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MOOCs Find Their Audience: Professional Learners and Universities

Edsurge

The media started calling this space MOOCs or Massive Open Online Courses, a term coopted from a 2008 experiment. The narrative in early days of MOOC space was around disruption of universities. Not all MOOC providers shared this narrative, but this was the one that the media stuck with it.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

And as Essa told Inside Higher Ed , the problems with the data and analysis also raised questions about education technology research more broadly: “Maybe one of the conclusions that could be derived from this is that we really don’t have a strong community to test and validate these claims? Uber for Education". “We They want the bundle.

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Essential Reading for Technology in Student Affairs v1.1

Mistakengoal.com

It supersedes her 2008 book chapter “ Why Youth (Heart) MySpace: The Role of Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life ” in Youth, Identity, and Digital Media. Friedman and the rest of the uncritical MOOC cheerleaders) or dystopian views.

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Essential Reading for Technology in Student Affairs

Mistakengoal.com

Friedman and the rest of the uncritical MOOC cheerleaders) or dystopian views. Rob Kling was a powerful voice in this conversation and his 1994 article “Reading ‘All About’ Computerization: How Genre Conventions Shape Non-Fiction Social Analysis” in The Information Society 10 (3) is a classic article on this topic.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Just a few weeks after Daphne Koller ’s announcement she was leaving the MOOC startup she co-founded, Coursera unveiled “ Coursera for Business ” this week, marking its pivot from “democratizing higher ed” to “ training corporate employees.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” “A new analysis from the Center for American Progress found more than two dozen minority-serving institutions would fail a graduation rate requirement for funding in the proposed House update to the Higher Education Act ,” Inside Higher Ed reports. .” MOOCs are out. ” The Business of Job Training.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via The Post and Courier : “ South Carolina ’s online charter schools: A $350 million investment with disappointing returns.” Stanford University’s Larry Cuban continues his analysis of behavioral management tool ClassDojo. ” Via NPR : “U.N.