Bryan Alexander
FEBRUARY 6, 2015
A Facebook group, Save The Wisconsin Idea , has been organized. We’ve seen this from other states during the first few years after the 2008 financial crisis. This has not generally been the case since 2008, but is a possible trend to watch. No sign of, say, expanding distance learning, or drawing on MOOCs.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 12, 2017
Clayton Christensen and Michael Horn, for example, predicted in their 2008 book Disrupting Class that by 2019 half of all high school classes would be taught via the Internet. Vive la MOOC Révolution. In October of this year, Clarissa Shen, Udacity’s Chief Operating Officer, called MOOCs “ a failed product.”
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Hack Education
DECEMBER 30, 2019
In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. There was a regularly updated Facebook page, a Twitter account, as well as a LinkedIn profile for its supposed president. MOOCs are, no surprise, their own entry on this long list of awfulness.
Hack Education
APRIL 30, 2020
More personalized means more surveilled — we know this from Facebook and Amazon, don't we. And as you surely know, 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.
Hack Education
FEBRUARY 2, 2018
Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). It’s baaaaack: “Return of the MOOC ,” The City Journal tells us. There’s some (sorta) MOOC-related news in the venture funding section below. Because MOOCs on an airplane proved to be such an effective mode of instruction.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 9, 2017
I was inspired, I think, to select that topic because talk of “platforms” was incredibly popular in Silicon Valley – it had been for a while – as companies strove to become “the next Facebook.” ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. Think Facebook.
Hack Education
SEPTEMBER 2, 2016
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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