Hack Education

JULY 7, 2017

” Some of these experimental sites included MOOCs and coding bootcamps. Via The Washington Post : “SEC settles fraud charges against defunct for-profit college company ITT.” Because honestly, where else would you put news about that private school company but in the surveillance section.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

At the time, I wrote about the importance of APIs; the issues surrounding data security and privacy; the appeal of platforms for users and businesses; and the education and tech companies who were well-positioned (or at least wanting) to become education platforms. ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2017

As online learning companies compete for the attention and wallets of learners, players like MasterClass , Linked Learning , Cognotion and Harvard are investing in producing videos that are so beautiful they could be National Geographic documentaries or sitcom pilots. These efforts are not cheap. Cognotion has raised $4.4

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

” There’s more on legal battles involving student loan companies in the business of financial aid section below. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” The Business of Job Training. Via CNBC : “ Amazon ’s cloud is looking at building a corporate training service.”

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Companies like Microsoft, Facebook and Google are all dipping their toes into virtual and augmented reality. DeSchryver and Cavanagh will look at how ESSA is guiding the work of edtech companies now and in the future. Monday, March 6 9:30 a.m. Will VR Really Impact Student Outcomes? But will VR and AR live up to its hype? 2:00 p.m.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2018

Companies have been selling their products – textbooks, workbooks, maps, films, and so on – to schools for well over a century. Many companies – and certainly these two in particular – also have a long history of data collection and data analysis. MOOCs were going to change everything. ”).

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

” She posits gaming as the new site for “modern learning,” with an emphasis on skills training and data-driven self-improvement. “Why are there 72 slides about gaming, from a company invested in EA, Zynga, Mobcrush, and Magic Leap?” I admit, I find this both an odd and a striking observation.

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Hack Education

MAY 6, 2020

My forthcoming book, Teaching Machines focuses — as the title suggests — examines the push to adopt teaching machines during this period. Don't worry, I'll be back to talk more about that when the book comes out. Like a MOOC, but in the school gym. 150,000 a year to lease coaxial cables from Bell Telephone Company, for example.

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GoConqr

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

This will require a shift in the way teachers are trained too. Teachers will assume the role of facilitators, which will require a change in how they are trained.” We will see more and more educational MOOC platforms to replace classroom training, as they afford users universal access to knowledge. Click To Tweet.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 6, 2020

The following are a few examples of learning resources that are available for ongoing education outside of high school and university: Certification Programs – Certification programs are typically training programs that are offered by tech companies or other organizations outside of traditional academia.

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 25, 2016

We’ve made the full recording available as usual, via this direct link or the following embed: Inspired by her recent book, The Test , I began the conversation by asking how testing may change over the next few years, according to what the author learned from researching its history. This works in a low-stakes settings, like a MOOC.

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 12, 2016

Jim described it as a way to think through technology in order to empower the educational community beyond tech skills and training. I asked about how Jim’s company, Reclaim Hosting , is doing. For more background on containers Jim recommended Marc Levinson’s book The Box (2006). RECLAIM HOSTING.

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 12, 2016

Jim described it as a way to think through technology in order to empower the educational community beyond tech skills and training. I asked about how Jim’s company, Reclaim Hosting , is doing. For more background on containers Jim recommended Marc Levinson’s book The Box (2006). RECLAIM HOSTING.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

When I first started working as a tech reporter, I assumed – naively – that venture capitalists were smart people who did thorough research before funding a company. I assumed that they looked to see if the company could do what it promised – financially, technologically. One should be conscientious, as such.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

One of my favorites: “Books will soon be obsolete in schools,” Thomas Edison said in 1913. ” – 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. .” Any day now. Any day now.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

I’ve written two books on the monsters of education technology; I’m publishing a third in the series at the end of the year. We tend to read the book as a cautionary tale about science gone awry. “Books will soon be obsolete in schools” – Thomas Edison, 1913. I will still try to be brutally frank.

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2017

A venture-backed company today announced a new educational offering billed as an alternative to the standard undergraduate experience. The company will hire working professionals to teach the courses. A roster of well-known companies—and darlings of Silicon Valley—have signed up to participate.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2018

There’s even a growing body of scholarly work critiquing a so-called “McDonaldization” of higher education , saying colleges risk becoming factory-like deliverers of training rather than places of research and intellectual exploration. So how can colleges experiment without straying from their mission? How do you have that dialogue?

