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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) platforms are digital infrastructures that enable two or more groups to interact. Google gives a lot of money to similar sorts of groups, including many, many education-related ones.).

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The Role of Open Educational Resources (OER) in Making Education Available to All

A Principal's Reflections

OER ranges from highly structured college courses (MOOCs) to less structured curricula from colleges and other institutes of learning (OpenCourseWare a/k/a OCW), to free online textbooks, and everything in between. PIRG Panelist Nicole Allen discussed her work as Public Interest Research Group (PIRG)’s Textbook Advocate.

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What these teens learned about the Internet may shock you!

The Hechinger Report

But then their teacher, Will Colglazier, demonstrated how a couple more exploratory clicks—critically, beyond the site itself—revealed that the Employment Policies Institute is considered by the Center for Media and Democracy to be a front group created by lobbyists for the restaurant and hotel industries. “I

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

But other times, the scenes that were captured were taken out of context or these videos were purposefully weaponized (by conservative groups, for example, who encourage students to film their professors’ lectures and submit their names to “watch lists”). MOOCs are, no surprise, their own entry on this long list of awfulness.

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