2008 Data MOOC Report 
TeachThought - Learn better.
MAY 12, 2020
MOOCs are great ideas, but assessment and feedback loops and certification are among the many issues holding them back. Comparing an unsupported MOOC from 2008 to an in-person college experience isn’t apples to apples. Open Curriculum. And anymore, they end being the punchline of edtech jokes, somehow.
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 20, 2019
Adaptive Learning As with a pinwheel set in motion, insights from many disciplines—artificial intelligence, cognitive science, linguistics, educational psychology and data analytics—have come together to form a relatively new field known as learning science, propelling advances in a new personalized practice—adaptive learning.
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Hack Education
APRIL 30, 2020
Me personally, I don't want the future of education to be more monitored, data-mined, analyzed, predicted, molded, controlled. Is it the vast corpus of data that the company has amassed — decades of essays and theses and Wikipedia entries that it uses to assess student work? I don't want education to look that way now, but it does.
Edsurge
DECEMBER 21, 2017
Indeed, while colleges and universities continue to struggle financially, the dark days of 2008 seem like a distant memory for most of them. In a report, the agency cited constrained revenue growth in tuition and uncertainty in federal policy. But the prospects for 2018 are not looking so great.
Hack Education
SEPTEMBER 3, 2020
TurnItIn became a huge business, bought and sold several times over by private equity firms since 2008: first by Warburg Pincus, then by GIC, and then, in 2014, by Insight Partners — the price tag for that sale: $754 million. These proctoring tools gather and analyze far more data than just a student's words, than their responses on an exam.
Edsurge
JULY 20, 2017
A 2016 report funded by the Gates Foundation found that in the U.S. Yet, when I graduated from college in 2008, I didn’t know this field existed. Finally, share your data, your lessons, and your failures with the broader learning design community when possible. alone, there are 13,000 instructional designers.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 9, 2017
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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