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What Happens When Ed-Tech Forgets? Some Thoughts on Rehabilitating Reputations

Hack Education

Some of these other examples appear in the introduction of my forthcoming book, which I won't spoil since I have to save a chapter like that for the book tour — if we can do book tours. Despite the failure of AllLearn, in 2014, Levin was named the CEO of Coursera. Coursera founder Daphne Koller.

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?Readers’ Roundup: EdSurge HigherEd’s Top 10 Articles of 2017

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Coursera to Charge Fees for Previously Free Courses Once hailed as a portal for free learning materials, accessible to anyone with an internet connection, Coursera announced this year plans to charge if learners want to submit assignments to be graded for certain courses.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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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.” ” Will for-profit higher ed be an election issue?

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Revolution in Higher Education: chapter 2

Bryan Alexander

This chapter takes us from 2012 through 2013, following the expansion of MOOCs across American research-1 institutions and the breakout of Coursera, edX, and Udacity. We reach further back in history here, following the track of DeMillo’s previous book Abelard To Apple. DeMillo carries on with several themes.

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Revolution in Higher Education: A Social Contract

Bryan Alexander

and Coursera’s Mission (yes, capitalized there). Miscellaneous notes: MOOCs seem less important at this point of the book than they did during the first few chapters. Next week, starting February 1st, is our final discussion of the book, starting with its epilogue. ” (5621). and get reading.

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Revolution in Higher Education: chapter 1

Bryan Alexander

Our online book club begins! We see Coursera when it was just “DKandme” This chapter takes us through the critical work of selected people, including Sebastian Thrun, Daphne Koller, Andrew Ng, George Siemens, Stephen Downes, Charles Vest, Anant Agarwal, and John Hennessy. ” (Kindle location 678). and get reading.

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What Technology Does What: An #edtech Chart For Teachers

TeachThought - Learn better.

But fundamentally, using a frame work ( this one, for example ), they could then use YouTube channels & iTunesU to access compelling content, WordPress to reflect on their ideas and progress, and twitter to publicize their thinking. Geddit , twitter backchannel discussion, Nearpod , Classroom Response Systems (clickers).

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