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MAY 12, 2020

In 2015, someone asked me what I thought about innovation in higher ed in an email, so I responded with a couple of hundred words, which I added to in creating this short blog post. Competency-Based Learning. Comparing an unsupported MOOC from 2008 to an in-person college experience isn’t apples to apples.

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Examples MOOC Education Competency Based Learning 140

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security.

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Pearson MOOC Company Industry 145

Hack Education

OCTOBER 12, 2018

And there’s a blog post on Medium , because I guess someone thinks it’s a good idea for the Office of Ed Tech to outsource its website to a for-profit company. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). From the edX blog : “Fully Online, Top-Ranked Master’s Degrees Now Available on edX.”

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Education MOOC OER Company 55

Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2017

.” A ruling from the Court of Justice of the European Union raises interesting questions about the ownership of student data : “Exam scripts and examiner’s corrections are personal data of the exam candidate.” Via the Indianapolis Business Journal : “Legal skirmishes break out over ITT documents, data.”

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Khan Academy Elsevier Education MOOC 46