Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

For a long time, arguably the best known anti-cheating technology was the plagiarism detection software TurnItIn. So they turned some of their research on pattern-matching of brainwaves to create a piece of software that would identify patterns in texts. Anti-cheating software isn't just about plagiarism, of course.

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 27, 2016

The three biggest reasons pre-K-12 educators took online professional development courses in the past year were to learn how to use digital devices, how to use the educational software that goes on them, or to find out more about classroom behavior or management, according to a new study. Training for student assessments: 27 percent.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

If few students answer the question correctly, the software can flag the professor, or the textbook author, to consider revising the content to make it clearer. At first sight, one might think they were employees coding the software, rather than the ones learning from it. There’s nothing glitzy about the software itself.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

“Before, our only options were to send people to a training, sit in a course, and learn the material–whether from a university or a week-long certification,” says Shelly Holt, vice president of global learning for SAP, a leading enterprise-software company. According to the Association for Talent Development, U.S.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2019

Rounding out the podium for top dollars raised in 2019 with $90 million is Examity , a Boston-based provider of exam proctoring tools used by colleges and universities, assessment groups, professional certification boards and employers. The two companies were also among the 10 companies that raised the most funding in 2017 as well.

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TeacherCast

JANUARY 1, 2016

For instance, one recent survey reported that 75% of the responding K-12 educators in the United States assessed their student’s access to technology in the classroom as “good” or “great” Roughly four out of five teachers planned to utilize these types of resources more extensively during the 2016 academic year.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2016

The DIG team identified and prioritized additional needs and quickly added members with expertise in user experience design, behavioral science, data science, software development and innovation advocacy. By coupling rapid development and deployment with assessment we foster a virtuous cycle of innovation that leads to further discovery.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2018

MOOCs are just digital versions of the much maligned large group lecture, virtual flashcards are simply another tool for useless rote memorization, and online textbooks are just one more problematically unidirectional method of transmitting information without cultivating learning.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

We could participate in a number of free Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs), including over a dozen on Chinese History from Harvard University. I could utilize the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media software tools for historical research.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2021

Prices range from $12 for an online, on-demand class about quality improvement to $9,000 for an online, synchronous course teaching software engineering. But the platform is helping community colleges think through how to use prior-learning assessments to award credit if users do want it, even when the course isn’t technically credit-bearing.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 2, 2016

It’s free for students, but the software isn’t free for all—teachers must pay $7 a year and Pro users pay $29 annually. based automated grading software company, is trying to ease that pain. million assessments, and is on track to hit 4 million in 2017. Based in Honolulu, Hawaii, Comprend.io FlashGrade, a D.C.-based

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

We discuss their goals and what they are working on, and if they had an assessment we might talk about that,” she said. Smart tools like lesson software that adjusts to students’ responses (and automatically provides more practice when they stumble) can enable increasingly specific levels of independence.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2017

He’s never been a fan of digital textbooks or MOOCs.) He also believes the market is also moving towards tools that bundle assessment and content, rather than being offered as separate products. It’s an observation borne, perhaps, out of his experience working with Smarterer, a skills assessment platform that was.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 6, 2020

For example, Microsoft offers certification programs to professionals who wish to gain mastery of one or more of their varied software products. Massive Open Online Courses (Sometimes referred to as MOOCs) – MOOCs are readily available courses that are presented online. MOOCs are not an ideal way for most students to learn.

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 25, 2016

As one anecdote to consider, Kamenetz mentioned a new product, which provides surveillance software for K-12. The company making this software claimed as an achievement to have prevented three suicides by detecting self-harm signals through pupils’ digital activity. This works in a low-stakes settings, like a MOOC.

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

What do you think the whole MOOC thing George Siemens and I and others was about? Needless to say, these students are not roaming autodidacts who, left to their own (digital) devices, will thrive and succeed as “free range learners” in a world of MOOCs. Is it the extensions we’ve made to the Open Assessments platform?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

The impact of MOOCs depends on their ability to assess learning. Nicholas Pringle thinks that MOOCs and other e-learning platforms need to step up their game in assessment to become true players in the education revolution. Are quizzes and attendance enough? Weigh in here.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) It may be the hardware or the operating system (OS), even a web browser or other underlying software, as long as the program code is executed in it. The company has raised some $77.5

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Assessing Quality, Academic Rigor, and Innovation. Most impressive demonstration of the possibilities of the software and of engaging ways to interpret the conference theme! " -Anonymous “This is a fantastic conference and I plan on using the recordings for my graduate student -professional teachers.

