Hack Education

MAY 25, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). MOOCs are back in the headlines again. Via Edsurge : “The Second Wave of MOOC Hype Is Here, and It’s Online Degrees.” ” From the Google blog : “ Google Science Fair 2018 : Resources for educators to get ideas flowing.”

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

The free assessments include Google Docs assessments to copy and digital rubrics to download. Using everyday digital content, the COR paper and online assessments directly connect to the questions posed in SHEG’s study and engage learners in credibility decision-making around three COR Competencies: Who’s behind the information?

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Via Edsurge : “5 Ways MOOC -Based Degrees Are Different From Other Online Degrees.” ” Not listed: other online degrees simply aren’t hyped the way MOOCs are. “ Does OER Actually Improve Learning? of Washington.”

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Hack Education

JUNE 23, 2017

Google ’s chairman Eric Schmidt praises Trump. Via Inside Higher Ed : “The British government releases the results … of its new three-tiered rating system of teaching quality at universities.” Via Buzzfeed : “ Betsy DeVos Picked A Student Loan CEO To Run The Student Loan System.” ” Phew!

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

For nearly 30 years, Medicaid has helped school systems cover costs for special education services and equipment, from physical therapists to feeding tubes. ” The Department of Education has rehired student loan debt collectors fired by the Obama Administration: Enterprise Recovery Systems and Navient-owned Pioneer Credit Recovery.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 18, 2017

” From the press release : “Treasury and Education Announce Progress Toward Multi-Year Income Certification System for Student Loan Borrowers in Income-Driven Repayment Plans.” Via the IEEE Spectrum : “How the Pioneers of the MOOC Got It Wrong.” ” Yes, the department is now on GitHub.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 31, 2018

” That is, three campuses in the University of Puerto Rico system. His wife is also the founder of the OER organization CK12. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Adweek : “ Google Is Collecting Your Data – Even When Your Phone Isn’t in Use.” Because of course.

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Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

The US Department of Education released its “ #GoOpenDistrict Launch Packet ,” encouraging schools to use OER. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Elsewhere in MOOC research… From Campus Technology : “Grouping MOOC Students by Communication Mode Doesn’t Help Completion.”

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Hack Education

JULY 27, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news from Edsurge in the “job training” section below. There’s more MOOC news from Edsurge in the “job training” section below. ” Via Bloomberg : “Inside Google ’s Shadow Workforce.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. Clickers” are definitely not new — indeed, in my research for Teaching Machines , I found examples of classroom response systems dating back to the 1950s.

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Hack Education

MAY 20, 2016

Republican lawmakers back bill that would substantially cut tuition and revenue , and seek more student diversity, at five system campuses, four of which are minority-serving institutions.” And The Next Web headline makes for… something: “ Facebook and Google could be allowed to award university degrees.”

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Hack Education

MARCH 16, 2018

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill : “If At First You Don’t Succeed, Try To Be An OPM : Conversion of for-profits and MOOCs.” ” There’s some Udacity-related MOOC news in the job training section below.

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “The Department of Education last week outlined changes to civil rights investigations that advocates fear will mean less consistent findings of systemic discrimination at colleges.” Here’s the headline from Inside Higher Ed : “For-Credit MOOC: Best of Both Worlds at MIT ?”

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Via Alternet : “ Gavin Grimm Wants To Fix The Education System That Failed Him.” ” When you hear someone invoke New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina as a model, do remember what happened to all the Black teachers … Via the AP : “ Philadelphia moves to retake control of city school system.” So I dunno.

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Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Historically black universities have been dropped from a controversial North Carolina bill slashing tuition at certain institutions to $500, but worries about the legislation’s effects remain high at two universities still facing tuition cuts – and across the state system.”

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Also via The New York Times : “ Google Faces Internal Backlash Over Handling of Sexual Harassment.” ” Also via The New York Times : “ Google Employees Stage Worldwide Walkout.” president to retire in wake of football death.”

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” MOOCs are dead , according to Udacity ’s VP. ” Never one to let a good MOOC story pass them by, Edsurge repeats the story. “MOOCs Are ”Dead.“ “ What’s Next? Uh-oh,” writes John Warner in IHE.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Via E-Literate : “ Hawai’i Senate Bill: Would mandate OER material for all U Hawai’i system courses.” ” And later in the week, an update : “Hawai’i Senate OER Bill Update: Amended language saves the day.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”).

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Hack Education

MAY 27, 2016

And speaking of copyrighting a language of a warlike people, the Oracle v Google case had its closing arguments this week. 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”).

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Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Via the Providence Journal : “Three teachers have resigned from Blackstone Valley Prep after the charter school confirmed allegations that they posted hurtful messages about some of their students” into a Google Doc shared with the entire school. “Can U.S.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

” “ Google Is Being Investigated By Missouri Attorney General,” Fortune reports. Oh and look at this: “Google Critic [Peter] Thiel Gave Money to Official Probing Search Giant,” Bloomberg reports. ” “Whatever Happened To MOOCs ?” Virtual Schools Dish Out the Dough.”

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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 21, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” The LA Times asks , “ In this digital self-help age, just how effective are MasterClass ’s A-list celebrity workshops?” “Students who can’t afford uniforms in New Orleans all-charter-system are routinely barred from attending school.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

Via The New York Times : “ Google , in Post-Obama Era, Aggressively Woos Republicans ” – so enjoy that Google Certification, educators. Via Education Week : “ Mississippi Attorney General Sues Google Over Student-Data Privacy.” ” That’d be Hugo Barra , a former Google exec.

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Hack Education

MAY 26, 2017

I really like the part where she compares those who defend the current education system to “flat-earthers.” Keeps Obama Plan to Streamline Loan System.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Slate : “ The New Diploma Mills.” How Google is ruining the Web.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Department of Education Announces Requirements for New Federal Loan Servicing System.” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Google announced it was cutting jobs in its Google Fiber division. And Google has put plans to expand Fiber to more cities on hold. ” More via IHE.

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