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Edsurge
FEBRUARY 18, 2022
In Canada, for example, about two-thirds of colleges offer online degrees —and many have for years. Today, online education provides access to great masses of college students in the developing world, with Open Universities in Bangladesh, Iran, Pakistan, South Africa and Turkey together currently enrolling more than 7 million students.
Edsurge
DECEMBER 26, 2017
As the bubbly enthusiasm in the democratizing power of platforms like Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and Khan Academy quietly wanes, we’ve seen more attention to digital inequity like the homework gap and gender discrimination in coding careers. This was despite the fact that all three schools had the same levels of technology access.
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Hack Education
SEPTEMBER 2, 2016
Via The New York Times : “ Broadband Law Could Force Rural Residents Off Information Superhighway.” The lawsuit contends that the publisher is “ predatory ” because it charges scholars to have their work published in open-access journals. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”).
Hack Education
OCTOBER 7, 2016
From the FCC : “Fact Sheet on Broadband Consumer Privacy Proposal.” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “Aftermath of the MOOC wars: Can commercial vendors support creative higher education ? ” Spoiler alert: not enough access to data. Raise $146.1
Hack Education
DECEMBER 22, 2017
” Via Edsurge : “From Neutrality to Inequality: Why the FCC Is Dismantling Equal Access and What It Could Mean for Education.” ” The city uses algorithms, for example, to place students in public schools. Via Wired : “ Koch Brothers Are Cities’ New Obstacle to Building Broadband.”
Hack Education
JANUARY 12, 2018
Via Education Week : “ Trump Signs Orders on Rural Broadband Access.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). It’s another great example of why people who call for “ Uber for Education ” are probably pretty shady. ” Oh look.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 8, 2017
Via Inside Higher Ed : “A graduation rate requirement for access to special funds for minority-serving institutions in a proposed House Republican rewrite of the Higher Education Act would exempt historically black colleges and universities.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). “Huh?”
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