Edsurge

MAY 23, 2022

I’d like to see something emerge where both the customer and the company/service/platform/community have the same, positive long-term incentives to see [employees] succeed in their career. Edtech received an influx of investment last year, but some companies are now struggling, leading to dismal headlines about layoffs and declining stocks.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

This year’s 1 3th edition will swamp San Diego’s waterfront for four days and feature 1,000 speakers, including Thomas Friedman and Margaret Atwood, plus the buzziest for-profit companies in our industry. based education and workforce technology companies, together amounting to more than $150 billion in market capitalization.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Some of the podcasters got their start making educational videos or or producing MOOCs, those free online classes that were all the rage a few years ago, but ended up not living up to the hype. That’s the case for Davis, who for several years was a producer of video classes for HarvardX, Harvard’s MOOC production wing. “I

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

" I like to cite, as an example, a New Yorker article from a few years ago that interviewed Anthony Levandoski, the Uber engineer sued by Google for stealing its self-driving car technology. A critic of the company, Linkletter posted links to unlisted YouTube videos — that is, publicly available information — on Twitter.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Note: This article originally appeared in Stanford News. There are laws, both state and federal, and protocols that were established long before big data and the influx of outside companies into higher education. moment about the need for a big data code of ethics came soon after “MOOC mania” struck higher education in 2012.

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Data MOOC Conference Guidelines 123

Hack Education

JULY 7, 2017

” Some of these experimental sites included MOOCs and coding bootcamps. Via The Washington Post : “SEC settles fraud charges against defunct for-profit college company ITT.” Because honestly, where else would you put news about that private school company but in the surveillance section.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2022

The metaverse should probably reference them,” says Patel, who previously held positions at workforce-training companies Thinkful, On Deck and Maven. Some enthusiasm for the metaverse is coming from large companies, the type of entity that members of the crypto-community seem determined to work against. That includes higher education.

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Education Groups Robotics Course 177

Mark Smithers

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

New technologies revamped foreign language learning, in this article we highlight out what to expect in the upcoming years. Some methods will remain essential for developing language skills, such as MOOCs or tutoring. Chatting with robots. What if the teachers from the future are robots! Teaching languages with a tutor.

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Robotics MOOC Learning Smartphone 58

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Here is a list of all the articles I wrote as part of my look at the “ Top Ed-Tech Trends ” of the year. This year, I also published a number of supplemental articles detailing the funding for each of these “trends”: How Much Venture Capital Did Ed-Tech Raise in 2016? Who’s Funding MOOCs in 2016?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

.” Re-reading that article now makes me cringe. At the time, I wrote about the importance of APIs; the issues surrounding data security and privacy; the appeal of platforms for users and businesses; and the education and tech companies who were well-positioned (or at least wanting) to become education platforms.

Technology 62

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

As this article was being written, the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the world, forcing a global experiment in online education as schools and colleges closed their doors and moved teaching to online formats. Newkirk calls his company Acuitus , in hopes of encouraging sharpness of thought.

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Learning with 'e's

OCTOBER 11, 2013

The first principle in the article above relates to access, and states: "A mobile learning environment is about access to content, peers, experts, portfolio artifacts, credible sources, and previous thinking on relevant topics. Such large data sets can conceivably be sold on for a sizeable profit to companies who are interested.

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Mobile Learning Mobility Coursera MOOC 62

The Principal of Change

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

It was more of a refusal of Blockbuster to move forward than it was a willingness for a different company to do something different, and more importantly, better. ” The bulk of the article is not about literacy, but about math. They were the most well known, had stores all over the world, and a history of success. Want proof?

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Khan Academy MOOC Company Education 53

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Like many teachers, I would tap into the the Library of Congress, which would give me tips for teaching with primary sources , including quarterly journal articles on topics such as integrating historical and geographic thinking. Instead of being limited to my teaching and our textbook, we’d have access to an entire planet of experts.

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Study Libraries Wiki MOOC 191

Hack Education

APRIL 20, 2018

I’m also working on a magazine article that’ll come out this fall on education technology and venture capital. VCs often speak of having an “investment thesis” – a strategy for why they fund certain companies. It was everything y’all said it would be.

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Kaplan MOOC LMS Robotics 58

Edsurge

MAY 21, 2018

In the past year or so there's been a flurry of announcements from the big MOOC providers involving new degree programs based around their online courses. Earlier this year, for instance, Coursera announced six new degrees , including the first-ever MOOC-based Bachelors. Quite the opposite.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Article Written By: Hossein Rahnama. Another is the rise of the MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) or online instructional platforms like edX, Coursera, or Udacity. The conversation regarding higher education has never been more heated. About the Author: Hossein Rahnama.

