Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2019

What lessons can be learned from the rise and pivot of MOOCs, those large-scale online courses that proponents said would disrupt higher education? At the start of the MOOC trend in 2012, the promise was that the free online courses could reach students who could not afford or get access to other forms of higher education.

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Wired Campus

AUGUST 6, 2015

George Siemens is a key innovator in higher education, having coined the term “MOOC” and worked to study the effectiveness of online learning. It’s a new world on most campuses, never mind the online, competency, and related systems.”. It has given us Facebook and Silicon Valley and the drivers of U.S.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 20, 2014

He is one of the pioneers of online and distance learning, and currently serves as the editor of the influential online open access journal International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning ( IRRODL ). Providing access was then and still remains my biggest motivation. We also wanted to find an open access publisher.

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

For example, this story from the School Library Journal : “ Charter Schools , Segregation , and School Library Access.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Lots of news this week about Facebook and Cambridge Analytica. Minnesota Confronts a National Quandary.” Upgrades and Downgrades.

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 10, 2012

Educators who join receive a free ebook and have access to several videos and podcasts to help them achieve their goals. More importantly they get to reflect upon these goals on Twitter, Facebook, or on their blogs and receive the support of many educators also accomplishing these goals. What are the barriers to good learning?

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Educator Innovator

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Her question prompts educators to not only choose their words and stories carefully, but to reflect on how well we plan for increased access to digital tools in schools. Technologists like Campbell, like me, see increased access as an opportunity to strengthen teaching and accelerate learning that schools may not recognize, much less seize.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Samantha Adams Becker taught the first online course ever to take place in Facebook. The themes are: Increasing Access and Discovery Opportunities; Emphasis on Mobile; Content Management and Technical Infrastructure; and Rethinking the Roles and Relationships of Librarians.

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Bryan Alexander

MAY 18, 2022

Here are the suggestions which rolled in via Twitter , LinkedIn, Facebook, email, etc. Canvas – a popular learning management system/virtual learning environment for institutions, there is also a Free-for-Teacher service which might do the trick. Udemy – the MOOC provider may let users create classes there.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Nor has it stopped Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg from making “personalized learning” a centerpiece of his venture philanthropy firm’s education work or from vowing to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on it. Absorb (learning management system) – $59 million. Whatever “it” is. million this year).

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Mark Smithers

AUGUST 24, 2015

In the late 90’s, learning management systems came along and universities said great, now academics don’t need to know any of that technical stuff, they can just use the web interface in the LMS. No wonder they go and create their own Facebook groups. I thought every academic would be able to do this and would want to do this.

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Mark Smithers

AUGUST 24, 2015

In the late 90’s, learning management systems came along and universities said great, now academics don’t need to know any of that technical stuff, they can just use the web interface in the LMS. No wonder they go and create their own Facebook groups. I thought every academic would be able to do this and would want to do this.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Facebook Argument : Students consider the relative strength of evidence that two users present in a Facebook exchange. News on Facebook : Students identify the blue checkmark that distinguishes a verified Facebook account from a fake one.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). A glimpse : “In China ’s Silicon Valley, Edtech Starts at the ‘MOOC Times Building’ ” Via Class Central : “By The Numbers: MOOCs in 2018.” It’s like the MOOC crap all over again. ” asks The Atlantic.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

It’s not really “free Internet,” of course – it’s Facebook as Internet. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “Aftermath of the MOOC wars: Can commercial vendors support creative higher education ? A Wi-Fi system. Raise $146.1 ” Um, like Juliet?

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

All this happened in the larger context of news from the US school system itself. As concerns about “fake news” make clear, Silicon Valley’s influence also extends to how we access information and build knowledge; it extends to the stories we hear and share. Beyond the MOOC. MOOCs and Anti-MOOCs.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Via Mother Jones : “How the Justice Department Is Trying to Dismantle Georgia ’s Segregated Special-Education System.” The lawsuit contends that the publisher is “ predatory ” because it charges scholars to have their work published in open-access journals. ” Presidential Campaign Politics.

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Bryan Alexander

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

It describes a meeting of MOOC evangelists, several university leaders, and the press at the Carnegie Corporation’s offices. [T]he If you sympathize with this Revolution, or with MOOCs, this is a moving affirmation. The MOOC movement (or moment) is one tool for accomplishing this. The epilogue is quite simple.

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Hack Education

APRIL 13, 2018

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before Congress this week about privacy, data, monopoly power, and regulations. And there’s more Facebook-related news in several of the sections below. ” Via The Verge : “ Facebook -backed lawmakers are pushing to gut privacy law.” (National) Education Politics.

