Hack Education

JULY 7, 2017

(National) Education Politics. Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Silence From the Secretary , Despite Major Rules Changes.” ” Some of these experimental sites included MOOCs and coding bootcamps. .” ” Some of these experimental sites included MOOCs and coding bootcamps.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Some of this is a result of an influx of Silicon Valley types in recent years — people with no ties to education or education technology who think that their ignorance and lack of expertise is a strength. Narratives about the “factory model of education” and whatnot. I mean forgetting what happened five, ten years ago.

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eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2021

Course development has also been supported by Jinghong Wang, author of more than ten Chinese textbooks, and a well-known Chinese course developer at MOOC, experts in Chinese online learning courses and teacher training. For more information about VHS Learning please visit [link] and follow on Twitter at @VHSLearning.

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2018

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos made a last-minute appearance at SXSW EDU on Tuesday, calling for a “rethink” of American higher education. Photo Credit: Jenny Abamu “How do you have a panel without an educator on there,” asked Kathleen Goerner, science coordinator at a school district in Kingwood, Texas.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

With less than a week until the storytelling-themed keynote kicks things off, we combed through the sessions, workshops and talks that will be filling our heads, and our Twitter feeds, in the days to come. The Evolution of MOOCs: Six Years Later : Are MOOCs still around? SXSW EDU sessions are separated into 25 different tracks.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

This is part four of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Way back in 2012, I chose “ The Platforming of Education ” as one of my “Top Ed-Tech Trends.” ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. The company has raised some $77.5

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2017

Except that analogy doesn’t really work, because education isn’t a product, and most professors bristle at comparisons to the corporate sector. Many of the new academic-innovation efforts at colleges started about three years ago, amid widespread hype around massive open online courses, or MOOCs.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2018

In fact, aside from the predictable few flickers of Facebook and Twitter, it seemed most of the students were actually working on something productive. And in the process of trying to educate myself on the matter, I’ve come to a scary realization: Edtech is trapped in Ben Bloom’s basement. But the technology itself was not my concern.

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 27, 2016

Today at 8pm GMT, the second #EDENchat of 2016 will be live on Twitter. 3) How are MOOCs and other massive open study opportunities changing or influencing out thinking as educators? Are we in danger of being left behind if our organisation/institution is not involved in MOOCs? 4) Is open content truly 'free'?

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GoConqr

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

But that hasn’t stopped us from asking a number of experts in education and technology to gaze into their crystal balls and share their thoughts on one major EdTech trend we can expect to see lighting up learning and one major challenge that education will face in 2016. Savas Savides (Publisher & Former Educator, Greece).

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

The conversation regarding higher education has never been more heated. Today’s Millennials have different educational needs from those of previous generations. Beyond coursework, students swim in a flux of data, buffeted by phone calls, text messages, Facebook updates, Twitter tweets, news crawls, and other sources.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

We started EdSurge in 2011 by focusing on K-12 education. This past March, we began broadening our coverage to include education beyond high school. Colleges and universities have been scrutinizing technology, for reasons both similar and dissimilar to K-12 educators, for decades. jobs will require postsecondary education.

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Fractus Learning

JANUARY 17, 2017

Canadian based and internationally known educator George Couros is somewhat of a pop star in the digital world that I inhabit. Indeed, he is the Justin Timberlake of educational innovation. George has a few more follower Twitter followers than me; well, 141 000 more to be exact! Education cannot become the new Blockbuster.”.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

And thank you too for the theme of this event – your willingness to talk about failures and struggles with education technology rather than, what’s almost always the case, this strange dogma the field demands – that we only offer praise and thanks for the glory of education technology.

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 12, 2016

Twitter activity during the hour was also very energetic, so I Storified it. Jim described it as a way to think through technology in order to empower the educational community beyond tech skills and training. In education self-hosting maybe an alternative to the LMS, or a very basic, fundamental element of literacy.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 9, 2015

Two Week Calendar Saturday, April 11th at 12pm CR20 LIVE: Discovery Education Network Virtual Field Trips and Free Resources with Kyle Schutt , Classroom 2.0 You can follow us on Twitter at #liveclass20. Second Monday of each month is the Teacher Librarian Twitter Chat. Follow #TLChat on Twitter to participate.

