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What next with the LMS? A conversation with Phill Hill, continued

Bryan Alexander

What drove such wide adoption in Europe and other regions for Moodle over the years? from Twitter: @PhilOnEdTech @BryanAlexander What is Phil's take on Facebook's LMS project? — Mark Corbett Wilson (@MCorbettWilson) June 29, 2017. I’ve retained questioner names when possible. link] #FTTE.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

I was inspired, I think, to select that topic because talk of “platforms” was incredibly popular in Silicon Valley – it had been for a while – as companies strove to become “the next Facebook.” Think Facebook. ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs.

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What next with the LMS? A conversation with Phill Hill, continued

Bryan Alexander

What drove such wide adoption in Europe and other regions for Moodle over the years? from Twitter: @PhilOnEdTech @BryanAlexander What is Phil's take on Facebook's LMS project? — Mark Corbett Wilson (@MCorbettWilson) June 29, 2017. I’ve retained questioner names when possible. link] #FTTE.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via ProPublica : “ Facebook (Still) Letting Housing Advertisers Exclude Users by Race.” ” (Related, this assignment from Davidson College’s Mark Sample : “Hacking Facebook’s Ad Network for Justice.”). ” “Personalization.” Research, “Research,” and Reports.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Me: pic.twitter.com/gmb3Oigcv0 — Audrey Watters (@audreywatters) October 5, 2017. pic.twitter.com/yehgZ82br6 — Shahien Nasiripour (@nasiripour) October 5, 2017. pic.twitter.com/tfodnBuiTF — Ashley Jost (@ajost) September 29, 2017. The LMS Moodle has raised $6 million in its first ever round of venture funding.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Gizmodo : “ Facebook Will Add 3,000 More People to Watch Murders and Suicides.” ” Nope, robots will not be doing this job of content moderation , as Facebook recently boasted at its developer conference. Via The Independent : “ Facebook research targeted insecure youth, leaked documents show.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Chalkbeat : “New York City’s largest school charter network, Success Academy , has won the 2017 Broad Prize for Public Charter Schools.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Facebook , an Online Learning Platform?” ” “Whither Moodle ?” ” Contests and Awards. ”). .”).