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Hack Education

MAY 25, 2018

” Also via NPR : “‘I Hope This Will Set A Precedent,’ Says Trans Teen Who Won Case Over Bathroom Access.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). MOOCs are back in the headlines again. Via Edsurge : “The Second Wave of MOOC Hype Is Here, and It’s Online Degrees.”

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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.” Two school districts in two states are scaling back their use of the Facebook -built Summit Public Schools ’ learning management system. A call to rebrand MOOCs , from Edsurge.

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Hack Education

APRIL 14, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via the Coursera blog : “New mobile features: Transcripts, notes, and reminders.” " It’s lovely to see the big innovation from the MOOC startups in 2017 involves the learning management system. ” asks The Atlantic. Not really.

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Hack Education

APRIL 21, 2017

Testing, Testing… Via Education Week : “ Rhode Island drops unpopular standardized test system.” ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via WCTI12.com ” “ MOOCs Started Out Completely Free. ” “Shut Up About Financial Literacy ,” says Sara Goldrick-Rab.

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Hack Education

MAY 18, 2018

of Texas System Apologizes for Revoking Nepali Students ’ Scholarships.” ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ UMass-Boston Faculty Votes No Confidence in System’s Leaders Over Purchase of Small College.” It has raised $69.7

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Hack Education

JUNE 17, 2016

Isn’t Liberia outsourcing its education system to a Gates and Zuckerberg-backed startup , Bridge International Academies ? ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). That is, major social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter increasingly made it difficult for ThinkUp to work with their APIs.

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Hack Education

JULY 20, 2018

“The FCC Is Threatening to Gut a Program That Provides Internet Access to Minorities,” Pacific Standard reports. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news in the credential section below. ” asks Pacific Standard. The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2016

When Massive Open Online Courses (or MOOCs) were first introduced, people quickly realized these platforms could help students learn more effectively at their own pace on their own schedule. Instead, they are an extremely convenient way for students to access the information that is critical to their success both inside and outside school.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Department of Education at a convening here yesterday awarded recognition to 10 educational technology projects aiming to expand access to education and pipelines to the work force,” Inside Higher Ed reports. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). 4X faster than Facebook. “The U.S.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2018

” Gentrification is forcing poor people out of the city; segregated school systems follow them to new locations. ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Class Central : “A Product at Every Price: A Review of MOOC Stats and Trends in 2017.”

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Hack Education

APRIL 6, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). “The MOOC is not dead, but maybe it should be,” says Rolin Moe. ” Inside Higher Ed looks at how the North Dakota University System is “Blocking Child Porn on Campus.” Reminder that Facebook built the Summit Learning Platform.).

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Via The New Yorker : “ Georgia ’s Separate and Unequal Special-Education System.” ” Also Facebook ’s DC lobbyist, Joel Kaplan, who was sitting right behind Kavanaugh as he screamed at Senators. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Gotta keep that MOOC hype alive.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “Stop Asking About Completion Rates: Better Questions to Ask About MOOCs in 2019,” says Edsurge. .” ” “Stop Asking About Completion Rates: Better Questions to Ask About MOOCs in 2019,” says Edsurge. What are these jobs?

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Via Politico : “The Kansas Supreme Court rejected the state’s school funding system in a ruling issued Monday that found it runs afoul of the state’s constitution by failing to adequately and equitably fund its school districts.” .” Via The Washington Post : “ D.C. ” Education in the Courts.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2018

Via Education Week : “ Trump Signs Orders on Rural Broadband Access.” ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “A Pennsylvania judge has banned fraternity Pi Delta Psi from the state for a decade, a punishment for a hazing death in 2013, and an unprecedented step likely to rock the national Greek system.” News at 11.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Via Education Week : “One million high school students from low-income families will receive free internet access under President Barack Obama’s ’ My Brother’s Keeper’ initiative for minority males, the White House announced.” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Small world).

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Hack Education

JUNE 23, 2017

Via Inside Higher Ed : “The British government releases the results … of its new three-tiered rating system of teaching quality at universities.” Via Buzzfeed : “ Betsy DeVos Picked A Student Loan CEO To Run The Student Loan System.” ” Because, you know, Facebook’s mission is “community.”

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

For nearly 30 years, Medicaid has helped school systems cover costs for special education services and equipment, from physical therapists to feeding tubes. ” The Department of Education has rehired student loan debt collectors fired by the Obama Administration: Enterprise Recovery Systems and Navient-owned Pioneer Credit Recovery.

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Hack Education

JULY 13, 2018

” Via Inside Higher Ed : “A Virginia circuit court on Thursday ruled against a George Mason University student group seeking access to donor agreements between a university foundation and the Charles Koch Foundation.” ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Upgrades and Downgrades.

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