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Why Is Teaching So Prone to Fads?

Edsurge

A few years ago, MOOCs graced the covers of newspapers as a way to bring college to the masses on the cheap. It was low-tech, but it foreshadowed some of the adaptive learning systems of today. The problem is finding the will to pay for that, and to make high-quality education accessible.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

” 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. If so, what are they?

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5 Ed-Tech Ideas Face The Chronicle’s Version of ‘Shark Tank’

Wired Campus

Freedman: I love where you started with the criticism of the MOOCs. I mean, MOOCs aren’t learning platforms, they’re distribution platforms. So, for example, if you’re building timelines, we want you to do that with assembly tools that articulate well with WordPress, Google, and other kinds of platforms.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

The lawsuit contends that the publisher is “ predatory ” because it charges scholars to have their work published in open-access journals. ” It’s now unclear, observers say, if the FTC can regulate companies like Google or Verizon. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”).

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?Are We Recreating Segregated Education Online?

Edsurge

A single mom in middle America could learn to code from Google instructor. It’s worth reexamining how we’re recreating these educational walled gardens online—as we move from the heyday of MOOCs in 2012 to the gradual decline of open access courseware in 2017.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Education Week : “ Trump Signs Orders on Rural Broadband Access.” Via The Verge : “James Damore sues Google for allegedly discriminating against conservative white men.” ” 69% of Google’s employees are men. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”).

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news from Edsurge in the “job training” section below. There’s more MOOC news from Edsurge in the “job training” section below. ” Via Bloomberg : “Inside Google ’s Shadow Workforce.”