Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

” That’s Joel Rose ’s School of One software. ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “ Andrew Ng , Co-Founder of Coursera , Returns to MOOC Teaching With New AI Course.” Via the Coursera blog : “What’s Next in Employee Learning: Virtual Reality.”

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Hack Education

APRIL 14, 2017

Via The New York Times : “ Rolling Stone Settles Lawsuit Over Debunked Campus Rape Article.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via the Coursera blog : “New mobile features: Transcripts, notes, and reminders.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Education in the Courts.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

I’d hardly know where to begin in writing one, but I want to open this particular article – one that focuses, in part, on the whole “everyone should learn to code” craze – recognizing his great contribution to educational computing as well as his loss. Read Mindstorms. ” ).

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Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2017

We can speculate, I suppose, about what the analogous battles might be in education – which corporation will sue which corporation, claiming they “own” learning data and learning roadmaps and learning algorithms and learning software IP. “Robots are coming for your job.” Robots don’t apply for jobs.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Via Techcrunch : “ Holberton gets backing from more industry executives as it looks to scale its software engineering school.” Edsurge profiles Dr. Chuck about his work on MOOCs with Coursera. ( No disclosure in this or its Class Central article that it shares investors with these MOOC companies.).

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

I missed this news earlier in April, via Class Central : financial aid applications for Coursera take at least 15 days. ” Nope, robots will not be doing this job of content moderation , as Facebook recently boasted at its developer conference. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Not sure why this is called a MOOC.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 19, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. There’s an article in the venture philanthropy section below about how private student loans are being pitched as “impact investing.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. National) Education Politics.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Or the company will have to start charging for the software. 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, Um, they do.)

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. The featured article : “13 Stories of Life on a Teacher’s Salary.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Probably my favorite “robots are the future of education” story in a good, long while.

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Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

Via ABC News : “ A defamation lawsuit against Rolling Stone magazine over the magazine’s debunked article about a University of Virginia gang rape was tossed out by a judge Tuesday. “ Robots won’t replace teachers because they can’t inspire us.” District Judge P. ” Try learning styles, maybe.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill analyzes a recent interview with Coursera ’s CEO and argues the MOOC provider is “betting on OPM market and shift to low-cost masters degrees.” Icon credits: The Noun Project

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Hack Education

JULY 14, 2017

” More on the Afghan robotics team in the contest section below. ” Via Education Dive : “ Coursera ’s Tom Willerer talks personalization, access.” for Robotics Contest.” ” Adaptive software is not the same as personalized learning , says eSchool News. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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Education Pearson Report Robotics 45

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

“ From the article that ”innovative teaching practice" appears to be project-based learning. ” The article is accompanied by a photo of a classroom full of Asian students – as if Asian is not American. Via The Washington Post : "Betsy DeVos lauds innovative teaching practices at awards ceremony.“

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Education Facebook Company Report 45

Hack Education

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Via Forbes : “This Company Could Be Your Next Teacher: Coursera Plots A Massive Future For Online Education.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. The robot presents as a black female? Wait wait wait.

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Education MOOC Robotics Panasonic 51

Hack Education

OCTOBER 26, 2018

*Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. “ Coursera ’s 2018 Revenue Estimated to be $140 million,” Class Central estimates. Remember: the biases of engineers and managers get baked into the software you use. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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Hack Education

JUNE 22, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” That’s a school district in Wisconsin , and the learning software in question is the Summit Learning Platform , created by the Summit charter school chain and built by Facebook and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

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Hack Education

MAY 26, 2017

” Via Education Week : “ Iowa schools to stop using $14M testing software after audit.” ” According to this Techcrunch article , MOOCs like Udacity and Coursera weren’t working out for AirBnB so now it is “running its own internal university to teach data science.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 8, 2016

million in charges from a Minnesota company over a software system that repeatedly failed during mandatory statewide elementary school testing.” ” “ Coursera Monthly Subscriptions Channel Lynda and Pluralsight ,” says EduKwest’s Kirsten Winkler. college testing scam , to be deported.”

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