EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

These are online representations of an earned skill, often through taking small credit courses aimed toward working and non-degree-seeking individuals. Another is the rise of the MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) or online instructional platforms like edX, Coursera, or Udacity. Or must they take a leave of absence?

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Opinionated Products : There’s a word for the kinds of tools and products—like say, Google search results—which adapt to a user’s behavior: opinionated. Companies like Microsoft, Facebook and Google are all dipping their toes into virtual and augmented reality. to 11:00 p.m. K-12 11:00 a.m. Will VR Really Impact Student Outcomes?

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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 9, 2017

” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) To believe that would require, of course, that we overlook the role that the major technology platforms – Google, Facebook, and Amazon – play in education.

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Fractus Learning

MAY 19, 2016

While educators and learners in classroom-based courses have already discovered the benefits of using engagement as a part of education, the power of online is yet to be fully realized. This could happen to your online program: Students Suing School Over Online Courses. – Rita-Marie Conrad, J.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

A number of colleges have partnered with big MOOC providers, principally Coursera and edX, to offer large-scale online courses at far lower prices, in part to attract new students to their higher-priced online degrees. Enrollment in the school’s online MBA, launched in 2016, jumped from 114 initially to 1,955 today.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

This is the last public talk I’ll deliver in 2016, and I confess I am relieved (I am exhausted!) It’s an intense research project that usually tops out at about 75,000 words, written over the course of four to six weeks. Either way. as well as honored to be here. The quotation is from 2012.

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ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 1, 2019

In order to reduce the amount of new content a teacher needs to make, YouTube videos, MOOC s, multiple choice questions and web-based resources can be combined. While the focus is often on students and teachers who are undertaking the course, it is just as important to win over parents. not having to attend classes).

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ProfHacker

JANUARY 19, 2016

— Jesse Stommel (@Jessifer) January 2, 2016. — David Wiley, PhD (@opencontent) January 4, 2016. Jargon: Someone uses the term MOOC. Most people I communicate with on Twitter are fully aware of what a MOOC is. Of course, context matters (heavily) outside of social media. Both the doing and the detection.

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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. Here’s what they said: 2016 was The Year of Video.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Then there was the infamous anti-diversity memo distributed by Google engineer James Damore and leaked to the press this summer that charged that efforts the company (and the industry more broadly) had taken to address diversity were misguided as women are biologically ill-suited to computer science – which is, of course, totally b t.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

— Stephen King (@StephenKing) October 3, 2016. It’s not really “free Internet,” of course – it’s Facebook as Internet. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “Aftermath of the MOOC wars: Can commercial vendors support creative higher education ?

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations. The free assessments include Google Docs assessments to copy and digital rubrics to download. That was certainly the case in our experience. What’s the evidence?

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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. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Inside Higher Ed : “Humans, the Latest MOOC Feature.” ” Of course, you have to pay $300 for this “features.”

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

” Via the Data Quality Campaign : “ Student Data Privacy Legislation : A Summary of 2016 State Legislation.” ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). MOOC hype deja vu.). Google announced it was adding to search results about colleges and universities data from the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

We live in a world where our library begins with G,” Wineburg said, for Google, and the Common Core’s push for evidence-based reasoning falls flat if students trust everything that pops up in their Google search results. My students are all about social media.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

That’s not what Didion meant to do, of course. I mean, the Cubs did win the World Series in 2016. ” In other words, we did not suddenly enter a period of “post-truth” in 2016. .” ” In other words, we did not suddenly enter a period of “post-truth” in 2016. So many losses.

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Hack Education

MAY 26, 2016

That pronoun “we,” of course, is used in turn both broadly and narrowly, to include and exclude. Yeats’ poem “Easter, 1916,” of course – but opted, thanks to Donald Trump, to invoke a different, more apocalyptic Yeats. Trump University was never an accredited university.

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Hack Education

JULY 20, 2018

Fines Google $5.1 in 2016 on a student visa.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). “The cost of maintaining an online course for several years can eventually outstrip the launch cost – but the investment might just pay off,” says Inside Higher Ed. Because of course.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Either way, he’s gone too soon; we’ve lost too much , too many in 2016. pic.twitter.com/BBhsgwY2FZ — Audrey Watters (@audreywatters) August 1, 2016. The work is also supported by companies including Apple, Google and Expedia, as well as education organizations including the CollegeBoard, Teach For America and STEMx.”

