Hack Education

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” MOOCs. “Learning Creative Learning: It’s not a MOOC , it’s a community,” says the MIT Media Lab. “A Proposal to Put the ‘M’ Back in MOOCs ” – an op-ed by Class Central ’s Dhawal Shah in Edsurge.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Or it will raise a bunch of venture capital to support its “free” offering for a while, and then the company will get acquired and the product will go away. And “free” doesn’t last. Um, they do.)

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Hack Education

JULY 14, 2017

Also via Edsurge : “How Boundaries Between Colleges and Companies Will Continue to Blur.” “Mind-reading robo tutor in the sky” company Knewton has a new CEO , Brian Kibby , formerly with Pearson. Via The New York Times : “To Close Digital Divide, Microsoft to Harness Unused Television Channels.”

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Via WaPo : “The FCC talks the talk on the digital divide – and then walks in the other direction.” ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “Should Online Courses Go Through ‘Beta Testing’?” NPR on MOOC Micromasters. ” That’s Gail Heriot.

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Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

the Virginia company at the heart of the operation.” Here’s the EdWeek headline: “ Company Exec. for Ed-Tech Company Testifies in Ala. ” Gee, good thing no one else in ed-tech is in the business of selling these sorts of connections between companies and politicians and schools! ” Ugh.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 20, 2016

” Money and data – they’re intertwined for technology companies – are monopolized in a handful of corporate giants. As I wrote in the first article in this series , one of the latter companies, Bridge International Academies, was poised to take over Liberia’s public school system.

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Hack Education

MAY 27, 2016

On Thursday, the judge gave Google the victory , ruling that the company’s use of the Java API fell under fair use provisions. ” (That giant: Pearson , of course.). Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). MOOCs for credit ! ” Go Ducks. ” Accreditation and Certification.

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