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Top EdSurge Higher Education Stories of 2021

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Young The MOOC giant was valued at more than $3.6 Is a Parallel Higher Education System Emerging? Young This analysis of a major MOOC provider proved prescient; the nonprofit was purchased later in the year. More Students Are Using Chegg to Cheat. A math professor makes the case for using class time for active learning.

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EdSurge HigherEd Year in Review: Our Top Higher Education Stories of 2018

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While not quite the “Year of the MOOC,” 2018 saw a resurgence in interest around the ways these massive open online courses are delivering free (and more often these days, not free) online education around the world, and how these providers are increasingly turning to traditional institutions of learning. Cheating on Chegg?

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5 Ed-Tech Ideas Face The Chronicle’s Version of ‘Shark Tank’

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If you want to track your learners, if you want to see the progress of your learners, if you want to bring in the information from the quizzes into your learning-management systems, then you have to buy. Freedman: I love where you started with the criticism of the MOOCs. Patrick Jones: Well, that’s the way the system is kind of set up.

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Stale Words and Hackneyed Ideas That Make Edtech Investors Cringe

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Bloomz , ClassDojo , Remind ), established companies ( SchoolMessenger ), and other deep pocket players from learning management system providers that already boast significant traction here. Chegg (or Amazon for that matter)? MOOCs or General Assembly for country X. Yet another student book exchange. How are you better than.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via the Coursera blog : “New mobile features: Transcripts, notes, and reminders.” " It’s lovely to see the big innovation from the MOOC startups in 2017 involves the learning management system. ” asks The Atlantic.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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of Texas System Apologizes for Revoking Nepali Students ’ Scholarships.” ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ UMass-Boston Faculty Votes No Confidence in System’s Leaders Over Purchase of Small College.” It has raised $69.7

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via The New Yorker : “ Georgia ’s Separate and Unequal Special-Education System.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Gotta keep that MOOC hype alive. “ MOOCs Find a New Audience with On-Campus Students,” Edsurge claims. State and Local) Education Politics.