Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) ” In reviewing Srnicek’s book in March, New York Times media journalist John Hermann wrote , Platforms are, in a sense, capitalism distilled to its essence.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 27, 2015

The Spring Summit has been inspired by and orchestrated in partnership with Library 2.0 founding sponsor, the San Jose State University School of Information ( [link] ).

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Educator Innovator

OCTOBER 7, 2015

We would argue our students read and write more now than they ever have before—between texting, social media, gaming, and everything else they do in their digitally fueled, online lives. Additionally, the tool connects with a person’s Google Drive account, so it’s perfect for Google Apps For Education districts around the world.

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Inside Higher Ed : “Analysis of Georgia Tech ’s MOOC-inspired online master’s in computer science suggests that institutions can successfully deliver high-quality, low-cost degrees to students at scale.” “Many are never the same.”

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 12, 2016

For more background on containers Jim recommended Marc Levinson’s book The Box (2006). One mentioned that their institution used to host WordPress locally, but is now exploring externally hosted social media (Twitter, Facebook, Google+, etc). For example: Googling people to learn about them.

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 12, 2016

For more background on containers Jim recommended Marc Levinson’s book The Box (2006). One mentioned that their institution used to host WordPress locally, but is now exploring externally hosted social media (Twitter, Facebook, Google+, etc). For example: Googling people to learn about them.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Please consider becoming part of this elite team by signing up at [link] and using the booking calendar to schedule volunteer time. Smith, Director of Programs Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for STEM - Revolutionary or Evolutionary? Huge thanks! Derek Barkalow, Ph.D.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 11, 2014

A book signing will follow. Saturday, March 15th at 12pm DonorsChoose: Tips for Success , If you have important learning projects, tools, books or even technology hardware/software you need for your classrooms and can''t find funding to purchase them, this is a show you won''t want to miss. Google Science Fair 2014.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

The free assessments include Google Docs assessments to copy and digital rubrics to download. Claims on Social Media : Students consider the sources of a tweet and the information contained in it in order to describe what makes it both a useful and not useful source of information. What’s the evidence?

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Hack Education

MAY 25, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). MOOCs are back in the headlines again. Via Edsurge : “The Second Wave of MOOC Hype Is Here, and It’s Online Degrees.” ” From the Google blog : “ Google Science Fair 2018 : Resources for educators to get ideas flowing.”

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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. That's what a decade of ed-tech social media and PR have wrought: hashtag gurus and fake news. Udacity got a new CEO. LOL LOL LOL.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

” It’s now unclear, observers say, if the FTC can regulate companies like Google or Verizon. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Inside Higher Ed : “Humans, the Latest MOOC Feature.” ” Via SFGate : “Ex- Subway pitchman Jared Fogle is suing his victim’s parents.”

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). MOOC hype deja vu.). of Mississippi Students Stage Sit-In Over Racist Social-Media Post.” Via WXYZ Detroit : “ Student suspended after posting picture of discolored water in school bathroom to social media.”

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 22, 2014

See graphics for social media and follow the event to join the campaign! Tag your questions #eduquestion or post them on our Facebook page or Google+ community. Online grade books earn A for info, F for stress Myths of Technology Series: “Technology Will Replace Face-to-Face Interaction” U.S.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

. “ ICE officials have invited tech companies, including Microsoft , to develop algorithms that will track visa holders’ social media activity ,” ProPublica reports. Schools should consider the ways in which their own social media surveillance re-inscribes these sorts of violent, nationalist policies.

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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. ” I found her book comforting, while its material horrific, in part because it was a book. Or MOOCs even. Information was control,” Didion writes.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Class Central : “ MOOCs May Still Be Reshaping Higher Education, Just Not In the Way That Was Initially Predicted.” There’s more MOOC news in the contests and competition section below. ” “Big Online Courses Have a Problem.

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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. Google’s Alphabet Inc. Read Mindstorms.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Politico : Western Governors University , “the nation’s leading provider of competency-based educatio n – which the Education Department’s independent watchdog last month said violated federal student aid rules – is expanding into North Carolina.”

