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Tonight - A True History of the MOOC

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Join me today, Wednesday, September 26th, for a one-hour live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar on the "true history" of the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) with Dave Cormier, Alec Couros, Stephen Downes, Rita Kop, Inge de Waard, and Carol Yeager. psid=2012-09-26.0742.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&sid=2008350

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Friday 5 — 5.22.2015

Perry Hewitt

At the same time, Twitter is rolling out its own more robust search , with new features for logged-out users. My guess is that Twitter native search will cater more to live Twitter consumption of breaking news or events. Google is once again showing tweets in search results , starting with mobile.

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

Hack Education

A critic of the company, Linkletter posted links to unlisted YouTube videos — that is, publicly available information — on Twitter. Michael Chasen, one of the co-founders of Blackboard and its CEO from 1999 to 2012. Nevertheless, this left a bitter taste in a lot of folks' mouths. We'll never forget, some said. But guess who's back?

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Revolution in Higher Education: chapter 2

Bryan Alexander

” Here DeMillo carries on his account of the MOOC story which he launched in chapter 1. This chapter takes us from 2012 through 2013, following the expansion of MOOCs across American research-1 institutions and the breakout of Coursera, edX, and Udacity. It’s not entirely a rosy account. Kindle location 1093).

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The design and future of open education: Curtis Bonk on Future Trends Forum

Bryan Alexander

Some discussion on Twitter occurred as well, along with several good questions, which you can examine in this Storify. After discussion via chat and Twitter we settled on professional development. Curt began by describing the use of MOOCs for faculty and staff development, with examples such as a University of London effort.

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Revolution in Higher Education: chapter 1

Bryan Alexander

The chapter is entitled “Map of the World”, and focuses on the rise of open courseware ( MIT OCW ) and MOOCs, with notes on flipped classes, Khan Academy , gaming (via Dragon Box ), and the Minerva Project (now Minerva Schools at KG ). DeMillo dubs this the Magic Year of 2012, when his titular revolution began.

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Developing a Culture of Sharing #SXSWedu

EdTechSandyK

Notes from SXSWedu 2012 panel discussion/concurrent session. Systems like Twitter and Google Apps for Edu are using and selling your data. Moocs are something to look at for moving more toward a culture of sharing. If you are in education and you are not interested in sharing, maybe you are not in the right space.

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