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” There’s more on legal battles involving student loan companies in the business of financial aid section below. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). The student loan company has raised $803.6

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

As one professor at Pomona College, John Seery, wrote in a Huffington Post article , Nelson first approached Pomona about the partnership, but faculty there turned down the idea after some study. And traditional professors worry about a lack of traditional elements of a core curriculum and extracurriculars.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

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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Trends Coursera Company Personalized Learning 56

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 6, 2020

The following are a few examples of learning resources that are available for ongoing education outside of high school and university: Certification Programs – Certification programs are typically training programs that are offered by tech companies or other organizations outside of traditional academia.

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Khan Academy MOOC Course Software 255

Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 2, 2019

But how do they compete with resources like MOOCs and OERs that have made high quality course content from respected university professors available for free? A lot of media, telecom, eCommerce, software companies use this model, where customers pay for the service or product for a specific time period. a semester.

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OER Education MOOC Adaptive Learning 16

Bryan Alexander

MARCH 25, 2016

The company making this software claimed as an achievement to have prevented three suicides by detecting self-harm signals through pupils’ digital activity. She cited the recent Google artificial intelligence success AlphaGo ; I recommended this Wired article. This works in a low-stakes settings, like a MOOC.

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Trends ePortfolio Data Education 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

When I first started working as a tech reporter, I assumed – naively – that venture capitalists were smart people who did thorough research before funding a company. I assumed that they looked to see if the company could do what it promised – financially, technologically. One should be conscientious, as such.

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Trends MOOC Company Edmodo 93

Bryan Alexander

APRIL 12, 2016

I asked about how Jim’s company, Reclaim Hosting , is doing. esSurge mentions their article on APIs and Indie Ed Tech. He criticized the allure of universal solutions and totalizing narratives (the LMS, the MOOC). Which led to the second topic… II. RECLAIM HOSTING. 32 different institutions now use RH.

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 12, 2016

I asked about how Jim’s company, Reclaim Hosting , is doing. esSurge mentions their article on APIs and Indie Ed Tech. He criticized the allure of universal solutions and totalizing narratives (the LMS, the MOOC). Which led to the second topic… II. RECLAIM HOSTING. 32 different institutions now use RH.

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Trends LMS Data MOOC 40

Hack Education

MAY 6, 2020

As the Superintendent William Johnson wrote in an article in The New York Times a week after the experiment launched, So far as possible, fifteen minutes' time is given to each broadcast above the fourth grade. Like a MOOC, but in the school gym. 150,000 a year to lease coaxial cables from Bell Telephone Company, for example.

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Education Report Khan Academy Examples 140

Neo LMS

JUNE 16, 2020

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are also excellent resources, offering free classes from world-renowned universities. If you’ve read an interesting article or research paper, reach out to the author with your questions. As such, they might need to rely on technology to further their education. Take a degree course.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

The cost of starting a company has gone down because there are online tools you can use for free. The Wired article editorializes, “Unless every family homeschools their children—a prospect that even homeschooling advocates say is untenable—it will remain an individualized solution to a social need.” Adaptive learning apps.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

The stories that I write about the “Top Ed-Tech Trends” are the antithesis of most articles you’ll see about education technology that invoke “top” and “trends.” The very next day, Apple shares hit $97.80, an all-time high for the company. The quotation is from 2012. Fantasy. .”

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Trends Report iPhone Software 40

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

Check out our growing list of MOOCs and Courses on the EdSurge Index. Post articles and media on Facebook, Twitter, etc that is useful and interesting to your followers. First, create a target list of 10-50 companies, as well as employees that work in roles you are interested in at those companies.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2019

One article reported that Udacity, a company that creates large-scale online courses, budgeted $200,000 per course, while edX charged $250,000 for its design and consulting services.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

I’m in good company, as Keith Devlin is the first on that list and Veritasium’s Derek Muller is in there as well. In the long feature article in Time magazine on Khan Academy from July 9, 2012, it says (emphasis added): Khan is using the money [ from donations from Google, etc. ] The Time article has details.)

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 8, 2015

This leads to the “innovator’s dilemma,” described recently in The Economist as “the difficult choice an established company faces when it has to choose between holding onto an existing market by doing the same thing a bit better, or capturing new markets by embracing new technologies and adopting new business models.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Each week for the past eight or so years, I have gathered a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this has fed the series of articles I have written each December, analyzing the stories we have been told about the future of education. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”).

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MOOC Education Elsevier Report 78

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). Beyond the MOOC. The series kicks off on Saturday, 2 December.

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Technology MOOC Trends Khan Academy 58

Hack Education

DECEMBER 23, 2019

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. Cengage and McGraw-Hill announced a merger that would make the new company the second largest textbook publisher in the US. Good work, Adam and Rebekah.

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