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. Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?). Buy them a beer when you see them at an event and thank them for covering the LMS industry so I don’t have to.

Technology 62

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

I’ve called this “the Top Ed-Tech Trends,” but this has never been an SEO-optimized list of products that the ed-tech industry wants schools or parents or companies to buy (or that it claims schools and parents and companies are buying). Learning to Code. Education Data and Learning Analytics.

Technology 58

Technology MOOC Trends Khan Academy 58

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

And I won’t dwell too much on the military either – how military industrial complexes point us towards technological industrial complexes (and to ed-tech industrial complexes in turn). The first punch cards were developed to control the loom, industrializing the craft of weaving women around 1725. Control. .”

Data 40

Data Software Company System 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. 3D printing, The Economist pronounced in 2012 , was poised to bring about the third industrial revolution. (I

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

This year feels different too than the previous years in which I’ve written these reviews because education technology – as an industry – sort of floundered in 2016, as I think my series will show. It’s from these weekly and monthly reports that I start to build my analysis. Learning to Code.

Trends 40

Trends MOOC Khan Academy Maker Movement 40

Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

Lots of goings-on this week in the loan industry. ” [Insert Course Signals learning analytics joke here.]. I really don’t understand how the investment analysis firm categorizes ed-tech. The for-profit higher ed chain Education Management Corporation will lay off some 200 employees. ” ( PDF ). .”

Education 52

Education Pearson Report MOOC 52

Hack Education

DECEMBER 10, 2017

.“ And yet, even in the face of ongoing pushback against data collection and concerns about data insecurity – from parents , educators, students, and others – even with the hundreds of hacks and breaches, some industry groups do still try to argue that that ”Your Concerns About Student Privacy Are Being Exploited."

Data 78

Data Education Software Social Media 78

Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2017

million gift from the Charles Koch Foundation and Koch Industries , a well-known opponent of government spending on things like public education (among other things). Via Zion Market Research : “ Massive Open Online Course Market : Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends, and Forecasts 2016-2024.”

MOOC 40

MOOC Education Robotics Report 40

Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Meanwhile, over at Edsurge : “A Small Liberal Arts School Becomes a Testing Ground for the ‘ Facebook of Learning Management Systems ’ ” Also via Edsurge : “Pursuing Academic Freedom and Data Privacy Is a Balancing Act.” ” Via the Pacific Standard : “ Google ’s Broken Privacy Promise.”

Education 40

Education Pearson Blackboard Survey 40