Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2022

The first ghost that Ebenezer Scrooge meets in “A Christmas Carol” is the spirit of his business partner, Jacob Marley. It has also led to the rise of new groups, called DAOs, that are experimenting with less-hierarchical ways to conduct business. Scrooge asks the spirit of his old friend why it’s shackled. “I

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Avida is the husband of Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller, and one of the first board members of the company that helped put the spotlight on massive online open courses, or MOOCs. Students are “seated” in virtual tables, in groups of up to 10. Students “seated” at different virtual tables groups on Engageli.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Some of the podcasters got their start making educational videos or or producing MOOCs, those free online classes that were all the rage a few years ago, but ended up not living up to the hype. That’s the case for Davis, who for several years was a producer of video classes for HarvardX, Harvard’s MOOC production wing. “I

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Speakers from Newsela, New Market Venture Partners and Academic Business Advisors open up about how the lightning-fast pace of edtech development requires companies to produce evidence for schools in a shortened time frame. The Evolution of MOOCs: Six Years Later : Are MOOCs still around? Can Evidence Even Keep Up with Edtech?

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2020

in February, rising across all groups of workers - with workers with l ower levels of educational attainment the most vulnerable to job loss. Early reports indicate that many blue-chip companies have begun to freeze or rescind hiring offers to graduating students. The national unemployment rate jumped to 4.4%, up from 3.5%

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The Principal of Change

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Are people more likely to complain after a professional learning meeting, than in one? I have watched schools go “1 to 1”, while still inundating staff with handouts and giant post it notes in staff meetings. What does the time look like in staff meetings or professional learning time?

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Imagine students in a control group go from 50% on a pre-test to 60% on a post-test, whereas in the treatment group they go from 50% to 80%,” he explains. Newkirk calls his company Acuitus , in hopes of encouraging sharpness of thought. For him, improving the speed of learning is just part of it.

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2018

That, in theory, will allow each campus to focus its energies on what it can do best and turn to outside companies and nonprofits for the rest. And I remember one of the MOOC founders who said five years later, well MOOCs have failed as an educational experiment. They’re from the community around the campus. Here’s the gap.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Companies like Microsoft, Facebook and Google are all dipping their toes into virtual and augmented reality. DeSchryver and Cavanagh will look at how ESSA is guiding the work of edtech companies now and in the future. Monday, March 6 9:30 a.m. Will VR Really Impact Student Outcomes? But will VR and AR live up to its hype? 2:00 p.m.

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Wired Campus

MARCH 10, 2015

Students would meet in virtual classrooms where they would discuss course material using videoconferencing technology. In 2011 it began offering online summer courses to small groups of undergraduates for credit. In 2013 it joined with Coursera and started building MOOCs.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2017

Since the New York Times named 2012 the year of massive open online courses (MOOCs), millions have flocked to platforms offering them such as edX and Coursera. The six-week long MOOC will touch on topics including open educational resources (OER), open pedagogy and practice, open knowledge and open research. Ekowo: Why this MOOC?

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 20, 2014

Being an Academic has allowed me to travel widely, to meet some very interesting people and to set my own research agenda. Unlike most research centres, even those at Open Universities, at Athabasca our faculty work from home offices and we may never meet our graduate students face-to-face. What are your views on MOOCs?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The pair then started the company in January 2013. At the time they were not alone in their efforts; Coursera, Udacity (both of which were also co-founded by Stanford professors) and edX had launched MOOC platforms a year earlier. These online courses are easy to sign up for, yet few students actually stick through and finish them.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

This summer yielded a surprising announcement in the world of online education: that edX, founded by Harvard University and MIT a decade ago as a nonprofit alternative to for-profit online education providers, had agreed to sell its operations to a for-profit company, 2U.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2019

The university is working with a group called the Empirical Educator Project , run by the popular education blog e-Literate , which today announced it will run a series of hackathons over the next year at colleges that are part of its group. The group is calling it the EDwhy initiative, in which the ED stands for educational design.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

Check out our growing list of MOOCs and Courses on the EdSurge Index. First, create a target list of 10-50 companies, as well as employees that work in roles you are interested in at those companies. The most important tip for these coffee or drink meetings is to do your homework. This is especially relevant in edtech.

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Wired Campus

APRIL 30, 2015

In the TV series Shark Tank, entrepreneurs with budding companies pitch their ideas to a panel of investors who ask probing questions and then decide whether to back the proposals. Freund: When I sold my previous company, I had some time at my hands for the first time really in my life. Each spoke from a different perspective — Ms.

