Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2021

A few years ago, MOOCs graced the covers of newspapers as a way to bring college to the masses on the cheap. It was low-tech, but it foreshadowed some of the adaptive learning systems of today. As you listen to this encore episode, share your thoughts on Twitter under the hashtag #teachingfads.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

Please share in the comments or via Twitter. ”. For context, we need to go a little father back, to the piece last week on Wired– The Techies Who Are Hacking Education by Homeschooling Their Kids –that is getting a lot of run on twitter recently. So self-guided inquiry-based and mobile learning. Learning simulations.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) But Posterous, if you’ll recall, was acquired by Twitter in 2012 and shut down one year later. I’d love to provide a link but Andreessen deleted his blog in 2009.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 8, 2015

But as successive refinements improve them to the point that they start to steal customers, they may end up reshaping entire industries: classified ads (Craigslist), long distance calls (Skype), record stores (iTunes), research libraries (Google), local stores (eBay), taxis (Uber) and newspapers (Twitter).” MOOCs, nanodegrees, etc.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

“Hardly Anyone Wants to Take a Liberal Arts MOOC,” Edsurge informed its readers in February. ” The technology revolution has delivered Google searches, Facebook friends, iPhone apps, Twitter rants and shopping for almost anything on Amazon, all in the past decade and a half. See: the LMS, the MOOC.

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Technology Education Microsoft Industry 85

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ California Should Watch Arkansas Process for Creating New Online Institution,” says Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill. ” According to WCET , “Developing Effective Courses Using Adaptive Learning Begins with Proper Alignment.”

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Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2018

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via The Washington Post : “ A South Carolina school district just abolished snow days – and will make students learn online.” ” “ Twitter is funding college professors to audit its platform for toxicity,” writes The Verge.

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