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How Udacity Could Return to Its Higher Ed Roots

Edsurge

Udacity is one of the few edtech companies to gain “unicorn” status, meaning it is valued by investors at over $1 billion. Is the company a new kind of (unaccredited) university? These days the company does a little bit of all those things, but it doesn’t fit neatly into any of the categories. A publisher?

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What Happens When Ed-Tech Forgets? Some Thoughts on Rehabilitating Reputations

Hack Education

"The only thing that matters is the future," Levandoski told the magazine. This spyware extracts an incredible amount of information from students, including their biometric data, audio, and video, and then runs it through proprietary algorithms designed to identify suspicious behavior that might signal cheating.

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6 Benefits of Being Self-Taught

Fractus Learning

In a similar vein, it was Henry Ford’s own desire to understand how machines work (first pocket-watches, later gasoline-powered engines) that helped to pave the way for the Ford Motor Company. They may subscribe to magazines or journals, read books written by thought-leaders, attend talks and presentations, or simply sift through news online.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” There’s more on legal battles involving student loan companies in the business of financial aid section below. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Business Insider : “The YouTube Kids app has been suggesting a load of conspiracy videos to children.” How About $750,000 ?”

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

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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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

Hack Education

” – 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. The very next day, Apple shares hit $97.80, an all-time high for the company. The quotation is from 2012. Fantasy. .”

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Khan Academy redux

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

Those, if you remember, centered around this spoof video created by my colleagues John Golden and Dave Coffey. I’m in good company, as Keith Devlin is the first on that list and Veritasium’s Derek Muller is in there as well. As for the videos themselves, I’ve written about this elsewhere.