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.” 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) ” Re-reading that article now makes me cringe.

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 6, 2016

In addition, PeopleAdmin, a talent-management software provider for the education sector, acquired TeacherMatch. Udemy Raises $60 Million: Udemy , a San Francisco-based online provider of courses, received a $60 million strategic investment from Internet and entertainment group Naspers through its Naspers Ventures division.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2017

By 2014, the university’s leaders had purchased iPads for every undergraduate student and moved toward placing readings and multimedia materials from core courses on iTunes U, the company’s long-running platform for educational materials, and encouraging professors to flip their classrooms. “I She also appreciates the iPad’s portability.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

But coding bootcamps have only existed since 2012, and they’ve been pushed to hold themselves accountable to getting people into jobs. Now, most of [the coding bootcamps] either rely on Facebook ads or Google searches, or just the reputation from influencers talking about them and hoping that students fall from the sky.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JUNE 26, 2015

Ed note: This post was first published in 2012, and is in the process of being updated. Espacios publicos Very quickly into the 20 hours of introductory Spanish course material, you’ll discover this means “public spaces.”. The BBC brings you all the tools you need with this free course. Video Channels. Just watch and learn.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

It’s an intense research project that usually tops out at about 75,000 words, written over the course of four to six weeks. Of course, if you look for those education technology writers who are independent from venture capital, corporate or institutional backing, or philanthropic funding, there is pretty much only me.).

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

Of course, towers, base stations and routers are nothing without a license to beam all that data through a sliver of the electromagnetic spectrum. Would 20 hours of one student logged into Google Classroom, or 20 students logged in for one hour, suffice? We can flip the classroom. There’s been a real positive change in the culture.”.

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Here’s another hint: they haven’t created a new open textbook since 2012. The problem with the main earlier label, “free software,” was not its political connotations, but that—to newcomers—its seeming focus on price is distracting. Effective Advocacy.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

According to Harvard University, “in Activity-Based Learning courses, students do public service, fieldwork, community-based research and internships in conjunction with in-class work. Learning expressly through online courses and related digital resources. Google Apps for Education. Google Classroom. ” (1).

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 11, 2022

And for just as long, I’ve believed that there are useful lessons for us to learn on this topic from open source software – OER’s far more popular and influential sibling. The empirical work on the sustainability of open source software (e.g., and will help us to continue to create products of the highest quality.”

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2019

What lessons can be learned from the rise and pivot of MOOCs, those large-scale online courses that proponents said would disrupt higher education? At the start of the MOOC trend in 2012, the promise was that the free online courses could reach students who could not afford or get access to other forms of higher education.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Connexeo (school administration software): $110 million. Investors in tutoring companies this year included Warbug Pincus, Goldman Sachs, Learn Capital, Y Combinator, the Omidyar Network, Sequoia Capital, TAL Education, Tencent, Google, and of course, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Yuanfudao (tutoring): $250 million.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

A year later, in their second grade, Google launched the first Chromebooks. This Chrome OS share, of course, has made Microsoft angry. The early rise of the iPad peaked in 2012-13 at about 40 percent of shipments. The Cloudscape: Floating in a Sea of 1s and 0s For background, just consider the previous decade of their lives.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

If you do a Google image search for “classroom,” you’ll mostly see one familiar scene: rows or groups of desks , with a spot at the front of the room for the teacher. More than nine out of 10 districts polled said they were directing devices, software and professional development resources toward personalized learning.

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TeacherCast

MAY 8, 2019

Topics inside of this category involve purchasing and using audio and video equipment, editing, publishing, and of course promoting. February: Google for Education. Week 1: Google Docs Tips. Week 2: Google Slides Tips. Week 3: Creating Assessments with Google Forms. Organize Podcasting Topics. March: Podcasting.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JUNE 18, 2015

Windows, Linux and other desktop platforms, of course, also allow for this sort of user organization. .” Home base for me was the Mac lab, which consisted of 27 eMacs, each of which weighed roughly the same as 35 current-generation iPads! Many schools employed conceptually similar setups back then, and likely continue to today.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2017

They can be something everybody uses; that’s how 2012 became the year of the MOOC, and why virtual reality will no doubt be widely cited as the trend of 2016. Additionally, we will use ADVANCEfeedback as a pedagogical tool in our courses as candidates reflect collaboratively around a common video before, during, and after class.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

in theoretical physics, he retired in 2019 as Professor of Educational Technology at Newcastle University in England, after 13 years there including a year in 2012 as Visiting Professor at MIT MediaLab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. In 2004, she started her Rethinking Learning blog in My eCoach.

