Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Or it will raise a bunch of venture capital to support its “free” offering for a while, and then the company will get acquired and the product will go away. The key word in that headline isn’t “digital”; it’s “force.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 7, 2018

I’m ending that series, I think, so I can focus on writing books. A nice review in The Nation of Eve Ewing ’s new book (and her work more broadly) on the closure of schools in Chicago. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Short-term-jobs-for-students company Student Pop has raised $3.4

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Via WaPo : “The FCC talks the talk on the digital divide – and then walks in the other direction.” ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “Should Online Courses Go Through ‘Beta Testing’?” NPR on MOOC Micromasters. ” That’s Gail Heriot.

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Hack Education

JULY 14, 2017

Also via Edsurge : “How Boundaries Between Colleges and Companies Will Continue to Blur.” “Mind-reading robo tutor in the sky” company Knewton has a new CEO , Brian Kibby , formerly with Pearson. Via The New York Times : “To Close Digital Divide, Microsoft to Harness Unused Television Channels.”

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Hack Education

MAY 27, 2016

On Thursday, the judge gave Google the victory , ruling that the company’s use of the Java API fell under fair use provisions. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). MOOCs for credit ! Also off campus, not on-: “ Unemployed Detroit Residents Are Trapped by a Digital Divide.”

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news down in the “labor and management” section below. I’ve got Joshua Hunt’s new book The University of Nike sitting here on my desk. Doesn’t look like the company has anyone to take his place yet.

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