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

Hack Education

And it doesn't help, of course, that there is, in general, a repudiation of history within Silicon Valley itself. By "many people," of course I mean Jared and Ivanka. We already have, of course. Do the math there on the per course costs.) The former would pay $200 a course; the latter $250.

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More on the Cost Trap and Inclusive Access

Iterating Toward Openness

What do you think the whole MOOC thing George Siemens and I and others was about? Beginning in 2003 and continuing consistently thereafter I have depicted learning resources as words in a conversation , and applied the logic of language to the logic of reuse. We are focused on the advantages of OER-enabled pedagogy.

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The Greatest EdTech Generation Ever – LIVE Blog of Justin Reich’s Keynote

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In fact, if you Google “rainbow starburst bracelet” and the official video from the company has been viewed a fraction of the times. As a researcher, Justin has been carrying this concept into his work with MOOCs. In reality, a course is just one node in the network of possibilities for how to make sense of the content.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via the Coursera blog : “New mobile features: Transcripts, notes, and reminders.” " It’s lovely to see the big innovation from the MOOC startups in 2017 involves the learning management system. The adaptive learning company has raised $16 million total.

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Education Technology and the Year of Wishful Thinking

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In 2005, Joan Didion published The Year of Magical Thinking , which chronicles her husband’s death in December 2003, shortly after their daughter had fallen into septic shock and been placed an induced coma. That’s not what Didion meant to do, of course. Of course it did. Fads fade, of course. Or MOOCs even.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via Inside Higher Ed : “Frustrated with the slow resolution of loan forgiveness claims at the Department of Education, two borrowers have filed a lawsuit against Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and loan servicing company Navient in federal court.” ” “Whatever Happened To MOOCs ?”