eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Are academic credentials simply assumed to represent relevant learning, or do they actually document and verify competencies with evidence of learning? First and Foremost, Focus on Learning. How do we get from educational “business as usual” to cultural changes, even transformation, that make learning central?

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Competency Based Learning MOOC Outcomes Analysis 40

Bryan Alexander

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Myth 4: MOOCS will transform everything. This elicited the first pushback, as some people wrote in to celebrate their use of MOOCs for personal professional development. One chimed in with admiration for the Modern Poetry MOOC. Actually, profs use them primarily to share documents. And they fizzled.

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MOOC Technology Digital Divide Competency Based Learning 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. Whittle went on to have a string of business failures in the 1990s — well-documented in Samuel Abrams’s book The Commercial Mindset — most notably the for-profit flop Edison Schools.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2017

Via the Indianapolis Business Journal : “Legal skirmishes break out over ITT documents, data.” ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “As In-Person Bootcamps Falter, Codecademy Introduces Paid Online Options.”

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Khan Academy Elsevier Education MOOC 46