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Facebook Seems to Be Adding Video-Course Features. For Edtech, That Raises Old Fears.

Edsurge

Meta has said that it won’t collect fees on paid event transactions through 2023 to help small businesses recover from the pandemic. A “Facebook Classes Instructor” group shows roughly 3,100 people signed up to trial the program. For now, Meta isn’t taking a cut of live events. Meta’s offering appears to be more tied to live events, though.

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The future of classrooms

Learning with 'e's

This is due to the rapid proliferation of mobile technology, the disintermediation of traditional teacher and student roles, new trends such as MOOCs and the upsurge of user generated content on social media sites - all of which take learning away from previously familiar territory. Is he right?

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Good analysis of higher ed trends and strategy: Jon McGee’s _Breakpoint_

Bryan Alexander

That population is increasingly nonwhite: “By 2023, graduates of color will represent nearly half of all high school graduates… up from one-third in 2003.” The discussion of digital changes (76-82) touches on high points (cost, commodification, MOOCs), but comes to no conclusions or recommendations. ” (30).

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Good analysis of higher ed trends and strategy: Jon McGee’s _Breakpoint_

Bryan Alexander

That population is increasingly nonwhite: “By 2023, graduates of color will represent nearly half of all high school graduates… up from one-third in 2003.” The discussion of digital changes (76-82) touches on high points (cost, commodification, MOOCs), but comes to no conclusions or recommendations. ” (30).

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What should mathematics majors know about computing, and when should they know it?

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

Enjoy, and check the post-credit scene at the end where I add some updated thoughts for 2023. I’ve taken a MOOC on algorithms and read, in whole or in part, books and articles that contain significant discussions of computer science-y things like time complexity and NP-completeness.

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Revolution in Higher Education: chapter 4

Bryan Alexander

” Here DeMillo changes tack from neuroscience (chapter 3) and returns to technology, but not very much to MOOCs. Just using a clicker for formative assessment makes a big difference (2023) (paging Derek Bruff !). The focus now is technology for personalized learning, including data analytics.

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Khan Academy redux

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

Updates for 2023 The reason this article grabbed my attention when looking for something to repost, is that I'm thinking a lot these days about where extremely affluent people and organizations are putting their money towards improving education. In 2013 it was all about Khan Academy; in 2017, MOOCs; today the new hotness is AI.