Edsurge

JULY 9, 2016

When Massive Open Online Courses (or MOOCs) were first introduced, people quickly realized these platforms could help students learn more effectively at their own pace on their own schedule. Formal” education was no longer constrained to traditional classroom hours, if it ever was.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Vox on segregation in US public schools : “We can draw school zones to make classrooms less segregated. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” The school: the Electronic Classroom of the Future.

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Hack Education

JULY 13, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). “ Microsoft Hopes to Revive Its Education Tablet Efforts With the New $399 Surface Go,” says Edsurge. National) Education Politics. ” asks Edsurge.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Via The Star Online : “ Germany plans to invest an extra €5 billion over the next five years to equip more than 40,000 schools and colleges with faster internet, wireless access points and tablet computers, the Education Minister said.” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Education in the Courts.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, The Flipped Classroom". Um, they do.)

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Hack Education

JUNE 29, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” Via Education Week : “A bill shielding what is now Ohio ’s largest online school and its sponsor from the negative consequences of accepting thousands of former Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow students is headed to Gov.

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Hack Education

MAY 19, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “Why Haven’t MOOCs Eliminated Any Professors?” Via The New York Times : “How Google Took Over the Classroom.” ” There’s a lot in this superb article – data, surveillance, testing, costs, branding.

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Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Here’s The Chronicle headline from then : “Professor Leaves a MOOC in Mid-Course in Dispute Over Teaching.”) Good thing I never did anything in those MOOCs, otherwise I'd be losing my work. Remember Richard McKenzie? ” asks Edsurge.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Although the shooting is a local story, I am putting many of the articles here in the national section because, over a week later, it is still very much in the national headlines. National) Education Politics. Katzmann in The Trace.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). It’s baaaaack: “Return of the MOOC ,” The City Journal tells us. There’s some (sorta) MOOC-related news in the venture funding section below. .”

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Via ELearning Inside : “An Emirati City Is Giving Tablets to Every K–2 Learner As Part of its Lughati Initiative.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). National) Education Politics.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Take, for example, ProPublica ’s article on Donald Trump’s son-in-law and “consigliere”: “ The Story Behind Jared Kushner’s Curious Acceptance into Harvard.”). As I wrote in my article on “ the ‘new’ economy ,” automation, so we’re told, is poised to reshape “work.”

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Class Central : “ XuetangX : A Look at China’s First and Biggest MOOC Platform.” This is an old article on Medium but it’s worth reposting in light of this story: “The Dirty Little Secrets About The Worst Coding Bootcamps Out There.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

” That’s the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow , which is already having to repay Ohio some $60 million. ” See how many factual errors you can find in this article! Meanwhile, the state has given initial approval for ECOT to become a “dropout school.” ” Immigration and Education. .”

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