Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Perhaps the district didn’t know what New York City learned when it audited its old data portal : it found that less than 3% of parents had ever logged in. There are a variety of reasons for this: language barriers, lack of Internet access, incompatible devices, lack of training. And everyone clicks and rages and snipes all over again.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Industry 145

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 16, 2013

There are eight conference strands covering a wide variety of timely topics, such as MOOCs, e-books, maker spaces, mobile services, embedded librarians, green libraries, doctoral student research, library and information center "tours," and more! We have 146 accepted conference sessions and ten keynote addresses.

Libraries 51

Libraries Conference MOOC E-rate 51

GoConqr

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

This will require a shift in the way teachers are trained too. The good news is that this process does seem to be happening slowly and so there is time for both students and teachers to adapt to the new ways learning is being organized. Teachers will assume the role of facilitators, which will require a change in how they are trained.”

Technology 75

Technology Trends Gamification Education 75

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.

Education 46

Education MOOC Company Report 46

Hack Education

MARCH 17, 2017

As CNN reporter Andrew Kaczynski noted on Twitter Tuesday, Eck, who is now a special assistant to Secretary DeVos, tweeted last November that Hamill should ‘stick to playing Han Solo’s short little b—-’ after Hamill tweeted criticism of the Trump administration.” Are MOOCs webinars? Are webinars now MOOCs?).

Education 46

Education MOOC Company Report 46

Hack Education

JUNE 2, 2017

Via The Washington Post : “A coding school where college grads train and work without spending a dime.” 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. The Business of Job Training.

Education 48

Education MOOC Report Company 48

Bryan Alexander

APRIL 12, 2016

Twitter activity during the hour was also very energetic, so I Storified it. Jim described it as a way to think through technology in order to empower the educational community beyond tech skills and training. He criticized the allure of universal solutions and totalizing narratives (the LMS, the MOOC). A: Jim hoped so.

Trends 41

Trends LMS Data MOOC 41

Bryan Alexander

APRIL 12, 2016

Twitter activity during the hour was also very energetic, so I Storified it. Jim described it as a way to think through technology in order to empower the educational community beyond tech skills and training. He criticized the allure of universal solutions and totalizing narratives (the LMS, the MOOC). A: Jim hoped so.

Trends 40

Trends LMS Data MOOC 40

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “Representative Ron DeSantis introduced a bill Tuesday that would allow states to set up a parallel accrediting system to direct federal student aid money to a range of career training programs.” ” “Whatever happened to the promise of online learning ?”

Education 45

Education Facebook Company Report 45

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Our Twitter hashtag is #stemx13, and we have some resources for publicizing at [link]. See you online! MP3 and MP4 versions will be available as well as the full Blackboard Collaborate recordings, although they take some days to process. Spreading the word : this a free event, so be sure to tell others!

STEM 47

STEM Maker Movement MOOC Common Core 47

Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

” (Probably worth checking out Sara Goldrick-Rab’s comments on Twitter about this one.). ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Big HR news about Coursera in the HR section below. Here’s the headline from Inside Higher Ed : “For-Credit MOOC: Best of Both Worlds at MIT ?”

Education 44

Education Coursera MOOC Kaplan 44

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Via The New York Times : “ Udacity , an Online Learning Start-Up, Offers Tech Job Trials.” 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.

Education 40

Education Company Data Pearson 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) But Posterous, if you’ll recall, was acquired by Twitter in 2012 and shut down one year later. Instead, they’ve re-branded as job training sites. They’re amazing.

Technology 62

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Hack Education

JUNE 17, 2016

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). That is, major social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter increasingly made it difficult for ThinkUp to work with their APIs. ” The Online Learning Consortium finds students prefer online learning (contrary to other surveys that find they do not.

Education 49

Education Coursera Microsoft Company 49

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?” ” Via Education Week : “For Principals, Student Sexting a Speeding ‘Freight Train,’ Full of Peril.”

Education 46

Education LMS Robotics E-rate 46

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The news literacy initiative is based in the Stanford History Education Group that Wineburg founded in 2002 to train teachers how to use primary sources and help students critically evaluate historical claims. My students are all about social media.

Social Media 40

Social Media Learning Facebook Analysis 40