Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

And certainly the expectation of many ed-tech products (and increasingly school policy) is that parents will do just this — participate in the incessant monitoring of student data. In 2013, on the heels of “the Year of the MOOC,” Barber released a report titled “An Avalanche is Coming,” calling for the “unbundling” of higher education.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

” Because being cruel and thin-skinned seems to be the policy priority for everyone in the Trump administration. ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via the Iowa City Press-Citizen : “ Iowa families foregoing classroom for virtual school.” Discovering the Most Tenacious Learners.”

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Bryan Alexander

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

We’ve seen this from other states during the first few years after the 2008 financial crisis. Perhaps this rationale will occur elsewhere, depending on local conditions and policies. This has not generally been the case since 2008, but is a possible trend to watch. What a change over the past two generations.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

34 Percent Of Graduates Received A Diploma Against District Policy.” 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.

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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

JUNE 22, 2018

” Via The Hechinger Report : “ Louisiana ends policy that held thousands of students back a grade or more.” ” Via The Washington Post : “Are Betsy DeVos ’s policies exacerbating racial inequities in student debt ? Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”).

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Class Central : “ XuetangX : A Look at China’s First and Biggest MOOC Platform.” ” Google says this is merely an update to the TOS and privacy policy. ” Talking to them, I guess, is not an option. We Did Our Homework.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Jeb Bush’s lieutenant governor, as assistant secretary of elementary and secondary education, the top post at the Education Department overseeing K–12 policy.” MOOCs are out. Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Higher Ed Inflation Hits Highest Level Since 2008.” ” The Business of Job Training.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 6, 2016

The Rebranding of MOOCs. Remember 2012 , “ The Year of the MOOC? Remember in 2012 when the media wrote about MOOCs with such frenzy, parroting all these marketing claims and more and predicting that MOOCs were poised to “ end the era of expensive higher education ”? MOOCs are not particularly "open."

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Bryan Alexander

JULY 29, 2015

Higher education policy has loomed surprisingly large so far, and the various postures and proposals sketch out something of a break in the way Republicans and Democrats have been handling education. And this Democrat-Republican educational rapprochement continues today, at least in terms of policies and the work of sitting politicians.

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