Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

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

JUNE 10, 2016

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Here’s The Chronicle headline from then : “Professor Leaves a MOOC in Mid-Course in Dispute Over Teaching.”) Good thing I never did anything in those MOOCs, otherwise I'd be losing my work. Data, Privacy, and Surveillance. public schools.”

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Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Skepticism about the quality of online learning could migrate to the general population. And the MOOC numbers look like they’re rising. Unless the worm turns globally, I’d expect planet MOOC to keep growing in 2016. Big data and data analytics : interest in this is widespread and has some hefty power behind it.

Trends 40

Trends Technology MOOC Education 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow. ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) They’re supposedly “engines of innovation.”

Technology 62

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2017

” 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.” Via the Indianapolis Business Journal : “Legal skirmishes break out over ITT documents, data.”

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Khan Academy Elsevier Education MOOC 46

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Standard Digital : “School abandons computer lessons as tablets remains unpowered.” ” That’s the Nalekat Primary School in Kenya which has government issued tablets but no power to charge them. .” Of course. million total.

Education 46

Education Company Data Elsevier 46

Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). That student data is big bucks? ” Also via Techcrunch : “ Facebook brings Messenger Kids to Fire tablets.” The English-language-learning company has raised $608 million total. ” “What’s Slack Doing With Your Data?”

Education 43

Education Company Blackboard Kaplan 43