Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2017

After a lull in 2016, venture activity for U.S.-based By contrast, in 2016, investors put $1 billion into 138 deals. MOOC companies typically account for the bump in the “Post-Secondary” category, but aside from Coursera’s $64 million Series D round, few other companies focused in higher education scored a large deal.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

For a long time, arguably the best known anti-cheating technology was the plagiarism detection software TurnItIn. So they turned some of their research on pattern-matching of brainwaves to create a piece of software that would identify patterns in texts. Anti-cheating software isn't just about plagiarism, of course.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2017

education technology startups ebbed in 2016, dipping roughly 30 percent in deal volume and value from the previous year. 2016 US Edtech Funding Totals $1 Billion. He’s never been a fan of digital textbooks or MOOCs.) Among them: Achieve3000, a language arts tool, and Frontline Technologies, a provider of administrative software.

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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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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Another is the rise of the MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) or online instructional platforms like edX, Coursera, or Udacity. Or it will affect higher education in ways that we cannot even predict from the vantage of 2016. That may pertain to issues of crediting experiential work outside the classroom.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

A venture-backed for-profit called the Minerva Project created the college’s curriculum and software, and has raised more than $95-million. Where it stands: Ortiz announced the effort in early 2016, and is apparently still doing fundraising and planning. Tax status: Hybrid of for-profit and non-profit.

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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.”) It may be the hardware or the operating system (OS), even a web browser or other underlying software, as long as the program code is executed in it. It’s now an LMS too.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Achievement Gap and Personalized Learning: These are two issues that the 2016 Horizon Report identifies as thorny challenges — those that are “complex to define, let alone address.” This environment of stagnation frustrates many teachers and prevents good ideas from spreading. DEVELOPMENTS IN ED TECH.

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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!) ” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity. Either way. as well as honored to be here.

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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. But MOOC-based degrees are just at the starting line of what appears to be a rush to hang discount tags on online degrees.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

He was curious about ways to secure those records, and by 2016 the Media Lab partnered with Learning Machine to test their ideas with blockchain, an open ledger that permanently records transactions on a distributed digital database. Over at the University of Texas at Austin, Phil Long, says his team is researching something similar. “If

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Some of this is what Jane Mayer describes in her 2016 book Dark Money – the powerful and secretive networks of right-wing billionaire activists. Perhaps that name, Betsy DeVos, is familiar. I have mentioned her once or twice in this series.). But the results are not uniformly positive. It finds no impact in math.

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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. Additional resources such as ViewSonic’s myViewBoard software , can be used to combine content into a single presentation, which can then be shared with children online.

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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. And it has.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 19, 2016

One of the big stories this week: the US Department of Education ’s announcement about which “non-traditional providers” ( MOOCs , coding bootcamps ) will be eligible for financial aid as part of its EQUIP experiment. ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Education Politics. Innovation!

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

— Stephen King (@StephenKing) October 3, 2016. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “Aftermath of the MOOC wars: Can commercial vendors support creative higher education ? ” “ Deloitte Publishes 2016 Digital Education Survey,” says Edsurge. Education Politics.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 12, 2016

.” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Education Dive makes claims about “ MOOCs as tools for equity in under-resourced high schools.” ” Elsewhere, more claims about “the global poor” and MOOCs (and other ed-tech companies) in Edsurge. .” Upgrades and Downgrades.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Just a few weeks after Daphne Koller ’s announcement she was leaving the MOOC startup she co-founded, Coursera unveiled “ Coursera for Business ” this week, marking its pivot from “democratizing higher ed” to “ training corporate employees.”

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Hack Education

APRIL 14, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via the Coursera blog : “New mobile features: Transcripts, notes, and reminders.” " It’s lovely to see the big innovation from the MOOC startups in 2017 involves the learning management system. ” Udacity has updated its online "classroom."

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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.). Also by Michael Feldstein : “Why Ed-Tech Software Patents Could Harm Innovation.”

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

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. The quackery in 2016 wasn’t new, in other words, but it was notable.

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Hack Education

JULY 20, 2018

in 2016 on a student visa.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news in the credential section below. Via Class Central : “Analysis of 450 MOOC -Based Microcredentials Reveals Many Options But Little Consistency.” ” asks Pacific Standard.

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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. “Hardly Anyone Wants to Take a Liberal Arts MOOC,” Edsurge informed its readers in February. We’ve seen this before in the MOOC world.

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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.) Under a Trump administration: I very much want ed-tech companies and schools to reconsider collecting so much data about students — Audrey Watters (@audreywatters) November 10, 2016.

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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. ” The new software is supposed to get students ready for “the Salesforce economy,” whatever the hell that means.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 10, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Related: “Why did Elon Musk stash a quarter-billion dollars of Tesla stock in a non-profit back in 2016?” Procare Software has raised an undisclosed amount of money from Warburg Pincus. ” More via Inside Higher Ed. ” asks The Outline.

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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.

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

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. Creative Commons has released its State of the Commons 2016 report. “Why the U.S.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 1, 2016

’” Online Education, Beyond “MOOCs” Via Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill : “The Remarkable Transformation at UF Online.” Data and “Research” Analytics software Tableau offers its report on “The State of Data Education in 2016.”

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Something something Brexit something something MOOCs will save British higher ed. pic.twitter.com/k6CIPOlD3G — Dave Zirin (@EdgeofSports) September 18, 2016. ” weaponized minecraft — Ed-Tech Weaponized (@weaponizedu) September 15, 2016.

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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. The startup was later sold to Valore Education in 2015 , which was in turn acquired by Follett in 2016 , which in turn shut down the Boundless site in 2017.

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Hack Education

APRIL 3, 2017

But the total dollars fell sharply in 2016 – “only” $2.2 This is part of the push for MOOCs, we must be honest.). Similarly MOOC startups have now all seemed to pivot towards corporate technology training, but certainly all corporate training isn’t running through these companies.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

.” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ For-Profit Companies With the Highest Enrollments at Their Colleges, Fall 2016.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Gotta keep hyping that MOOC thing. Via Edsurge : “ MOOCs Are No Longer Massive. The company has raised $182.3

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Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Elsewhere in MOOC research… From Campus Technology : “Grouping MOOC Students by Communication Mode Doesn’t Help Completion.” ” More on MOOC (and related) research in the research section below. MOOCs losing their mojo?

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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.” ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). “ Are MOOCs Forever ?” ” Google has released its 2016 Scholar Metrics.

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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. ” There is no mention here about mind-reading robo tutors in the sky , but there are some questionable claims about what the software can do. Doane University has joined edX.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 13, 2016

2016 was, as the president of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation wrote earlier this month in Inside Higher Ed , a “ Pivotal Year for Accreditation.” If you want a job as a software developer in the technology industry, you’ll need a college degree. million ads for software-developer jobs nationwide.

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