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A Class You'll Be Excited To Take. #ETMOOC

The Web20Classroom

My entire Masters degree was done online back in 2009 and 2010 and that wasn''t all that traditional at the time. But I do enjoy learning and I am very interested in the ideas of MOOCs or Massively Open Online Courses and have been for a while. It is a MOOC with a focus on educational technology and media. ETMOOC MOOC'

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What Happens When Ed-Tech Forgets? Some Thoughts on Rehabilitating Reputations

Hack Education

For a long time, arguably Blackboard was one of the major ed-tech villains. Blackboard, however, really upset folks in 2006 when it filed a patent infringement lawsuit against its competitor Desire2Learn (D2L), one day after receiving the patent for "Internet-based education support system and methods. But guess who's back?

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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

Edsurge

When I started my first edtech business in 1998, our competitor Blackboard had less than 10 employees and customers. In 2009, our team at Kaplan Ventures invested in a virtual reality corporate training startup that was ten years too early. MOOCs topped the cycle in 2012. OPMs topped the cycle in 2015.

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Week of July 30, 2011 - Live and Interactive Webinars in Blackboard Collaborate

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Below are this week''s public, free, and interactive Webinars through LearnCentral.org , the social learning network for education that I work on for Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). EPCOP MOOC INTRO WEBINAR ( Australia Series ) Mon 1 Aug 09:00PM New York / Tue 2 Aug 01:00AM GMT / Tue 2 Aug 11:00AM Sydney Coach Carole.

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Thursday - Ray McNulty on the Courage to Change Education

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Ray is a past president of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) and author of It’s Not Us Against Them — Creating the Schools We Need , published in 2009. The Blackboard Collaborate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. Log in at [link].

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

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. MOOCs are, no surprise, their own entry on this long list of awfulness. People were relieved that there was a new alternative to Blackboard. Uber for Education". “We

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) I’d love to provide a link but Andreessen deleted his blog in 2009. The LMS giant Blackboard celebrated its 20th anniversary this year. (I Not sure anyone else did.)