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Will COVID-19 Lead to Another MOOC Moment?

Edsurge

Duke has long built MOOCs through its partnership with Coursera, a major platform for large-scale courses, and it also had previously negotiated an arrangement with Coursera to make all of the certificate programs and courses in Coursera’s library available to all of Duke’s students (in the U.S. As the virus spread to the U.S.,

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

Tom Webster, the VP of strategy at the market research firm Edison Research, argued that the report should be viewed as “an extremely effective piece of content marketing,” pointing to the number of slides that cite data about or by a portfolio company of Meeker’s employer, the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Smith Caulfield.

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How to push past limiting beliefs to uncover what’s truly possible in your teaching

The Cornerstone for Teachers

This article is written by Truth for Teachers writer Jay Benedith. Students’ care more about social media and games than their school work. In addition to university settings, you might try online learning platforms such as Coursera or Linkedin Learning. Students are not really learning!”. Find your tribe.

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How to push past limiting beliefs to uncover what’s truly possible in your teaching

The Cornerstone for Teachers

This article is written by Truth for Teachers writer Jay Benedith. Students’ care more about social media and games than their school work. In addition to university settings, you might try online learning platforms such as Coursera or Linkedin Learning. Students are not really learning!”. Find your tribe.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via The Washington Post : “SEC settles fraud charges against defunct for-profit college company ITT.” Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill follows up on the Edsurge article with his own analysis : “ MOOCs Now Focused on Paid Certificates and OPM Market.” ” The company in question is called Sqore.

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The Stories We Were Told about Education Technology (2019)

Hack Education

That's what a decade of ed-tech social media and PR have wrought: hashtag gurus and fake news. Far too many articles — and this is surely what its venture capitalist and philanthropist backers hope — have not reflected the landscape but have tried instead to shape it. WeWork closed its K-12 school this year. (It

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Securities and Exchange Commission for allegedly sharing five school districts’ private information with an advisory company while it was negotiating for the districts’ contracts.” ” Coursera, initially only emailing former students about their old course work, decided finally to blog about its platform change. .”