Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2017

If 2012 was “ The Year of the MOOC ”—massive open online courses, usually offered for free—2017 could be “The Year of the Microcredential.” EdX, the nonprofit founded by Harvard University and MIT to offer MOOCs, now lists 40 “MicroMasters” programs from 24 colleges and universities around the world.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

It’s hard to remember now, but many industry colleagues felt edtech was a frothy market in 2017. MOOCs topped the cycle in 2012. The prior year, my former chief Bill Gates headlined ASU GSV and received a standing ovation for championing technology’s power to transform teaching and learning. OPMs topped the cycle in 2015.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2018

In 2017, Stephen DeRue, dean of University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, wrote a Forbes column arguing that, in order to make higher education more affordable, we needed to move towards an “iTunes model for education.” “In In the future,” he wrote, “I envision three tiers of education that look a lot like the music industry of today.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Last year, MOOC providers announced about 30 new online degrees. This wave of activity and spending by MOOC providers and universities gave me a feeling of deja vu: it reminded me of the 2012 MOOC hype. That is why I called the rise of online degrees the second wave of MOOC-hype and 2018, the year of MOOC-based degrees.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2019

Zia founded the company, originally called Murcul, in October 2017 in Hong Kong. Juno College of Technology is the new name of a school known as HackerYou since its founding in 2012. Everyone is trying to make education online, but we’ve seen the rise and fall of MOOCs,” says Payne, 32. They’ve got it all wrong.”

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Only 58% of students who started college in 2012 had graduated 6 years later. In a 2012 experiment, for instance, teams of IT graduates participated in a timed competition where they solved as many “trouble tickets” — as user complaints are called in tech support — as possible in a set amount of time.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

This is part four of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Way back in 2012, I chose “ The Platforming of Education ” as one of my “Top Ed-Tech Trends.” ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. Remember Edmodo? They’re amazing.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

The report is always a big deal in technology circles – “a tech industry event in its own right,” as Wired’s Steven Levy put it in 2012 – and many publications and pundits dutifully cover Meeker’s observations, often adding very little analysis of their own. Venture Capital in 2017.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2018

NovoEd traces its roots to Stanford University, where engineering professor Amin Saberi and Farnaz Ronaghi, then a PhD student, launched their first online course in 2012. The company started looking for more funding in spring 2017, and a year later returned on the fundraising trail in pursuit of Series B funding. NovoEd raised $4.8

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

In 2017, for example, Edsurge informed its readers that “MissionU Says It Can Replace Traditional College With a One-Year Program.” In 2012, Wired Magazine proclaimed that Udacity “ could change higher learning forever.” Vive la MOOC révolution. ” This year, Udacity ended its money-back guarantee.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2019

So much so, the New York Times even dubbed 2012 the “ Year of the MOOC.” Advocates for the courses would point a finger at the unaffordability of traditional education, promising that MOOCs could offer cheaper, more innovative alternatives. And why would MOOCs need to decolonize? But in many ways, the times have changed.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

In the long feature article in Time magazine on Khan Academy from July 9, 2012, it says (emphasis added): Khan is using the money [ from donations from Google, etc. ] In 2013 it was all about Khan Academy; in 2017, MOOCs; today the new hotness is AI. I will be writing more about that in the coming weeks. What will it be next?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2017

To get a glimpse into what the next 12 months will hold for everything from professional development to digital learning, and from communication to virtual reality, 15 ed tech luminaries looked back on 2016 edtech trends to help predict what’s in store for 2017. MOOCs continued to increase in number and attendance.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2017: The Stories We’ve Been Told. 2017 has been an extraordinary year for education news and for technology news – two areas that provide crucial context for everything that happens with education technology. Beyond the MOOC. MOOCs and Anti-MOOCs. The Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2012.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Larry Hogan (R) declared via executive order that beginning in September 2017, the Maryland school year won’t start until after Labor Day – a decision that prompted sharp criticism from school leaders, who are accusing Hogan of favoring the tourism industry over education.” The states in question: Texas and Nevada.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

It’s worth reexamining how we’re recreating these educational walled gardens online—as we move from the heyday of MOOCs in 2012 to the gradual decline of open access courseware in 2017. These are the resources that are typically still free like MOOCs, Khan Academy videos, TED videos, and some adaptive learning platforms.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Charles Koch Foundation ’s 2017 Giving Neared $90M.” ” Via e-Literate : “Fall 2017 Top 30 Largest Online Enrollments In US – With LMS Usage and Trends Since 2012.” PlayVS has raised $30.5

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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. In 2017, just a week before Christmas, the New Media Consortium abruptly announced its immediate closure “because of apparent errors and omissions by its former Controller and Chief Financial Officer.” Good for you. with Pigeons.

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Hack Education

APRIL 3, 2017

It’s a bit too early to tell what 2017 will bring.). This is part of the push for MOOCs, we must be honest.). In 2012, I chose “the platforming of education” as one of the “top ed-tech trends.” We’re more likely to overlook the role that venture capital plays, for example.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 19, 2018

.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news in the job training section below. .” I don’t recall if I talked about Elsevier when I wrote about platforms as part of my 2017 review. Doane University has joined edX. That’s certainly it’s aspiration.

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Hack Education

MARCH 24, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ Coursera Removes Biometric Identity Verification Using Keystroke Matching,” Class Central reports. ” Ng is, of course, the co-founder of the MOOC startup Coursera. . “ Predator Colleges May Thrive Again,” says The New York Times Editorial Board.

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Hack Education

MARCH 3, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Inside Higher Ed on online education at Simmons College. More on MOOC and online education research in the research section below. Saint Francis High School invested $15,000 in the company back in 2012. edX has added 16 new “MicroMasters” programs.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

The administration said it will phase out the program, which was established by President Obama in 2012, after a six-month period to give Congress a chance to act on legislation that could restore the program.” million augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality headsets shipped in the second quarter of 2017, a 25.5

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

And then there were MOOCs , of course, and all those predictions and all those promises about the end of college as we know it: “MOOCs make education borderless, gender-blind, race-blind, class-blind and bank account-blind” and similar fables. Vive la MOOC Révolution. Adam Medros became edX’s president and COO.

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Hack Education

APRIL 7, 2017

Via Inside Higher Ed : “Congressional Republicans and the Trump White House appear poised to bring back year-round Pell Grant eligibility , which the Obama administration and Congress nixed in 2012 over cost concerns.” pic.twitter.com/I0OCK8VeBa — TECHNOprah (@juanyfbaby) April 1, 2017. Remember MOOCs?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 6, 2016

The Rebranding of MOOCs. Remember 2012 , “ The Year of the MOOC? ” Remember in 2012 when Udacity co-founder Sebastian Thrun predicted that in fifty years, “there will be only 10 institutions in the world delivering higher education and Udacity has a shot at being one of them”?

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Hack Education

JUNE 3, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). “The Future of MOOCs Might Not Be Free ,” suggests Education Week’s Market Brief with an observation that many of us made back in 2012. “ Nancy Zimpher to Resign as SUNY Chancellor in 2017.”

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