Hack Education

JANUARY 19, 2018

.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news in the job training section below. Via Techcrunch : “ Google and Coursera launch program to train more IT support specialists.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “A New Home for AI : The Library.”

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JUNE 29, 2018

“ Google , Facebook , Verizon , Comcast and AT&T each contributed $200,000 to a committee opposing the proposed ballot measure, and lobbyists had estimated that businesses would spend $100 million to campaign against it before the November election.” ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”).

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Hack Education

MAY 19, 2017

” Also via WaPo : “Here are K–12 education programs Trump wants to eliminate in 2018 budget.” ” The New York Times looks at “ anti-tax fervor ” in southern Oregon , which will result in the one public library in Roseburg closing its doors. ” This includes $10.1 Upgrades and Downgrades.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

” Via The Atlantic : “The Libraries Bringing Small-Town News Back to Life.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). It’s baaaaack: “Return of the MOOC ,” The City Journal tells us. There’s some (sorta) MOOC-related news in the venture funding section below.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

. “Learning styles” in the White House: President Trump doesn’t read his daily intelligence briefings, gets oral briefings on “select” issues instead, because reading isn’t “his style of learning,” the @washingtonpost reports [link] — Kasie Hunt (@kasie) February 9, 2018. ” The Business of Financial Aid. .”

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2017

A bill in Missouri would end tenure for all new faculty hires starting in 2018 and require more student access to information about the job market for majors. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” edX is offering an online master’s degree with Georgia Tech : an OMS (online master’s in science) in Analytics.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

” Via Bklyner.com : “ Brooklyn Public Library and Bard College to Offer Free College Degree Programs in 2018.” ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “How Much Hollywood Glitz Should Colleges Use in Their Online Courses ?” ” The Business of Student Loans.

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Hack Education

JUNE 8, 2018

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ UVa Library’s Plan to Cut Stacks by Half Sparks Faculty Concerns.” Via Techcrunch : “ Udacity and Google launch free career courses for interview prep, resume writing and more.”

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

“ President Trump Earmarks $200 Million in Federal Grants for STEM , Computer Science Programs ,” says Edsurge , later swooning that “ Google , Facebook , Amazon Among Tech Titans Committing $300 Million to K–12 Computer Science.” (National) Education Politics. Venture Capital and the Business of Ed-Tech.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 6, 2016

The Rebranding of MOOCs. Remember 2012 , “ The Year of the MOOC? Remember in 2012 when the media wrote about MOOCs with such frenzy, parroting all these marketing claims and more and predicting that MOOCs were poised to “ end the era of expensive higher education ”? MOOCs are not particularly "open."

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OCTOBER 28, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Via Politico : “ Elizabeth City State University , UNC Pembroke and Western Carolina University will each offer $500 in-state tuition starting in fall 2018.” ” Google announced it was cutting jobs in its Google Fiber division.

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