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Wired Campus

APRIL 30, 2015

In the TV series Shark Tank, entrepreneurs with budding companies pitch their ideas to a panel of investors who ask probing questions and then decide whether to back the proposals. Freund: When I sold my previous company, I had some time at my hands for the first time really in my life. Each spoke from a different perspective — Ms.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Chopra worked at the CFPB and, while there, “sued two for-profit-college companies – ITT Educational Services Inc. ” It’s now unclear, observers say, if the FTC can regulate companies like Google or Verizon. ” “Two assessment companies – Educational Testing Service and Data Recognition Corp.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

That series isn’t going to be much of one this year… And frankly, this Friday thing is going to be paused for the duration of Teaching Machines book-writing, starting quite soon. ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). is the new company of Andrew Ng , Coursera’s co-founder.)

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

But Gloria Larson argues in a new book that all of higher education should embrace this mixture, and move past the notion that a college has to focus on either liberal arts or practical workplace preparation. The book is called PreparedU: How Innovative Colleges Drive Student Success. What do you make of this disconnect?

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Hack Education

AUGUST 17, 2018

Via Chalkbeat : “Carranza aims to speed up anti-bias training for educators , calling it a ‘cornerstone’ of school improvement.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). The Business of Job Training. Via The New York Times : “This Company Keeps Lies About Sandy Hook on the Web.”

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Hack Education

APRIL 13, 2018

Via Chalkbeat’s Colorado news desk : “$35 million for school safety will go toward training, but not hiring, of school resource officers.” The seller: Book Dog Books. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” The Business of Job Training. ” asks Edsurge.

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Hack Education

APRIL 14, 2017

This Bootcamp Will Train Sales Chops (and Even Pay For It).” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via the Coursera blog : “New mobile features: Transcripts, notes, and reminders.” The adaptive learning company has raised $16 million total. The learn-to-code company has raised $1.19

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). MOOC hype deja vu.). Via Campus Technology: “ CUNY to Train, Hire 2,000 Students in Free Coding Bootcamps.” “This Accessory Makes VR So Real a Surgeon Could Train with It,” says MIT Technology Review. It lives.). million total.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Mostly tutoring companies.). “ ICE officials have invited tech companies, including Microsoft , to develop algorithms that will track visa holders’ social media activity ,” ProPublica reports. ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” The University of Iceland has joined edX.

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Hack Education

JUNE 9, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” If you can’t create revenue, raise venture capital. Via Edsurge : “As LinkedIn ’s Video Library Grows, Company Says It Has No Plans to Compete With Colleges.” The Business of Job Training. That’s despite privacy concerns about the company.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

Not really ed-tech-related, except for all those companies saying they’re “Uber for education.” ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “ Andrew Ng , Co-Founder of Coursera , Returns to MOOC Teaching With New AI Course.” The Business of Job Training.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

I read the book that very year – and honestly, I don’t often buy or read books in hardcover – shortly after my own husband died. “In time of trouble, I had been trained since childhood, read, learn, work it up, go to the literature. Or MOOCs even. Information was control,” Didion writes.

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

I’ve read books like The Innovator’s Dilemma and others that you’d not typically find in the math section of the bookstore. I’ve tried to train myself in the lingo and include terms like “design sprint,” “customer,” “ROI” and so on in my vocabulary. In a great company, everybody assumes responsibility for everything.

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Hack Education

MAY 26, 2016

I’ve written two books about “the monsters of ed-tech” and certainly the “rough beasts” could be their kin. Ads for these creatures appeared in the back of comic books, alongside a number of other products promising similar sorts of scientific amazement and technological trickery. What are we promising?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

The work is also supported by companies including Apple, Google and Expedia, as well as education organizations including the CollegeBoard, Teach For America and STEMx.” “Hardly Anyone Wants to Take a Liberal Arts MOOC,” Edsurge informed its readers in February. Read Mindstorms. Only “1.86

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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. And once you’ve trained those algorithms, you can apply them everywhere. In the meantime, these companies continue to collect a lot of “driving” data.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2018

Dance concealed about $12,000 in payments he received through his consulting work in 2015, including $4,600 from an organization called the Education Research and Development Institute – ERDI for short – that pays superintendents to attend meetings with educational tech companies. ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “The U.S.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 12, 2018

“Technology companies can no longer turn a blind eye to the human rights abuses of one of their largest investors.” 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. The Business of Job Training.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Class Central : “ TU Delft Students Can Earn Credit For MOOCs From Other Universities.” The Business of Job Training. Via The New York Times : “ School Shooting Simulation Trains Teachers for the Worst.” link] — Nicholas A.

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