Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Gotta keep that MOOC hype alive. “ MOOCs Find a New Audience with On-Campus Students,” Edsurge claims. ” Via the ACT press release : “ ACT to Deliver Assessment for the Moral Education Program to Students in the UAE.”

Education 55

Education Chegg MOOC Robotics 55

Hack Education

OCTOBER 27, 2017

“Assessing Betsy DeVos ’ Rollback on Disability Rights ” by Pacific Standard’s David Perry. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” MOOCs. “Learning Creative Learning: It’s not a MOOC , it’s a community,” says the MIT Media Lab.

MOOC 47

MOOC Education Company Coursera 47

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ California Should Watch Arkansas Process for Creating New Online Institution,” says Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill. in August has released an assessment on the university’s response and what it could have done better. ” asks Mark Guzdial.

Education 51

Education ProctorU Company Report 51

Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

As new forms of data are easier to collect and analyze, drawing on and interacting with information to measure the impact of programs and to inform decision-making and policy has emerged as a key strategy to foster improvement in public schools. Under surveillance by marketers. Under surveillance by companies. Under surveillance by schools.

Data 40

Data Technology Education Software 40

Hack Education

JULY 15, 2016

Inside Higher Ed has a story on Pence’s higher ed policies. Here’s an old article from Chalkbeat on Pence’s K–12 policies. Testing, Testing… “ Nevada officials announced Tuesday that a common-core assessment consortium will credit the state $1.8 “ Are MOOCs Forever ? .”

Education 40

Education Blackboard Common Core MOOC 40

Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

. “High school students will be allowed to carry mace in the 2016–2017 school year after the Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education agreed to remove prohibitive language and amend its policy,” the Salisbury Post reports. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”).

Education 52

Education Pearson Report MOOC 52

Hack Education

APRIL 3, 2017

The influence of Bill Gates in education and education technology policy really cannot be overstated. This is part of the push for MOOCs, we must be honest.). Similarly MOOC startups have now all seemed to pivot towards corporate technology training, but certainly all corporate training isn’t running through these companies.

Trends 64

Trends Company MOOC Edmodo 64

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

And certainly the expectation of many ed-tech products (and increasingly school policy) is that parents will do just this — participate in the incessant monitoring of student data. In 2013, on the heels of “the Year of the MOOC,” Barber released a report titled “An Avalanche is Coming,” calling for the “unbundling” of higher education.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

JUNE 29, 2018

” “ Torn Apart / Separados ” – “A rapidly deployed critical data & visualization intervention in the USA’s 2018 ‘Zero Tolerance Policy’ for asylum seekers at the US Ports of Entry and the humanitarian crisis that has followed.” ” “ AI and Assessment ” by Donald Clark.

Education 50

Education Facebook Khan Academy MOOC 50

Hack Education

MAY 19, 2017

DeVos is the former chair of the American Federation for Children, which advocates for school choice policies, such as tax credit scholarships and vouchers. ” That’s the Collegiate Learning Assessment exam (a.k.a. But there’s reason to be skeptical about their results.” ” Go, School Sports Team!

Edmodo 45

Edmodo Education Knewton Pearson 45

Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

Via The New York Times : “ Trump Orders Review of Education Policies to Strengthen Local Control.” The “nation’s report card” is the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP. ” From the press release : “ MOOCs and books initiative launched by Springer and Federica Weblearning.”

Education 47

Education E-rate Company Kaplan 47

Hack Education

JULY 14, 2017

” Via The New York Times : “ Campus Rape Policie s Get a New Look as the Accused Get DeVos’s Ear.” ” Via The New York Times : “ DeVos Says She Will Revisit Obama-Era Sexual Assault Policies.” IHE blogger John Warner responds : “Algorithmic Assessment vs. Critical Reflection.”

Education 45

Education Pearson Report Robotics 45

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

” Because being cruel and thin-skinned seems to be the policy priority for everyone in the Trump administration. Via Edsurge : “ ​Rhode Island ’s Plans to Become a ‘Lab State’ for Personalized Learning.” Higher Learning Technologies ( HLT ) has acquired gWhiz.

Education 46

Education Khan Academy Robotics MOOC 46

Hack Education

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Instructure has acquired the video-based assessment platform Practice. VitalSource has acquired corporate learning company Intrepid Learning. Via CSO : “Company with no privacy policy to collect brainwave data on 1.2 “Huh?”

Education 48

Education Robotics Company Report 48

Hack Education

OCTOBER 13, 2017

” Via Edsurge : “ Betsy DeVos Visits Bay Area Public School for a Lesson in Personalized Learning.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” MOOCs are dead , according to Udacity ’s VP. ” Never one to let a good MOOC story pass them by, Edsurge repeats the story.

MOOC 43

MOOC Education Kaplan Company 43

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

More federal stuff: Inside Higher Ed on restructuring at the US Department of Education : “Proposed reorganization would eliminate office of under secretary, which oversaw higher ed policy for much of the Obama and George W. ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Of course.

Education 46

Education Company Data Elsevier 46

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Via The New York Times : “In Her Words: Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Assesses a Year on the Job.” ” The Texas Monthly on the future of the Texas Republican Party (with implications for education policy). Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Immigration and Education.

Education 49

Education Robotics Company OER 49

Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

There was all that ink spilled circa 2010 that Khan Academy and “ flipped learning ” were going to “ change the rules of education ,” replacing in-class instruction with online videos watched as homework. Vive la MOOC Révolution. The British MOOC company FutureLearn entered the US market.

MOOC 55

MOOC Coursera Education Broadband 55

Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2017

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.” edX has partnered with the World Bank Group. ” Price tag for the report: $3599.

MOOC 40

MOOC Education Robotics Report 40

Hack Education

JULY 29, 2016

” The program in question: The Global Assessment Certificate program. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Via the Sunlight Foundation : “A look at local education data policies.” ” From Data & Society : “ Personalized Learning : The Conversations We’re Not Having.”

Education 40

Education Company Report Data 40

Hack Education

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Testing, Testing… Via Education Week : “The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium , a major designer of common-core tests for states, is looking for a new fiscal agent after the University of California, Los Angeles, said it will no longer do that work.” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”).

Education 40

Education Company Pearson E-rate 40

Hack Education

MARCH 9, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Vive la MOOC révolution. ” “Orphan MOOCs and the Digital Dark Ages” by Jeffrey Pomerantz in Hybrid Pedagogy. ” There’s more licensing and certification news in the MOOC section above. Via Edsurge : “?In Memos from HR.

Education 47

Education Kaplan Coursera MOOC 47

Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

The company behind the ACT on Wednesday announced plans for a Center for Equity in Learning, which will focus on helping underserved students succeed in college and the work force.” ” “ Northwest Evaluation Association To Enter State Assessment Market,” says Education Week. “Is Estonia the new Finland ?”

Coursera 60

Coursera Education E-rate Company 60

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

“15 Ways Taylor Swift ’s Lyrics Solve Education Policy ’s Most Pressing Issues” is, no doubt, the most godawful white lady thing I’ve seen this week in education news. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “Are You Getting a Pay Bump For Student Completion?

Education 47

Education OER Pearson Report 47

Hack Education

MAY 26, 2017

” And here’s what DeVos said when she spoke to the American Federation for Children’s National Policy Summit. ” Via Education Week : “Market Is Booming for Digital Formative Assessments.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Slate : “ The New Diploma Mills.”

Education 46

Education Data Report Software 46