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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JULY 15, 2016

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). “ Are MOOCs Forever ?” ” asks The Chronicle of Higher Education in an interview with Coursera’s Daphne Koller. A “ personalized learning explainer ” from Mindwire Consulting. million worth of books last year.

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DECEMBER 30, 2019

The story examined a proposed practice: “Colleges require students to pay a course-materials fee, which would be used to buy e-books for all of them (whatever text the professor recommends, just as in the old model).” And digital bits have replaced the need to cut down trees to make paper and waste ink to create those books.”

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DECEMBER 7, 2018

I’m ending that series, I think, so I can focus on writing books. ” Via Chalkbeat : “New early learning initiative brings Sesame Street lessons into Memphis classrooms.” A nice review in The Nation of Eve Ewing ’s new book (and her work more broadly) on the closure of schools in Chicago.

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JULY 14, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “The University of California, Los Angeles , is planning a major expansion in the online certificate and graduate degree markets that it hopes will reach as many as 15,000 students by early next decade,” Inside Higher Ed reports. for Robotics Contest.”

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OCTOBER 20, 2017

” Via Edsurge : “The Makings (and Misgivings) of a Statewide Effort to Personalize Learning in Massachusetts.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via The GW Hatchet : “Oversight of online learning programs lacking in some schools, report finds.”

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FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). It’s baaaaack: “Return of the MOOC ,” The City Journal tells us. There’s some (sorta) MOOC-related news in the venture funding section below. Because MOOCs on an airplane proved to be such an effective mode of instruction.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2018

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Imperial College London will teach a class on artificial intelligence on the Coursera platform. Via Campus Technology : “ McGraw-Hill Education Launches Textbook and E-Book Rental Program.” Faces New Setback in Battle Over GI Bill Funds.”

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DECEMBER 12, 2017

Clayton Christensen and Michael Horn, for example, predicted in their 2008 book Disrupting Class that by 2019 half of all high school classes would be taught via the Internet. Vive la MOOC Révolution. In October of this year, Clarissa Shen, Udacity’s Chief Operating Officer, called MOOCs “ a failed product.”

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MARCH 31, 2017

” Fresh Air’s Terry Gross talks to Tressie McMillan Cottom about her new book, Lower Ed , and “How For-Profit Colleges Sell ‘Risky Education’ To The Most Vulnerable.” ” Via Edsurge : “ Coursera ’s Rick Levin on the Evolution of MOOCs and Microcredentials.”

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NOVEMBER 10, 2017

” For those keeping track of how ed-tech is intertwined in all this, here’s a list of Yuri Milner ’s education investments : 17zuoye, Remind, Coursera, Clever, Codecademy, ClassDojo, and General Assembly. How Expeditionary Deeper Learning Engages Students Through Inquiry, Discovery & Creativity.”

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JUNE 24, 2016

They returned a syllabus that was all-white in composition – not just in that the primary authors of the books selected contained no people of color but the books themselves largely avoided America's colonial-settler, chattel-slavery, and racist-imperial history.” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”).

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AUGUST 4, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “As In-Person Bootcamps Falter, Codecademy Introduces Paid Online Options.” ” Codecademy, Edsurge contends, is now a competitor to Coursera and Udacity. Spoiler alert: it’s about learning how to teach differently.).

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MARCH 9, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). In Move Towards More Online Degrees, Coursera Introduces Its First Bachelor ’s.” ” “Coursera and other purveyors of massive open online courses supposedly signaled the end of traditional credentials and, as some told it, universities. .”

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