Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Edmodo was one of the early stars of the most recent resurgence in ed-tech startup founding and funding (circa 2008 onward, that is). It may be the hardware or the operating system (OS), even a web browser or other underlying software, as long as the program code is executed in it. The company has raised some $77.5

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Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

Of course I have to start with MOOCs. Sustainable business models for MOOCs will emerge (this may mean changing the way we think of the course part of the MOOC acronym). We started to see MOOC like offerings emerge last year involving a fee for entry (a considerably lower fee than for the same traditional course).

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2017

In Silicon Valley, the non-profit Zero 1: The Art and Technology Network , places artists in large tech companies to work alongside engineers designing products and software for the future. Forwarding looking enterprises like FaceBook and. Related: Can the arts get students to college?

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

It’s an intense research project that usually tops out at about 75,000 words, written over the course of four to six weeks. Of course, if you look for those education technology writers who are independent from venture capital, corporate or institutional backing, or philanthropic funding, there is pretty much only me.).

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Nik Peachey

MARCH 24, 2008

Nik's Top 10 Tools as at 20 March 2008 Blogger : This is my basic essential survival tool for writing my blogs. I was drawn in by an increasing amount of course design work that I get related to it and a fascination with the interface and the illusion of 3D. then it's a great place to look.

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Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

Of course I have to start with MOOCs. Sustainable business models for MOOCs will emerge (this may mean changing the way we think of the course part of the MOOC acronym). We started to see MOOC like offerings emerge last year involving a fee for entry (a considerably lower fee than for the same traditional course).

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MOOC Technology Education Online Learning 32

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2019

Their message was simple: Think creatively about hardware, much like people think about software. Google, a newly public business, reported a mere $6 million in revenue at the end of 2005. I put the idea of “making” on the cover of Forbes in 2008 , calling Dougherty the “Tom Paine” of the revolution of building it yourself.

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

I recently revisited the central prediction of the influential 2008 book, Disrupting Class – that the growth in computer-based delivery of education will accelerate swiftly until, by 2019, half of all high school classes will be taught over the Internet – in two blog posts ( here and here ). public high schools (42.5

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

I recently revisited the central prediction of the influential 2008 book, Disrupting Class – that the growth in computer-based delivery of education will accelerate swiftly until, by 2019, half of all high school classes will be taught over the Internet – in two blog posts ( here and here ). public high schools (42.5

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EdTech Tablets Policies E-rate 150

Edsurge

MAY 30, 2019

He’s the guy who coined the term MOOC, short for Massive Open Online Course, which then was a reference to multiplayer video games. Yeah, I quite disagree,” added Maria Andersen, CEO and co-founder of Coursetune, a company that makes software designed to help colleges redesign their curriculum. Oh, I think absolutely.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

In 2008, after her column "Why I Let My 9 Year Old Ride the Subway Alone" landed her on every talk show from The Today Show to Dr. Phil, Lenore founded the book and blog “Free-Range Kids.” During 2020, WLS is finding new ways to help teachers make the shift to remote learning, including 5-day virtual teacher courses.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

” It’s now unclear, observers say, if the FTC can regulate companies like Google or Verizon. ” Carl Straumsheim writes that “One of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ’s most popular massive open online courses is adding a feature not seen in any of its other humanities MOOCs: instructors grading essays.”

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Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2017

So instead of a zeppelin, we got to ride in one of Google’s self-driving cars, which was of course the project that Thrun had been working on when he gave his famous TED Talk in 2011 – and that, in turn, was where he heard Salman Khan give his famous TED Talk. Efficiency. That’s the goal of the self-driving car.

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Iterating Toward Openness

DECEMBER 3, 2015

The internet’s early designers were not trying to facilitate the creation of a Google, Facebook, Amazon, WordPress, Wikipedia, or OpenCourseWare. As a backwards chain: before faculty can choose to replace the commercial resources in their courses with open educational resources, there must first be open educational resources.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Or the company will have to start charging for the software. There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security. And “free” doesn’t last. Um, they do.)

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 21, 2016

” Devschool did have four stars on Course Report , a Yelp-like review site for coding bootcamps. Keep that in mind when you see Course Report’s data touted, cheerleading the coding bootcamp trend.). ” “ University of Michigan Turns Courses Into Games,” says Edsurge. Through an LMS. Sounds super fun.

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Hack Education

JUNE 22, 2018

“The Trump administration is committing violence against children ,” says UVA professor James Coan in The Washington Post – that is, of course, by separating them from their parents and placing them in jail. Albans and Sidwell Friends – announce they will stop offering Advanced Placement courses.”

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