The CoolCatTeacher
MAY 13, 2019
Finally, Alec is a passionate advocate of openness in education and demonstrates this commitment through his open access publications, considerable digital presence and contributions, and highly successful MOOCs and open boundary courses. Blog: [link] Twitter: @courosa Disclosure of Material Connection: This is a “sponsored podcast episode.”
Edsurge
MAY 23, 2022
For that perspective, we recently connected with Matthew Tower, a principal at Workshop Venture Partners, a small, Massachusetts-based venture capital firm focused on climate and education. Edtech received an influx of investment last year, but some companies are now struggling, leading to dismal headlines about layoffs and declining stocks.
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Edsurge
FEBRUARY 17, 2017
He’s one of about 2,500 volunteer beta testers for Coursera , and part of an expanded quality-control effort the company started in the past year. Coursera was a pioneer in offering MOOCs, or massive open online courses, in partnership with hundreds of top colleges.
Edsurge
MARCH 5, 2020
At Sloan-sponsored summer workshops in upstate New York, some 20 years ago, I listened eagerly to pioneering faculty who imagined that virtual classes would be taught with radical education methods that had been proposed earlier by giants in progressive education—John Dewey, Jean Piaget and Paulo Freire, among others.
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? Can Evidence Even Keep Up with Edtech? EdSurge 4:00 p.m.
Edsurge
DECEMBER 19, 2017
So far this year, these companies raised over $1.2 educational technology companies whose primary purpose is to improve outcomes for teachers and learners across K-12 and higher education. billion—does not account for companies whose primary product and service focus on student loan refinancing. edtech companies.
The Principal of Change
FEBRUARY 14, 2017
In workshops, one of the things that I often say is that I am totally open to people disagreeing with me, but not after the day when I am gone. WestJet, an airline company in Canada, actually has all their employees as shareholders as well. Are people scared to challenge ideas in fear of retribution?
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