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The Metamorphosis of MOOCs

Edsurge

At a recent meeting of educational technology policy advisors, a well-informed university CIO casually declared that MOOCs were history. to develop a series of surveys to embed in their MicroMasters programs and in a Coursera Specialization. It’s true they stopped making headlines a while ago, but they have hardly abated.

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Will this semester forever alter college? No, but some virtual tools will stick around

The Hechinger Report

If anything, what people are mistaking now for online education — long class meetings in videoconference rooms, professors in their bathrobes, do-it-yourself tools made of rubber bands and cardboard — appears to be making them less, not more, open to it. If they didn’t like that, they definitely don’t like what they’re getting this semester.

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When universities slap their names on for-profit coding boot camps

The Hechinger Report

Make School, a San Francisco-based gaming company turned for-profit educational institution, was already offering a short-term tech boot camp, designed to meet that same goal. The partnership, established in 2018, would be the first of its kind. There is quality oversight and transparency about student outcomes.

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‘Talent’ Has Become the New Theme Uniting Education and Employment

Edsurge

The largest funding rounds of 2017 and 2018, and the most richly-capitalized companies overall, include Coursera, Degreed, Andela, MasterClass, and Trilogy Education Services—which for example each represent services or platforms to help meet the talent challenge, rather than, say, companies that offer software or tools to traditional colleges.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

From the Coursera blog : “Announcing ‘ AI for Everyone ’: a new course from deeplearning.ai on Coursera.” is the new company of Andrew Ng , Coursera’s co-founder.) h/t @CarlySidey pic.twitter.com/BL8lDVLMA4 — Jules Suzdaltsev (@jules_su) November 12, 2018. ” (deeplearning.ai

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 10 Edition)

Doug Levin

He anticipates needing to purchase around 2,000 to meet that goal. government, yet 92 percent of its most popular sites fail to meet basic standards for security, speed, mobile friendliness, or accessibility. Tagged on: March 9, 2017 Belgrade schools may tap $1.5M

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. In 2018, Mozilla said it would retire Backpack, its platform for sharing and displaying badges, and would help users move their badges to Badgr, software developed by the tech company Concentric Sky. Wedge Tailed Green Pigeon.

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