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How Blockbuster MOOCs Could Shape the Future of Teaching

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After all, so-called MOOCs, or massive open online courses, were meant to open education to as many learners as possible, and in many ways they are more like books (digital ones, packed with videos and interactive quizzes) than courses. million, split between the course provider and the company. That means it brought in more than $2.5

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A Nonprofit Spent Five Years Counting a Million Credentials. What Does It All Add Up To?

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As an afternoon of Zoom presentations gave way to an evening of conversations over cocktails, the purpose and potential of all that tallying came into focus. Other efforts underway may more directly reveal, or influence, the outcomes that various credentials offer to students and companies. to celebrate its anniversary.

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Coursera Couple Returns to Higher Ed With $14.5M to Recreate In-Person Learning, Online

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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. There are built-in tools to add questions to any presentation slide. It was never secondary for me, as it is for some faculty,” she says.

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

Wired Campus

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. Five people presented. Freund: When I sold my previous company, I had some time at my hands for the first time really in my life. Young: Thank you.

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The Rough Beasts of Ed-Tech

Hack Education

” Rebellions and republics – on our minds because of historic events from the past, on our minds because of historic events of the present and the future. 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?

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” The details: “The Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) ruling came after a secondary school student in Germany downloaded a photograph of Cordoba from a travel website to illustrate a presentation which was then published on the school website.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”).

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

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. Sometimes they strike a deal.

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