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

on Election Day 2016, closed at post-election high of $17.85 In the future, you might want to look for most MOOC-related news in the “business of job training” section below. Google had a big media to-do this week. Via Ars Technica : “Google unveils a $249 smart camera that decides what’s worth photographing.”

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Hack Education

APRIL 6, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). “The MOOC is not dead, but maybe it should be,” says Rolin Moe. Via the AP : “ Wyoming begins path to computer science courses in schools.” ” Via the Google blog : “Rolling Study Halls: turning bus time into learning time.”

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2018

Of course, the US can’t let the UK lead for too long when it comes to terrible people and terrible ideas in education. Kudos to the Houston Chronicle for the original reporting on this in 2016. Via The Verge : “James Damore sues Google for allegedly discriminating against conservative white men.” 56% are white.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Pokémon Go, a free augmented reality game developed by Niantic (a company spun out of Google in 2015), became the most popular mobile game in US history this year. Handing over data, often quite thoughtlessly, has become par for the course – in education and in society more generally. “ Seen ” cheating.).

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Hack Education

AUGUST 10, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” His son-in-law is Jared Kushner , of course. Google has updated its pseudo-LMS, Classroom. Google blogs ; tech publications help market the news. Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Education Dept. ” More via Inside Higher Ed.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 14, 2016

There’s less than a month left of the 2016 Presidential campaign and The End can’t come soon enough. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Microsoft -Branded MOOCs for K–12 Leaders.” Presidential Campaign Politics. Education in the Courts. Small world).

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Hack Education

JANUARY 18, 2017

Of course, some education reform proponents want to frame DeVos as “ mainstream ,” but she’s far from it. ( Via the Arizona Capitol Times : “ Arizona bill to ban school ‘ social justice ’ courses dies quickly.” Via the IEEE Spectrum : “How the Pioneers of the MOOC Got It Wrong.”

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

“Is there an elegant way to administer exams in online courses ?” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Brown University joins edX. “ Y Combinator MOOC for Tech Startups Attracts Thousands of Views,” says Campus Technology. Not sure why this is called a MOOC. Never click.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 31, 2018

Because of course. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” SEL is “social emotional learning,” of course. “ Deliveroo offers free OpenClassrooms courses to riders,” says Techcrunch. ” That is, three campuses in the University of Puerto Rico system. Yes, I can.)

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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. There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. Um, they do.) It’s that their parents are opting them out of exposure to these technologies.

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Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

“High school students will be allowed to carry mace in the 2016–2017 school year after the Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education agreed to remove prohibitive language and amend its policy,” the Salisbury Post reports. — Shane Goldmacher (@ShaneGoldmacher) May 10, 2016. From the HR Department. Don’t do this.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

The big ed-tech news this week is, of course, that Betsy DeVos is considering allowing schools to use federal funds to arm teachers and staff. ” CPS is, of course, the Chicago Public Schools. ” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ For-Profit Companies With the Highest Enrollments at Their Colleges, Fall 2016.”

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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. This is part of the push for MOOCs, we must be honest.).

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Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

You’ll remember Gove, of course, from his role as the former education secretary and as special friend of News Corp's Joel Klein. ” She promises that every kid will learn to code (of course) by having the private sector train CS teachers. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Updates from ISTE.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 19, 2018

” WV is West Virginia , of course. ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news in the job training section below. Of course, Harvard doesn’t keep quiet about anything, does it.). .” (State and Local) Education Politics. ” The chain: KIPP.

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Hack Education

MARCH 17, 2017

” This includes, of course, billionaire Betsy DeVos. Via Reuters : “ Apple , Google , Facebook skip legal challenge to new travel ban.” ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “A Corporate Learning Revolution” – a Coursera webinar. Are MOOCs webinars?

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Hack Education

MAY 20, 2016

Education Department said this week it will make Pell Grants available to 10,000 high school students who are enrolled in courses at 44 colleges.” And The Next Web headline makes for… something: “ Facebook and Google could be allowed to award university degrees.” ” Via NPR : “The U.S.

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