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Hack Education

MAY 25, 2018

.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “The Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education has hired as its new chancellor a former University of California official who managed the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ’s work on postsecondary education from 2012 until early this year.” ” That’s Daniel Greenstein.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

That’s not what Didion meant to do, of course. Students, of course, have rarely been recognized as experts – unless they fit the model of “ roaming autodidacts ” that society so readily lauds.). Of course it did. That famous Arthur C. Clarke saying and whatnot. ” And here we are.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The first iteration of this list was published in 2012 and since then the list witnessed several iterations. Some of the best tools to create interactive presentations include Canva , AhaSlides , Pear Deck , Slido, Haiku Deck, Google Slides, and many more. There are several search tips and tricks to help you make the best of Google.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

” It’s now unclear, observers say, if the FTC can regulate companies like Google or Verizon. ” Carl Straumsheim writes that “One of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ’s most popular massive open online courses is adding a feature not seen in any of its other humanities MOOCs: instructors grading essays.”

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Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2017

In December 2012 – we all remember 2012 right? 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. .”

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2018

One selling point of MOOCs (massive online open courses) has been that students can access courses from the world’s most famous universities. In fact, three of the 10 most popular courses on Coursera aren’t produced by a college or university at all, but by a company. Since the course began in 2012, it has drawn more than 1.7

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Iterating Toward Openness

DECEMBER 3, 2015

The internet’s early designers were not trying to facilitate the creation of a Google, Facebook, Amazon, WordPress, Wikipedia, or OpenCourseWare. As a backwards chain: before faculty can choose to replace the commercial resources in their courses with open educational resources, there must first be open educational resources.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

And one for-profit story is in the Betteridge’s Law of Headlines section because of course. “ Daniel Greenstein , who has overseen the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ’s work on postsecondary education since 2012, announced Monday that he would leave the foundation next month,” Inside Higher Ed reports.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

” But of course, that’s not quite true: my first introduction to Papert's work was actually a decade earlier, when I sat at an Apple II and taught a Turtle how to move about the screen. ” This argument is, of course, ridiculously daft, as “the liberal arts” has historically included math and science.

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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. There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. And “free” doesn’t last.

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Hack Education

APRIL 3, 2017

It’s a look back at what’s happened over the course of each year, not simply – to counter that totally overused phrase from hockey player Wayne Gretsky’s dad – to “skate to where the puck is going,” but to examine where it has been. It also includes Cupertino, where Apple is headquartered.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 19, 2018

” WV is West Virginia , of course. Of course, Harvard doesn’t keep quiet about anything, does it.). Via Techcrunch : “ Google and Coursera launch program to train more IT support specialists.” “ Google is jeopardizing A frican-American literature sites ,” says The Outline.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 13, 2016

It was an elaborate scam, dating back to 2012, but one that gave out many online signals that the school was “real.” In March, the majority of community college presidents in California voted to pull away from ACCJC, something that had been in the works since it had sanctioned the City College of San Francisco back in 2012.

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Technology Education Secondary Pearson 40

Hack Education

MARCH 24, 2017

Via Google’s blog : “ Howard University opens a new campus at the Googleplex.” ” It’s a three-month summer program with classes taught by Google engineers and Howard faculty. “Despite the buzz, competency-based education remains a challenging market for software vendors,” says Inside Higher Ed.

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Hack Education

MARCH 3, 2017

In other Google and edu news, via The Verge : “White nationalists seem to have manipulated Google search results for ‘Boasian anthropology’ ” Via Education Week : “‘Fake News,’ Media Literacy Become Business Opportunities in Rush to Educate Students.” million total.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

Of course, DeVos has supported groups that back the Common Core in the past, including Jeb Bush ’s Foundation for Excellence in Education. But Trump – of course – will be able to deduct the settlement on his taxes. Via NPR : “ Notre Dame Must Vacate 2012, 2013 Football Wins Over Academic Violations.”

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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.” ” Google announces it is “Funding 75,000 Udacity scholarships to bridge the digital skills gap.”

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

But the struggling sector’s political giving is down since peaking in 2012,” Inside Higher Ed reports. ” Google announced it was cutting jobs in its Google Fiber division. And Google has put plans to expand Fiber to more cities on hold. And Google is getting into the whiteboard business.

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