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Online Learning's 'Greatest Hits'

Edsurge

MOOCs Recent virtual upstarts, MOOCs—massive open online courses—catapulted onto the global learning stage when Stanford University computer scientists Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig in 2011 came upon the bright idea of streaming their robotics lectures over the Internet. The term MOOC was coined by others in 2008.)

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School Work and Surveillance

Hack Education

Teachers, of course, know how to shift this physical setting — move the chairs around, for example. The company was founded in 1998 by UC Berkeley doctoral students who were concerned about cheating in the science classes they taught. The company works both ends of the plagiarism market.

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Robot Teachers, Racist Algorithms, and Disaster Pedagogy

Hack Education

Most, I'd wager, are facing severe funding shortages — the loss of tuition, dorm-room, and sportsball dollars, for example — as well as new expenses like PPE and COVID testing. Technology companies offer their products as the solution, and technology advocates promote the narrative of techno-solutionism. Let me fix that sentence.

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‘Our Technology Is Our Ideology’: George Siemens on the Future of Digital Learning

Edsurge

He’s credited with co-teaching the first MOOC in 2008, introduced the theory of “connectivism”—the idea that knowledge is distributed across digital networks—and spearheaded research projects about the role of data and analytics in education. He points to the learning management system as an example.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

At the time, I wrote about the importance of APIs; the issues surrounding data security and privacy; the appeal of platforms for users and businesses; and the education and tech companies who were well-positioned (or at least wanting) to become education platforms. ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs.

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A Top Proponent of Higher-Ed Disruption Moves to Put His Theories Into Practice

Wired Campus

Horn, a co-founder of the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation, stepped down Friday as director of its education program to begin working more directly with companies in the education market. Johnson, of the 2008 book Disrupting Class. “That’s classic disruption,” he says.

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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

Hack Education

” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity. The very next day, Apple shares hit $97.80, an all-time high for the company. Where would you plot the Segway, for example? (In Fantasy. .”

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