Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

2004-2011: Washington Leans In. Between 2004 and 2011, I worked as an executive in SchoolNet and Kaplan, both of which grew into successful and innovative education companies. 2011-2020: From Early Adopters To Mainstream Adoption. Observing the internet revolution, Marc Andreessen famously wrote “ software is eating the world.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Another notable area of growth: the size of the report itself, which has expanded from 66 slides in 2011 to 355 this year , with the number of slides almost doubling in the last year alone. There may be no better example of this in 2017 than “personalized learning.” Is this really a trend? Manufacturing Trends.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 12, 2016

Via the Coursera blog : “Coming soon to all courses: Flexible session-based schedules.” ” Via Education Week : “Personalized learning pioneer Summit Public Schools is expanding its network to include 100 new schools, CEO Dianne Tavenner announced via a Facebook post today.” and retailer George L.

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Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2017

So instead of a zeppelin, we got to ride in one of Google’s self-driving cars, which was of course the project that Thrun had been working on when he gave his famous TED Talk in 2011 – and that, in turn, was where he heard Salman Khan give his famous TED Talk. But universities are still bound by accreditation (and by tradition).

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

I’ll look more closely at discrimination by design – in software and in algorithms – in the final article in this series.) Furthermore, at launch, Pokémon Go demanded users sign over a great deal of personal data and grant permissions to the app that, for a time , gave it access to a user’s entire Google account.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. In 2011, Ning was acquired by “lifestyle” site Glam Media for around $150 million. It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security.

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Hack Education

JULY 15, 2016

.” The article notes that “The number of states planning to use the new [SBAC and PARCC] tests dropped from 45 in 2011 to 20 in 2016.” ” asks The Chronicle of Higher Education in an interview with Coursera’s Daphne Koller. A “ personalized learning explainer ” from Mindwire Consulting.

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