions and proclamations about November 2016, the upcoming Presidential Election, and what the hell is going on with Donald Trump. What are MOOCs, for example? ” The price tag for that: $35,000.

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Hack Education

JULY 20, 2018

” At least the e-cigarette company (which targets teens) offers a social-emotional learning curriculum, right? in 2016 on a student visa.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news in the credential section below. ” (State and Local) Education Politics.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2018

Kudos to the Houston Chronicle for the original reporting on this in 2016. awards debt collection contract to company with ties to DeVos.” ” Via Buzzfeed : “Here’s How A Student Loan Debt Relief Company Preyed On Its Customers.” ” The company: the Student Loan Assistance Center.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Pokémon Go, a free augmented reality game developed by Niantic (a company spun out of Google in 2015), became the most popular mobile game in US history this year. ” “ How Asian test-prep companies swiftly exposed the brand-new SAT.” This is part eight of my annual review of the year in ed-tech.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 18, 2017

She seemed to fail to grasp some of the basics of education policy – the difference between “ proficiency ” and “ growth ,” for example, and the federal rules surrounding disability rights and education. And this prompted me to update my list of education / technology companies that are ALEC members.).

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Hack Education

AUGUST 31, 2018

Prior to the department spending $6 million on iPads, Apple spent more than $5300 on meals and lodging for state Superintendent Mark Johnson and five other education officials to visit the company’s HQ. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). But Behind the Scenes, Gordon Gee Pulls Strings.”

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Hack Education

APRIL 3, 2017

And more importantly, to ascertain where some folks – those who issue press releases, for example – want the puck to head. It ignores what happens in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for example: the site of Harvard and MIT. We’re more likely to overlook the role that venture capital plays, for example.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Certainly “free” works well for cash-strapped schools.

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Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

“High school students will be allowed to carry mace in the 2016–2017 school year after the Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education agreed to remove prohibitive language and amend its policy,” the Salisbury Post reports. — Shane Goldmacher (@ShaneGoldmacher) May 10, 2016. Accreditation and Certification.

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Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Elsewhere in MOOC research… From Campus Technology : “Grouping MOOC Students by Communication Mode Doesn’t Help Completion.” ” More on MOOC (and related) research in the research section below. ” Try learning styles, maybe.

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Hack Education

JULY 15, 2016

.” The article notes that “The number of states planning to use the new [SBAC and PARCC] tests dropped from 45 in 2011 to 20 in 2016.” ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). “ Are MOOCs Forever ?” ” Google has released its 2016 Scholar Metrics.

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Hack Education

MARCH 17, 2017

” EdWeek’s Market Brief on “Implications for K–12 Companies in Trump’s Big Proposed Cuts to Ed. ” Last year , the Ugandan government decreed that company’s schools be shut down because they failed to meet education and sanitation requirements; Kenyan courts have also ordered the schools to close.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 13, 2016

2016 was, as the president of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation wrote earlier this month in Inside Higher Ed , a “ Pivotal Year for Accreditation.” Agents of Accreditation. Jobs for Grads. If you want a job as a software developer in the technology industry, you’ll need a college degree.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2016

There were several points in the presidential campaign that some pundits argued the Trump University scandal would torpedo Trump’s political aspirations: when news broke that Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi had sought a donation from Trump before nixing a fraud investigation into Trump University in her state, for example.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

On video games , for example – yes, that old canard. ” Oh sure sure, this isn’t exactly education technology news, except for the part where Khosla invests in education technology companies and his wife founded the open education organization CK–12. “Open.” ” The Business of Financial Aid. .”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

” I’ve looked at how for-profit colleges , MOOCs , and learn-to-code companies have tapped into these narratives in order to justify their products and services. Code.org is backed by a long list of technology companies – from AT&T to Amazon to Facebook to Google to Verizon. (I’ll Bootcamp or Bust.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 26, 2016

Via Education Week : “The founder and former CEO of an online public school that educates thousands of Pennsylvania students pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal tax fraud, acknowledging he siphoned more than $8 million from The Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School through for-profit and nonprofit companies he controlled.”

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Hack Education

MAY 27, 2016

On Thursday, the judge gave Google the victory , ruling that the company’s use of the Java API fell under fair use provisions. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). MOOCs for credit ! For more on MOOCs for credit, see the “MOOCs” section above. Go, School Sports Team!

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Black preschool children, for example, are 3.6 Take, for example, ProPublica ’s article on Donald Trump’s son-in-law and “consigliere”: “ The Story Behind Jared Kushner’s Curious Acceptance into Harvard.”). times more likely to be suspended than white preschool children. ”). .”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Wayne Johnson, the head of the department’s financial aid division and a former executive at a student loan company , says that those “non-traditional” servicers could include companies like Visa , Amazon , or Goldman Sachs. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” These headlines just kill me.

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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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