Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

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.) In 2013 it was all about Khan Academy; in 2017, MOOCs; today the new hotness is AI. Does Khan realize this?

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

The free assessments include Google Docs assessments to copy and digital rubrics to download. The twenty assessments include: Evaluating Wikipedia : Students evaluate the trustworthiness of an article on Wikipedia, assessing whether they can reason about the specific features that make a Wikipedia article more or less reliable.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” The race for the California State Superintendent is still undecided – at least as I type up this article, it is. ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Education in the Courts. on Coursera.”

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Via The New York Times : “ Rolling Stone Faces Revived Lawsuit Over Campus Rape Article.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “Peter Thiel May Finally Get His Flying Cars, Thanks to a New Udacity Nanodegree in 2018.” ” Education in the Courts.

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Hack Education

JUNE 17, 2016

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” asks The Economist in an article about coding bootcamps. Investors in this round were the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, CRE Venture Capital, Learn Capital, Omidyar Network, Google Ventures, and Spark Capital. What could possibly go wrong?

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Hack Education

MARCH 8, 2022

" I like to cite, as an example, a New Yorker article from a few years ago, an interview with an Uber engineer who'd pleaded guilty to stealing Google's self-driving car technology. "The only thing that matters is the future," he told the magazine. Tall tales about the invention of the MOOC.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Class Central : “ TU Delft Students Can Earn Credit For MOOCs From Other Universities.” National) Education Politics. ” $3000 for three headsets.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Politico : Western Governors University , “the nation’s leading provider of competency-based educatio n – which the Education Department’s independent watchdog last month said violated federal student aid rules – is expanding into North Carolina.”

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 14, 2016

” President Obama talked to Wired magazine about artificial intelligence, Mars, self-driving cars, Star Trek and more. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Microsoft -Branded MOOCs for K–12 Leaders.” Department of Education announced Wednesday.”

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Brown University joins edX. “ Y Combinator MOOC for Tech Startups Attracts Thousands of Views,” says Campus Technology. Not sure why this is called a MOOC. CNN tries to explain “Why Google , Apple and Microsoft are battling for education.”

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Hack Education

JANUARY 18, 2017

The New York Times Magazine interviews the new Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden. ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ MOOC enrollment drops at HarvardX and MITx after free certifications disappear ,” says Techcrunch. .” Yes, the department is now on GitHub.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 31, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Speaking of Michigan State and Nassar, via The State News : “Original MSU alumni magazine leaked.” National) Education Politics. That is all. ” Infuriating.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Gotta keep hyping that MOOC thing. Via Edsurge : “ MOOCs Are No Longer Massive. National) Education Politics. ” The timing of all of this is rich.

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Hack Education

JULY 27, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news from Edsurge in the “job training” section below. ” Via Bloomberg : “Inside Google ’s Shadow Workforce.”

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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. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). District Judge P. ” Try learning styles, maybe.

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Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

” asks New York Magazine. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Lots of MOOC PR appeared in the news this week. ” “What if MOOCs Revolutionize Education After All?” “Now that MOOCs are mainstream, where does online learning go next?” ” asks Edsurge.

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Hack Education

MAY 19, 2017

” asks The New York Times Magazine. ” 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.” Via The New York Times : “Free Tuition? Upgrades and Downgrades.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 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”). Via The New York Magazine : “The Class of 1946–2018 Twenty-seven school-shooting survivors bear their scars, and bear witness.” National) Education Politics.

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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

JANUARY 12, 2017

EDITED TO ADD: Apparently, The Guardian article is not quite right. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” edX is offering an online master’s degree with Georgia Tech : an OMS (online master’s in science) in Analytics. The Economist on “ The Return of the MOOC.”

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Nicole Eramo, a former dean of students, is suing the magazine for $7.9 Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Class Central : “ XuetangX : A Look at China’s First and Biggest MOOC Platform.” Inside Higher Ed has the story – and the censored article. More via NPR.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” Via The Oregonian’s Bethany Barnes : “ Portland police inaction on child porn case against teacher ‘concerning’ ” Via New York Magazine : “ Mark Zuckerberg Is Trying to Transform Education.

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Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

” “Schools, Libraries Miss Out on Millions in E-Rate Funds,” according to EdTech Magazine – some $245 million for the 2014 fiscal year. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Via San Francisco Magazine : “A Kindergarten Teacher May Be Evicted from Her Mission Apartment.

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Hack Education

JUNE 8, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Techcrunch : “ Udacity and Google launch free career courses for interview prep, resume writing and more.” National) Education Politics.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

Via The New York Times : “ Google , in Post-Obama Era, Aggressively Woos Republicans ” – so enjoy that Google Certification, educators. Via Education Week : “ Mississippi Attorney General Sues Google Over Student-Data Privacy.” ” That’d be Hugo Barra , a former Google exec.

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Hack Education

MAY 26, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Slate : “ The New Diploma Mills.” ” 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

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Via the New York Magazine : “The Death of Vine Makes the Internet a Worse Place.” ” Google announced it was cutting jobs in its Google Fiber division. And Google has put plans to expand Fiber to more cities on hold. The CEO has resigned.

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