Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). It’s baaaaack: “Return of the MOOC ,” The City Journal tells us. There’s some (sorta) MOOC-related news in the venture funding section below. Because MOOCs on an airplane proved to be such an effective mode of instruction.

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APRIL 3, 2017

An advocacy for libertarian politics – think Peter Thiel (a Stanford graduate) now advising Donald Trump. Turns out that “free” might not be the best business model for a for-profit company, particularly one that cannot rely on advertising the same way that other “free” products like Facebook and Google can.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Facebook Argument : Students consider the relative strength of evidence that two users present in a Facebook exchange. News on Facebook : Students identify the blue checkmark that distinguishes a verified Facebook account from a fake one.

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JUNE 2, 2017

” Via Chalkbeat : “For Betsy DeVos and her former advocacy group, the future of education means ‘ personalization ,’ including virtual schools.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Here’s a link to all the stories in Slate’s series on online credit recovery programs.

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APRIL 13, 2018

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before Congress this week about privacy, data, monopoly power, and regulations. And there’s more Facebook-related news in several of the sections below. ” Via The Verge : “ Facebook -backed lawmakers are pushing to gut privacy law.” (National) Education Politics.

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AUGUST 26, 2016

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). “Why America’s MOOC pioneers have abandoned ship” by Jonathan Rees. “ MOOCs Are Dead. “Mark Zuckerberg Sells $95 Million Worth Of Facebook Shares For Charity,” says The Huffington Post. Became A Pop Culture Phenomenon.”

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OCTOBER 28, 2016

.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “A divided federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld a lower court’s ruling that a Minnesota community college was justified when it kicked a student out of a nursing program because of Facebook comments administrators deemed to be unprofessional and threatening to fellow students.”

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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 Training Ed-Tech.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2016

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). And I’m not sure if Udacity now better fits here in this for-profit higher ed section, but there’s news about it in the MOOC section above. Data-mining a Facebook group. ” And speaking of “post-truth,” Facebook.

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MARCH 10, 2017

” Via the BBC : “ Facebook Reports BBC to Police Over Investigation Into Child Sex Images.” ” More on this story and concerns about how Facebook moderates content via Techcrunch. “New study raises concerns about impact of automated social media advocacy on education coverage,” says Alexander Russo.

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JULY 13, 2018

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” (This is a good example of how ed-tech advocacy-posing-as-journalism operates – you get funded by an organization and then you get to “break the news” about that organization. ” The virtual charter school in question: ECOT.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Economic Boom Isn’t Helping Some Student-Loan Debtors , Advocacy Group Says.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). “The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative , founded by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, pledged $3.3

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JUNE 17, 2016

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Via The Hechinger Report : “ Virtual charter schools need ‘bold action’ for change, says national charter school advocacy group.” .” Via the AP : “2 ex- El Paso schools administrators guilty in testing scam.”

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DECEMBER 29, 2017

Nor has it stopped Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg from making “personalized learning” a centerpiece of his venture philanthropy firm’s education work or from vowing to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on it. Whatever “it” is. So is “personalized learning” really a “trend”?

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