Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2016

On the other end of the market, Google is offering its $15 Cardboard alongside Expeditions, which takes viewers on virtual field trips. With the explosive growth of online learning in the late 1990s and early 2000s, there was widespread speculation that new online courses would soon incorporate immersive environments.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

I’d love to provide a link but Andreessen deleted his blog in 2009. To believe that would require, of course, that we overlook the role that the major technology platforms – Google, Facebook, and Amazon – play in education. Someone generously re-posted all the content from that blog to a Posterous site.

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Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

Of course I have to start with MOOCs. Sustainable business models for MOOCs will emerge (this may mean changing the way we think of the course part of the MOOC acronym). We started to see MOOC like offerings emerge last year involving a fee for entry (a considerably lower fee than for the same traditional course).

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The Electric Educator

MAY 10, 2011

Note: While research regarding best practices for online learning is difficult to obtain due to the relatively infancy of the industry, four key areas of focus critical to program success have been identified. This week I will be posting four keys to student success in online courses. online learning'

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Bush and Obama administrations, with initiatives such as No Child Left Behind (2001) and Race to the Top (2009), spurred what’s been called a “ nationalization of education politics ” and, many teachers say, a relentless cycle of shiny fads promising to revolutionize the field. We use Google all the time. The George W.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

During 2020, WLS is finding new ways to help teachers make the shift to remote learning, including 5-day virtual teacher courses. She is also the 2002 California Teacher of the Year; a 2009 MacArthur Foundation Research Fellow; former Chair of Creative Commons, Founder of GlobalMoonshotsinEducation, co-founder of TractLearning.

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Hack Education

MAY 18, 2018

Via EdScoop : “ Google adds new terms to comply with Connecticut student data privacy laws.” “Free College” Via Edsurge : “For Free Community College , Online Learning Isn’t Always Part of the Recipe for Success.” State and Local) Education Politics. How embarrassing for y’all.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. Rafter, a course material provider that was an early advocate of and provider for this bundling of textbooks and tuition, closed its doors in 2016 , having raised more than $86 million.

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