Hack Education

JUNE 17, 2016

Headline changed from “ Coursera ’s Update Will Eliminate Hundreds of Courses” to “Coursera’s Update Will Migrate Hundreds of Courses to a New Platform.” ” asks The Economist in an article about coding bootcamps. “Should for-profit crash courses get federal funds?”

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AUGUST 19, 2016

Coursera ’s Daphne Koller announced in a blog post that she’s leaving the MOOC company she co-founded to work at a Alphabet (a.k.a. Coursera’s other founder, Andrew Ng, left the startup several years ago to join the Chinese search engine Baidu. .” million people since 2003.” Nice job there, Googler.).

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JANUARY 10, 2020

Making Sense of the News: News Literacy Lessons for Digital Citizens (by the University of Hong Kong and Stony Brook University): A six-week, distance learning course hosted on Coursera. It's best suited to educators or advanced students looking for a challenge and to dig deeper into news literacy and journalism.

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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. ” ). Google’s Alphabet Inc.

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MARCH 30, 2017

As Recode wrote in that recent article, Successfully creating self-driving technology has become a crucial factor to Uber’s profitability. A couple of years ago, there was a popular article in circulation in the US that claimed that the most common occupation in every state is “truck driver.” They don’t strike.

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AUGUST 31, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Via the Coursera blog : “Announcing the Global MBA from Macquarie University.” There’s a lot to think about here, as Natasha Singer rightly pointed out on Twitter , as this might related to Big Ed-Tech. That is all.

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OCTOBER 14, 2016

” That for-profit is Laureate Education , the largest chain of for-profit schools in the world and an investor in Coursera. ” The answer, in part, is in this Buzzfeed article by Molly Hensley-Clancy : “ Native American Colleges Have Abandoned The Student Loan System.” ” He was 7. ” More via The NYT.

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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.” National) Education Politics. The Business of Financial Aid. The Business of Job Training.

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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.” All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. In the meantime, it also depresses the hell out of me.

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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, Um, they do.) And everyone clicks and rages and snipes all over again.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” How a Montessori classroom of fourth graders is like an International Baccalaureate classroom is a real article – and a good demonstration of how Montessori can be reshaped to fit any agenda. National) Education Politics.

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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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JUNE 24, 2016

“ Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : ”Why Twitter Is Calling Abigail Fisher ’ Becky With the Bad Grades ’: A Brief Explainer.” From the Coursera blog : “Coursera pilots a new course format.” In other Coursera news : “ Atlassian sponsors computer science learners on Coursera.”

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NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Coursera announces on its blog that it’s expanding to Brazil. Here’s Coursera arguing “Why Everyone Should Learn Sales.” Perhaps I need to start a new section in this article where I look at these sorts of b t predictions and proclamations and cliches. .” “Whatever Happened To MOOCs ?”

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DECEMBER 8, 2016

” “ Coursera Monthly Subscriptions Channel Lynda and Pluralsight ,” says EduKwest’s Kirsten Winkler. Via The Guardian : “ Facebook , Twitter , Google and Microsoft team up to tackle extremist content.” ” “Is Ed-Tech research nearing its ’ Big Tobacco’ moment ?”

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