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.

Technology 62

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Hack Education

APRIL 13, 2018

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before Congress this week about privacy, data, monopoly power, and regulations. And there’s more Facebook-related news in several of the sections below. ” Via The Verge : “ Facebook -backed lawmakers are pushing to gut privacy law.” (National) Education Politics.

Education 44

Education Facebook Edmodo OER 44

Hack Education

MAY 18, 2018

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Techcrunch with the corporate PR : “For Apple , this year’s Global Accessibility Awareness Day is all about education.” Via Techcrunch : “ Facebook launches Youth Portal to educate teens on the platform, how their data is being used.”

Education 49

Education Company MOOC Report 49

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. Um, they do.) Despite a few anecdotes, they’re really not.).

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Bryan Alexander

JULY 29, 2015

Then the 2008 recession and the 2009 death of leading education defender senator Ted Kennedy drove many Democrats more deeply into the arms of education reform. Bernie Sanders kicked this off in May , urging debt-free access to public colleges and universities. A bipartisan tendency grew. The bipartisan alignment might be breaking up.

Education 40

Education MOOC Policies Facebook 40