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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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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.”) ” Re-reading that article now makes me cringe.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). “Lifelong learning” and multiple choice quizzes for two to five year olds. Pi-top , the maker of a Raspberry Pi-compatible laptop, has raised $16 million from Hambro Perks and Committed Capital. Sounds like fun. ” Markets responded.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Ban Laptops" Op-Eds. For the past ten years, every ten months or so, someone would pen an op-ed claiming it was time to ban laptops in the classroom. For their part, critics of laptop bans claimed the studies the op-eds frequently cite were flawed, reductive, and out-of-date. WTF is Unizin ?! Collared Dove. And on and on and on.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). In related MOOC news, there's more on “ nanodegrees ” in the “credentialing” section below. ” [Insert Course Signals learning analytics joke here.]. Because up ’til now, MOOCs were the most brilliant data mining app ever.).