Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Just a few weeks after Daphne Koller ’s announcement she was leaving the MOOC startup she co-founded, Coursera unveiled “ Coursera for Business ” this week, marking its pivot from “democratizing higher ed” to “ training corporate employees.” Robots probably won’t take your jobs.

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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. From the Coursera blog : “Announcing ‘ AI for Everyone ’: a new course from deeplearning.ai on Coursera.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 23, 2019

But for the past year or so, I've turned my attention away from the day-to-day news as I've researched and written a book on teaching machines and the history of personalization and behaviorism. Coursera raised $109 million in venture company because investors are cray. Dangerous practices and products are normalized.

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Hack Education

JUNE 9, 2017

That seems to be Coursera ’s business model. ” “ Textbook publishers announce new measures to curb counterfeiting of physical books, including certification seals on book covers,” Inside Higher Ed reports. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Kiron and Red Hat have joined edX. powered teaching method.”

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Hack Education

MAY 25, 2018

” IHE blogger Joshua Kim offers “25 Million Reasons Why LinkedIn / Microsoft Will Buy Coursera.” ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via Edsurge : “The Second Wave of MOOC Hype Is Here, and It’s Online Degrees.” ” “ Cyber Charters in at Least 5 States Face Closure.

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Hack Education

APRIL 14, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via the Coursera blog : “New mobile features: Transcripts, notes, and reminders.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Udacity has updated its online "classroom." Upgrades and Downgrades. ” Spoiler alert: humans.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “ Andrew Ng , Co-Founder of Coursera , Returns to MOOC Teaching With New AI Course.” Via the Coursera blog : “What’s Next in Employee Learning: Virtual Reality.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” More via Wired.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Via The Guardian : “US library to enforce jail sentences for overdue books.” ” The for-profit: Laureate Education (which once began as the tutoring chain Sylvan Learning and is now an investor in Coursera, I always like to point out). ” Education in the Courts. Meanwhile on Campus.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

” Note the significant difference in language in this headline from The Verge , for example – “ Harvard’s Root robot teaches kids how to code ” – and the way in which Seymour would describe the LOGO Turtle – that students would using programming to teach the robot. Read Mindstorms.

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Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2017

“Robots are coming for your job.” “Robots are coming for your job.” Robots don’t do anything they’re not programmed to do. Robots don’t just roll into the human resources department on their own accord, ready to outperform others. Robots don’t apply for jobs.

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2018

” Anya Kamenetz on Alexandra Lange ’s new book The Design of Childhood (which I cannot wait to read): “Century-Old Decisions That Impact Children Every Day.” ” From the Coursera blog : “ Coursera for Business Is Now Available to Small and Medium-Sized Businesses.”

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

” Via Campus Technology : “ Coursera ’s CEO on the Evolving Meaning of ‘MOOC’ ” There’s more ECOT news – there’s always more ECOT news – in the “state and local politics” section above. .” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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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. ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. That means, after next week, I’m ending this particular series too.

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Hack Education

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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Hack Education

JULY 14, 2017

” More on the Afghan robotics team in the contest section below. ” Via Education Dive : “ Coursera ’s Tom Willerer talks personalization, access.” for Robotics Contest.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. .” Via The Atlantic : “The Schools Transforming Immigrant Education.”

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

” The provider in question is Coursera , which has raised some $146.1 Tressie McMillan Cottom ’s new book, Lower Ed , is now out, and you should buy it and read it. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. “In an age of robots , schools are teaching our children to be redundant,” says George Monbiot.

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OCTOBER 20, 2017

More MOOC job changes: Techcrunch reports that “ Coursera ’s chief product officer just left to become a VC.” Once upon a time, Coursera updates went in the MOOC section. ” From the Coursera blog : “New on Coursera: start-to-finish learning paths for starting a new career.”

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

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.” ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”).

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Hack Education

MARCH 10, 2017

Tressie McMillan Cottom’s new book on for-profit higher ed reviewed by The New York Times. ” Via The Financial Times : “ Coursera chief on the future of online learning and the Trump era.” ” New Nanodegrees from Udacity : Digital Marketing and Robotics. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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Hack Education

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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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Coursera co-founder “ Andrew Ng officially launches his $175M AI Fund,” says Techcrunch. ” Alex Usher reviews George Mason University professor Brian Caplan ’s new book The Case Against Education. .” Please stop. Tom Hanks as Mr. Rogers.

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Hack Education

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. But anyway… Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Something something robots something something. ” No.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 19, 2018

” Buy her book on school closures in Chicago , Ghosts in the Schoolyard. Via Forbes : “This Company Could Be Your Next Teacher: Coursera Plots A Massive Future For Online Education.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. The robot presents as a black female? The state, Washington. Wait wait wait.

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Hack Education

MARCH 9, 2018

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. ” asks Ron Srigley in the Los Angeles Review of Books.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 26, 2018

“ Coursera ’s 2018 Revenue Estimated to be $140 million,” Class Central estimates. I’ve got Joshua Hunt’s new book The University of Nike sitting here on my desk. Here he is in The New York Times : “Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: College Athletics and Its Corporate Sponsors.”

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Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2017

” Codecademy, Edsurge contends, is now a competitor to Coursera and Udacity. ” Not sure why these are the four, but there you go: Udemy , Lynda , Coursera , and Skillshare. ” Not sure why these are the four, but there you go: Udemy , Lynda , Coursera , and Skillshare. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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