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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.

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ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 1, 2019

In order to reduce the amount of new content a teacher needs to make, YouTube videos, MOOC s, multiple choice questions and web-based resources can be combined. Additional resources such as ViewSonic’s myViewBoard software , can be used to combine content into a single presentation, which can then be shared with children online.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity. “Software is eating the world,” investor Marc Andreessen pronounced in a Wall Street Journal op-ed in 2011. The quotation is from 2012.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

I’ve taken a MOOC on algorithms and read, in whole or in part, books and articles that contain significant discussions of computer science-y things like time complexity and NP-completeness. Second, I’ve been using computers and software more and more in my teaching. and then somewhat sparingly. But it's limited.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

A collection of software bundled by Google that is available on a subscription model for schools and classroom. These taxonomies can be used to plan units, lessons, assessments, and other teaching and learning processes. Genius Hour. Google Apps for Education. Services include Google Drive, Google Docs, Gmail, and more. ” (11).

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ViewSonic Education

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Fortunately, there is a vast amount of content already available, such as YouTube videos, MOOCs, multiple choice questions and web-based resources. Interactive software like Viewsonic’s ViewBoard and myViewBoard allows for a variety of content to be seamlessly integrated into a single presentation.

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Learning with 'e's

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

Many punk educators are finding viable and for them, more acceptable alternatives to proprietary software, structured courses and closed journals, and instead are devoting their energy to creating new approaches including open software, open courses (including the original C-MOOCs) and open publishing with free tools.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). A glimpse : “In China ’s Silicon Valley, Edtech Starts at the ‘MOOC Times Building’ ” Via Class Central : “By The Numbers: MOOCs in 2018.” Via Edsurge : “ GlassLab Set Out to Prove Games Could Assess Learning.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2017

They can be something everybody uses; that’s how 2012 became the year of the MOOC, and why virtual reality will no doubt be widely cited as the trend of 2016. MOOCs continued to increase in number and attendance. By Stephen Downes, National Research Council. Now there are different ways things can be a ‘trend of the year’.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 12, 2016

From the US Department of Education’s blog : “Building the Next Generation of Assessments in Education.” ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Education Dive makes claims about “ MOOCs as tools for equity in under-resourced high schools.” Upgrades and Downgrades.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

” “Two assessment companies – Educational Testing Service and Data Recognition Corp. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Inside Higher Ed : “Humans, the Latest MOOC Feature.” ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Kaplan Will Offer Free Online PSAT Prep.”

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” (So instead of “testing” we’ll have ubiquitous, non-stop surveillance / assessment via “personalized learning.” ” Any piece of education software or curriculum that puts “fun” in its name is not.

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Hack Education

APRIL 13, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). School administration software-maker Connexeo has raised $110 million from Great Hill Partners. The reading software-maker has raised $3.2 There’s more financial aid news in the “research” section below and in the “courts” section above.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

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.” The literacy software company has raised $14.8 Lynn University will buy the for-profit Digital Media Arts College. ThinkCERCA has raised $10.1 million total. (No

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Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2017

“The Year of the MOOC” – I was summoned to Palo Alto, California for a small gathering to discuss the future of teaching, learning, and technology. Perhaps with this data, the MOOC providers can build a map of professional if not cognitive pathways. Let me begin with a story.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

“Hardly Anyone Wants to Take a Liberal Arts MOOC,” Edsurge informed its readers in February. ” MOOC startups like Udacity and Coursera have also rebranded to target this particular post-secondary technical training market. We’ve seen this before in the MOOC world. See: the LMS, the MOOC.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 27, 2017

“Assessing Betsy DeVos ’ Rollback on Disability Rights ” by Pacific Standard’s David Perry. Via Techcrunch : “ Holberton gets backing from more industry executives as it looks to scale its software engineering school.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” MOOCs.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

I’ll look more closely at discrimination by design – in software and in algorithms – in the final article in this series.) ESSA gives more autonomy and flexibility to states than they had under NCLB through competency-based assessments, which could drive the development of personalized learning technologies.

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