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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) ” MOOCs looked – for a short while, at least – like they were going to pivot to become LMSes. How is Google influencing policy? How is Google influencing research?

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A Call For Homeschool 2.0

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So self-guided inquiry-based and mobile learning. Adaptive learning apps. Learning simulations. Learning here becomes less about curriculum and more about possibility. While short on experts, rules, and policies, a home has agility and “scale” that a school necessarily lacks. Dosomething.org.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Just a few weeks after Daphne Koller ’s announcement she was leaving the MOOC startup she co-founded, Coursera unveiled “ Coursera for Business ” this week, marking its pivot from “democratizing higher ed” to “ training corporate employees.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” More on the policy change via IHE. 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.

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The Rough Beasts of Ed-Tech

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I’m not sure we talk often enough about technology-enhanced learning in these terms – as a political not merely pedagogical practice. What are MOOCs, for example? What are virtual learning environments? What are we promising? What else is really a humbug? What else might be a fraud? What is virtual reality?

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

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“Hardly Anyone Wants to Take a Liberal Arts MOOC,” Edsurge informed its readers in February. ” “Trump’s neo industrial policies won’t create these jobs,” he added. Nor, I’d argue, will a fixation on simply “learning to code.” See: the LMS, the MOOC.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Class Central : “ TU Delft Students Can Earn Credit For MOOCs From Other Universities.” The “adaptive learning” company has raised $23.5 McCarthyism is back,” writes David Palumbo-Liu. Smart Sparrow has raised $7.5

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