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 12, 2016

Twitter activity during the hour was also very energetic, so I Storified it. Jim described it as a way to think through technology in order to empower the educational community beyond tech skills and training. In education self-hosting maybe an alternative to the LMS, or a very basic, fundamental element of literacy.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

Please share in the comments or via Twitter. ”. For context, we need to go a little father back, to the piece last week on Wired– The Techies Who Are Hacking Education by Homeschooling Their Kids –that is getting a lot of run on twitter recently. Your thoughts on this? –homeschool? Adaptive learning apps.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

Check out our growing list of MOOCs and Courses on the EdSurge Index. Talk the Talk: Even if you’ve never worked in education and edtech, it’s important to form a point of view by reading about what’s going on in the space. Post articles and media on Facebook, Twitter, etc that is useful and interesting to your followers.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

The 8th Annual Global Education Conference (GEC) All Online, All Free November 13 - 16, 2017 The Global Education Conference Network's eighth annual worldwide collaboration on globally-connected education starts today, Monday, November 13, and continues through this Thursday, November 16. Full details are here.

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Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Continuing with our reading of Richard DeMillo’s Revolution in Higher Education: How a Small Band of Innovators Will Make College Accessible and Affordable (2015) ( publisher ; Amazon ): this week we’re discussing chapter 4, “Technology Curves.” ” (2247). ” (1990) Even mentoring gets the treatment.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 8, 2015

This leads to the “innovator’s dilemma,” described recently in The Economist as “the difficult choice an established company faces when it has to choose between holding onto an existing market by doing the same thing a bit better, or capturing new markets by embracing new technologies and adopting new business models.”

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2019

The other day I was scrolling through Twitter when a message caught my eye. He’s the guy who coined the term MOOC, short for Massive Open Online Course, which then was a reference to multiplayer video games. He wrote: “I no longer think there’s a huge difference between for-profit and public higher education.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

At the end of every year since I founded Hack Education in 2010, I’ve reviewed what I think are the most important and influential trends in education technology. This is about the stories we’re told about education, about technology, and about education technology. (No

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Hack Education

AUGUST 19, 2016

Education Politics. One of the big stories this week: the US Department of Education ’s announcement about which “non-traditional providers” ( MOOCs , coding bootcamps ) will be eligible for financial aid as part of its EQUIP experiment. ” Education in the Courts. .”

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Hack Education

AUGUST 17, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. National) Education Politics. Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “The Education Dept.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2017

They can be something everybody uses; that’s how 2012 became the year of the MOOC, and why virtual reality will no doubt be widely cited as the trend of 2016. The rise of video carried over into education. MOOCs continued to increase in number and attendance. By Rebekah Ralph, LaGrange College Department of Education.

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Hack Education

JUNE 17, 2016

Education Politics. “ Education Department Proposes New Regulations to Protect Students and Taxpayers from Predatory Institutions.” ” Via The Fresno Bee : “Former Clovis Unified School District superintendent and popular Fresno-area education consultant Terry Bradley was censured and fined by the U.S. .

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

(National) Education Politics. “ Tax bill reflects rift between many Republicans and higher education,” The Washington Post reports. The education reform-minded publication The 74 says that “Educators Warn of ‘Devastating’ Consequences for Charter Schools in New GOP Tax Bill.”

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ProfHacker

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Part technologist, part artist, part manager, part synthesizer she is passionate about the use of technology in higher education and the many differing facets of how technology impacts society and culture. One case of particular interest was how MITx/EdX worked to reduce the global achievement gap in MOOCs (p. MOOCs vs Open textbooks).

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Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2017

This talk was presented at The University of Edinburgh's Moray House School of Education. “The Year of the MOOC” – I was summoned to Palo Alto, California for a small gathering to discuss the future of teaching, learning, and technology. Let me begin with a story. In December 2012 – we all remember 2012 right?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Stanford’s myth busters, led by education professor Sam Wineburg and doctoral student Sarah Cotcamp McGrew, have field-tested 15 news-literacy tasks of varying difficulty, with about 50 more in the works. Sam Wineburg, Stanford University education professor. Janis Schachter, Northport (N.Y.) High School social studies teacher.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

One of education technologies’s greatest luminaries passed away this year. Seymour, as my friend Gary Stager has described him , was the “inventor of everything (good) in education.” This is part six of my annual review of the year in ed-tech. I do so in Seymour’s memory.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. National) Education Politics. State and Local) Education Politics. Immigration and Education.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

(National) Education Politics. The Huffington Post filed Twitter’s response to Ivanka Trump ’s announcement under “comedy.” ” “The White House on Monday announced that it would nominate Mitchell “Mick” Zais as deputy secretary of education ,” Inside Higher Ed reports.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

(National) Education Politics. US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos launched a “rethink schools” tour. ” “What DeVos Got Wrong in Her Speech on the ’ Dear Colleague’ Letter ,” Scott Schneider writes in The Chronicle of Higher Education. State and Local) Education Politics.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. National) Education Politics. There’s more news out of the Department of Education in the accreditation section below.

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