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2019

He’s the guy who coined the term MOOC, short for Massive Open Online Course, which then was a reference to multiplayer video games. Sit in enough faculty meetings, meet with enough leadership, and it becomes clear that it’s all about money. You say in your tweet that faculty meetings today are all about enrollment and money.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Chopra worked at the CFPB and, while there, “sued two for-profit-college companies – ITT Educational Services Inc. The district failed to meet its burden of proof and interpreted a state law in a way that is ‘offensive to fundamental rights of free speech,’ the judge said.” and Corinthian Colleges Inc.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). is the new company of Andrew Ng , Coursera’s co-founder.) ” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Meet the New Mega-University.” More robot news up in the MOOC section above. on Coursera.” ” (deeplearning.ai

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Hack Education

MAY 18, 2018

Via Forbes : “The Startup President: How France ’s Macron Nearly Built An EdTech Company.” ” Ed-tech: where you don’t need an actual product idea for a company, and you can incubate your neoliberalism anyway. Via Inside Higher Ed : “Career Training Groups Encouraged by Trump Pick for CTE Job.”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2016

radio and televisions in the early 20th century and online learning and MOOCs via the Internet in the early 21st century.) Do they opens the door for companies to take the lead on how students learn and how their data is used? (Distance education took place via. Do they help or hurt underrepresented students?

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Hack Education

JUNE 17, 2016

Securities and Exchange Commission for allegedly sharing five school districts’ private information with an advisory company while it was negotiating for the districts’ contracts.” ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” (Hmm. .” Via The Washington Post : “Former U-Va.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). MOOC hype deja vu.). Via The Bleacher Report : “Meet the team of 11- and 12-year-old mini-Kaepernicks protesting during the national anthem in southeast Texas – despite death threats and their coach’s suspension after a nonstop fight against injustice.”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

But then their teacher, Will Colglazier, demonstrated how a couple more exploratory clicks—critically, beyond the site itself—revealed that the Employment Policies Institute is considered by the Center for Media and Democracy to be a front group created by lobbyists for the restaurant and hotel industries. “I

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Hack Education

JUNE 9, 2017

“But he said the initiative is different from the group he had been tapped to lead in late January.” DeVos' Chief of Staff Josh Venable was director of special projects for Windquest Group, DeVos' family investment office, until January [link] — Caitlin Emma (@caitlinzemma) June 7, 2017.

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

While I was an embedded academic with the company, I played amateur anthropologist to learn all I could about corporate practices. What practices of really effective companies, in which creativity and innovation are important, seem to have the biggest impact? In a great company, everybody assumes responsibility for everything.

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EdTechTeacher

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

To begin, he tells the story of working at Apple, meeting Steve Jobs, and the culture of being at Macintosh. The companies who succeed began because they want to make the world a better place. Guy then shows a number of companies that succeeded. These companies all changed the world and made meaning for the world.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Mostly tutoring companies.). “ ICE officials have invited tech companies, including Microsoft , to develop algorithms that will track visa holders’ social media activity ,” ProPublica reports. ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” The University of Iceland has joined edX.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Via NPR on Sunday : “ President Trump Set To Meet With Presidents Of Historically Black Colleges And Universities.” ” Via NPR on Tuesday : “ Trump, And Most Black College Presidents, Absent From Annual Meeting.” Via The Washington Post : “ Student loan companies reach $21.6 million total. (No

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Hack Education

JUNE 1, 2018

Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Higher-Ed Groups Warn Against Visa Restrictions for Chinese Students.” ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). The assessment company has raised over $52 million total. .” I don’t know if “deport” is the right verb here.

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Hack Education

MAY 26, 2016

“To reconstitute” is to re-form an organization or a group in a new way. Just call your credit card company and ask for an extension on your line of credit, instructors purportedly told students. What are MOOCs, for example? To re-establish order. To devise new rules. To settle upon new governance. We can act.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2018

Dance concealed about $12,000 in payments he received through his consulting work in 2015, including $4,600 from an organization called the Education Research and Development Institute – ERDI for short – that pays superintendents to attend meetings with educational tech companies. ” The Business of Financial Aid.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

” Via the Phoenix New Times : “Meet the Creationist Helping to Change Arizona School Standards on Evolution.” 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.”

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

” Via The Washington Post : “ DeVos rejects invitation to meet with former for-profit college students.” ” Via The Intercept : “Conservative Provocateur James O’Keefe ’s Group Hit With Restraining Order, Blocking Latest Sting.” ” The largest student loan company is Navient.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

” Via NPR : “Meet Jin Park , The First DACA Recipient Awarded A Rhodes Scholarship.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “Stop Asking About Completion Rates: Better Questions to Ask About MOOCs in 2019,” says Edsurge. .” The company has raised $16.6

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

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. “ Is Running a Company Like Leading a Classroom? Remember: robots for the elderly share a direct connection to MOOCs replacing higher ed.).

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