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?A Starter Kit for Instructional Designers

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Designing online learning experiences is essential to training employees, mobilizing customers, serving students, building marketing channels, and sustaining business models. Start with the “big four” that most people have heard of: Coursera, Udacity, Udemy, and EdX. But listen for the underlying pain points.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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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. The learn-to-code company has raised $1.19

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via Edsurge : “ Coursera ’s First Ivy League Degree: An Online Master’s From the University of Pennsylvania.” ” ( Not mentioned : Penn was one of the very first investors in Coursera.). “ Was It Ethical for Dropbox to Share Customer Data with Scientists? ” asks The Atlantic.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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He was an instructor in one of several high-profile Coursera failures back in 2013. Winnie is a new mobile app that, according to Techcrunch , “helps parents find family-friendly places, share their experiences.” Data, Privacy, and Surveillance. ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”).

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

monthly subsidies toward cellular phone service or mobile broadband. ” A ruling from the Court of Justice of the European Union raises interesting questions about the ownership of student data : “Exam scripts and examiner’s corrections are personal data of the exam candidate.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Coursera has a new partner , the insurance company AXA , which will offer some 300 Coursera classes to its employees. Via KQED’s Mindshift : “ MIT’s Scratch Program Is Evolving For Greater, More Mobile Creativity.” “ Schools collect more data , but how is it used?”