Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

“Nothing has more potential to enable us to reimagine higher education than the massive open online course, or MOOC, platforms that are being developed by the likes of Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and companies like Coursera and Udacity.” But I face them all the time, particularly on Twitter.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 16, 2013

There are eight conference strands covering a wide variety of timely topics, such as MOOCs, e-books, maker spaces, mobile services, embedded librarians, green libraries, doctoral student research, library and information center "tours," and more! We have 146 accepted conference sessions and ten keynote addresses. inek vizsgálata - Szöll?si

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 8, 2015

This post is actually intended to supplement the “Cycle of Learning Innovation” model that will be publishing tomorrow (7.7.2015), which means this is less about analysis and context and more about the examples. MOOCs, nanodegrees, etc. First, some quick clarification so that we have a common language.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

And they could be critical for baseline analysis of student skills and formative assessment. Claims on Twitter : Students read a tweet and explain why it might or might not be a useful source of information. Argument Analysis : Students compare and evaluate two posts from a newspaper’s comment section. For more information.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

This series is meant to serve in-depth exploration of the events of the past year and an analysis of how these events shape the way in which we imagine and prepare for the future of teaching and learning. Beyond the MOOC. School and “Skills” MOOCS, Outsourcing, and Online Education. MOOCs and Anti-MOOCs.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2017

They can be something everybody uses; that’s how 2012 became the year of the MOOC, and why virtual reality will no doubt be widely cited as the trend of 2016. MOOCs continued to increase in number and attendance. Follow her on Twitter at @TeachitRalph. By Stephen Downes, National Research Council.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

When the AP United States history students at Aragon High School in San Mateo California, scanned the professionally designed pages of www.minimumwage.com , most concluded that it was a solid, unbiased source of facts and analysis. This isn’t just a problem with kids,” said Wineburg.

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Hack Education

JUNE 17, 2016

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). That is, major social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter increasingly made it difficult for ThinkUp to work with their APIs. ” Via the AP : “2 ex- El Paso schools administrators guilty in testing scam.”

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Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2017

“The Year of the MOOC” – I was summoned to Palo Alto, California for a small gathering to discuss the future of teaching, learning, and technology. Perhaps with this data, the MOOC providers can build a map of professional if not cognitive pathways. It just hooked them all up on Twitter.).

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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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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. ” Via KTNV : “ Foothill High School regains control of Twitter account after hack.” ” asks Bryan Alexander.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2018

billion over 10 years, according to an Education Department cost analysis, Politico reported this week.” ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “ Twitter is funding college professors to audit its platform for toxicity,” writes The Verge. ” JFC. ” Great.

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Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). In related MOOC news, there's more on “ nanodegrees ” in the “credentialing” section below. Because up ’til now, MOOCs were the most brilliant data mining app ever.). But how do they compare to the old one and the ACT ?”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

It is the instructional designer and tenured professor’s signal — “to the barricades!” — and everyone snipes at the other side from the Twitter trenches for a week, until there’s an unspoken truce that lasts until the next “ban laptops” op-ed gets published. MOOCs are, no surprise, their own entry on this long list of awfulness.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 19, 2018

.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news in the job training section below. ” More on teen social media usage, this time from Buzzfeed : “‘Tweetdecking’ Is Taking Over Twitter. Doane University has joined edX.

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Hack Education

MARCH 17, 2017

As CNN reporter Andrew Kaczynski noted on Twitter Tuesday, Eck, who is now a special assistant to Secretary DeVos, tweeted last November that Hamill should ‘stick to playing Han Solo’s short little b—-’ after Hamill tweeted criticism of the Trump administration.” Are MOOCs webinars? Are webinars now MOOCs?).

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 13, 2016

There was a regularly updated Facebook page, a Twitter account, as well as a LinkedIn profile for its supposed president. ” MOOCs for credit. ” The blockchain was hyped by the World Economic Forum – remember when it thought MOOCs were the next big thing? Keep Away From Coding Schools.” Microcredentials.

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Hack Education

JUNE 2, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Here’s a link to all the stories in Slate’s series on online credit recovery programs. “After the Hype, Do MOOC Ventures Like edX Still Matter?” The coding bootcamp Andela is expanding into Uganda , Techcrunch reports. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 5, 2016

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Remember when Twitter announced that it was donating its archive to the Library of Congress ? MOOCs, CAI, and now this. ” Via JSTOR : “The Bloody Results of Mexico ’s High-Stakes School Testing.” ” asks The Hechinger Report.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

” I’ve looked at how for-profit colleges , MOOCs , and learn-to-code companies have tapped into these narratives in order to justify their products and services. Don’t mess with her on Twitter. These have all been separate articles in each series. Watch Tressie McMillan Cottom on The Daily Show. Training Ed-Tech.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Related, via Wired : “ Pro-Gun Russian Bots Flood Twitter After Parkland Shooting.” .” There’s more on Singularity University, which announced it has raised over $30 million in venture capital, in the venture capital section below.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

” Via The New York Times : “ Kremlin Cash Behind Billionaire’s Twitter and Facebook Investments.” ” Via The Guardian : “ Russia funded Facebook and Twitter investments through Kushner associate.” And from Phil Hill : “A Note on Data Used for LMS Market Analysis.”

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Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

“ Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : ”Why Twitter Is Calling Abigail Fisher ’ Becky With the Bad Grades ’: A Brief Explainer.” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Thank goodness for education journalism. “Is Estonia the new Finland ?”

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Twitter announced big layoffs this week – 9% of its staff – and said it would shutter its video app Vine. An Organizational Network Analysis of Nonmajor Philanthropic Giving in K12 Education” by Joseph J. Upgrades and Downgrades.

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