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Hack Education

AUGUST 31, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” ClassDojo is now a full social media platform for schools - this letter & video just emailed to parents. Via Techcrunch : “ Amazon ’s children’s book subscription ‘Prime Book Box’ opens to all in the US.”

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Hack Education

JANUARY 18, 2017

I’ve never seen an education story receive quite as much attention from non-educators on social media. ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ MOOC enrollment drops at HarvardX and MITx after free certifications disappear ,” says Techcrunch. It was a disaster.

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Hack Education

JULY 13, 2018

Edsurge and Getting Smart promote venture capitalist Ryan Craig ’s new book A New U and the idea that “ faster + cheaper alternatives will replace most of higher ed.” ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” The Pew Research Center on “ Activism in the Social Media Age.”

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Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2018

Via The Guardian : “ Student Loans Company ‘spied on vulnerable students’ social media’ ” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Or just have them read a book. ” JFC. Let kids have a friggin’ snow day.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Gotta keep hyping that MOOC thing. Via Edsurge : “ MOOCs Are No Longer Massive. ” Via Class Central : “Class Central’s Top 50 MOOCs of All Time (2018 edition).” “Dean Dad” Matt Reed on “‘ Netflix for Books.’”

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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

MAY 13, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). In related MOOC news, there's more on “ nanodegrees ” in the “credentialing” section below. Speaking of loans, Google will ban ads for payday loans. Because up ’til now, MOOCs were the most brilliant data mining app ever.).

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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. ” Via The Sun Sentinel : “Student made social media threat to kill FAU professor, cops say.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 13, 2016

” The University of Northern New Jersey had a website – one with a.edu domain, to boot – as well as several active social media profiles. ” MOOCs for credit. ” The blockchain was hyped by the World Economic Forum – remember when it thought MOOCs were the next big thing? The Nanodegree™.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 5, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ CSU signs deal to record, broadcast classroom lectures,” says the San Francisco Examiner. “ Facebook is donating 500 virtual reality kits to Arkansas schools under a first-of-its-kind partnership between the social media giant and the state,” says the AP.

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Hack Education

MARCH 2, 2018

” Via Gizmodo : “‘Bro Culture’ Led to Repeated Sexual Harassment , Former Google Engineer’s Lawsuit Says.” ” Another Google lawsuit, as reported by Ars Technica : “Ex-Google recruiter : I was fired because I resisted ‘illegal’ diversity efforts.”

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Also via The New York Times : “ Google Faces Internal Backlash Over Handling of Sexual Harassment.” ” Also via The New York Times : “ Google Employees Stage Worldwide Walkout.” president to retire in wake of football death.”

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via The GW Hatchet : “Oversight of online learning programs lacking in some schools, report finds.” More MOOC job changes: Techcrunch reports that “ Coursera ’s chief product officer just left to become a VC.” ” From the HR Department.

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Hack Education

MAY 27, 2016

And speaking of copyrighting a language of a warlike people, the Oracle v Google case had its closing arguments this week. 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”).

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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. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” An op-ed in Forbes by University Ventures’ Ryan Craig : “Make Online Education Great (For The First Time).” ” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

” I’ve looked at how for-profit colleges , MOOCs , and learn-to-code companies have tapped into these narratives in order to justify their products and services. Read The New York Times review of her book. These have all been separate articles in each series. “Lower ed” is far more pervasive.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” edX is offering an online master’s degree with Georgia Tech : an OMS (online master’s in science) in Analytics. The Economist on “ The Return of the MOOC.” Fascinating how affluent parents in the shadow of Google and Apple HQs respond to ed-tech, no?).

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “How Much Hollywood Glitz Should Colleges Use in Their Online Courses ?” Maybe social media is broken, Cathy O’Neil suggests. “ Media Literacy When the Platforms Are Complicit ” by Bill Fitzgerald. . For-Profit Colleges.”

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