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DECEMBER 22, 2017

Two school districts in two states are scaling back their use of the Facebook -built Summit Public Schools ’ learning management system. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). A call to rebrand MOOCs , from Edsurge. Via Wired : “Impatient With Colleges, Employers Design Their Own Courses.”

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APRIL 13, 2018

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before Congress this week about privacy, data, monopoly power, and regulations. And there’s more Facebook-related news in several of the sections below. ” Via The Verge : “ Facebook -backed lawmakers are pushing to gut privacy law.” (National) Education Politics.

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APRIL 21, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via WCTI12.com ” “ MOOCs Started Out Completely Free. Via the Udacity blog : “ Udacity Launches Mobile Developer Education with Facebook at F8.” ” The course will be offered at the University of Tennessee ’s Knoxville campus.

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MAY 25, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). MOOCs are back in the headlines again. Via Edsurge : “The Second Wave of MOOC Hype Is Here, and It’s Online Degrees.” “What Happened to Facebook ’s Grand Plan to Wire the World?” ” Finally. ” asks Wired.

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MAY 18, 2018

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Techcrunch : “ Facebook launches Youth Portal to educate teens on the platform, how their data is being used.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via Techcrunch : "Starting a robotics company out of school? million total.

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APRIL 14, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via the Coursera blog : “New mobile features: Transcripts, notes, and reminders.” " It’s lovely to see the big innovation from the MOOC startups in 2017 involves the learning management system. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Not really.

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JUNE 1, 2018

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Via Education Week : “How an Online Tutor Became a ‘Math Celebrity’ ” Via Edsurge : “ CSU and California Community Colleges Partner on a Tool to Find Transferable Online Courses.” ” Sponsored content from Newsela.

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JUNE 17, 2016

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Headline changed from “ Coursera ’s Update Will Eliminate Hundreds of Courses” to “Coursera’s Update Will Migrate Hundreds of Courses to a New Platform.” “Should for-profit crash courses get federal funds?

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AUGUST 11, 2017

Via The New York Times : New York governor “ Cuomo to Give Colleges $7 Million for Courses in Prisons.” ” Testing, Testing… The Chronicle of Higher Education reads “New Venture Will Offer Free Courses That Students Can Take for College Credit.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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JULY 20, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). “The cost of maintaining an online course for several years can eventually outstrip the launch cost – but the investment might just pay off,” says Inside Higher Ed. There’s more MOOC news in the credential section below. Because of course.

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DECEMBER 11, 2016

” But of course, that’s not quite true: my first introduction to Papert's work was actually a decade earlier, when I sat at an Apple II and taught a Turtle how to move about the screen. .” ” This argument is, of course, ridiculously daft, as “the liberal arts” has historically included math and science.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2018

And one for-profit story is in the Betteridge’s Law of Headlines section because of course. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Class Central : “ TU Delft Students Can Earn Credit For MOOCs From Other Universities.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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JANUARY 26, 2018

Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Blind students this week won a discrimination lawsuit against the legal education company BarBri – one of the country’s largest providers of bar exam preparation courses.” ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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OCTOBER 6, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Politico : Western Governors University , “the nation’s leading provider of competency-based educatio n – which the Education Department’s independent watchdog last month said violated federal student aid rules – is expanding into North Carolina.”

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JANUARY 12, 2018

Of course, the US can’t let the UK lead for too long when it comes to terrible people and terrible ideas in education. ” “Special bracelets” are, of course, ed-tech. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” The school in question: University of Cincinnati. News at 11.

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JUNE 16, 2018

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). “Free MOOCs Face the Music,” writes Inside Higher Ed on edX ’s decision to start charging fees. More “MOOC” news under the job training section below. Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Facebook Adds Community Colleges to Program.”

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APRIL 6, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). “The MOOC is not dead, but maybe it should be,” says Rolin Moe. Via the AP : “ Wyoming begins path to computer science courses in schools.” ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” Warning: income sharing agreements.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Via Techcrunch : “ Amazon opens its internal machine learning courses to all for free.” ” “Stop Asking About Completion Rates: Better Questions to Ask About MOOCs in 2019,” says Edsurge. .” What are these jobs?

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JUNE 23, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via The Post and Courier : “ South Carolina ’s online charter schools: A $350 million investment with disappointing returns.” “Mark Zuckerberg just unveiled Facebook ’s new mission statement,” says The Verge. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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OCTOBER 27, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” MOOCs. “Learning Creative Learning: It’s not a MOOC , it’s a community,” says the MIT Media Lab. “A Proposal to Put the ‘M’ Back in MOOCs ” – an op-ed by Class Central ’s Dhawal Shah in Edsurge.

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AUGUST 10, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” His son-in-law is Jared Kushner , of course. ” Via Techcrunch : “ Facebook launches Mentorships , matching people within Groups to help them guide each other.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. The Business of Job Training.

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MAY 5, 2017

“Is there an elegant way to administer exams in online courses ?” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Brown University joins edX. “ Y Combinator MOOC for Tech Startups Attracts Thousands of Views,” says Campus Technology. Not sure why this is called a MOOC.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Via The Daily Beast : “ Palmer Luckey : The Facebook Near-Billionaire Secretly Funding Trump’s Meme Machine.” Well, one thing’s for certain: between this and Peter Thiel on its board, Facebook is well-positioned for a Trump presidency. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”).

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JULY 13, 2018

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” The scheme involved Ed4Mil , “an online correspondence course provider,” and a former dean of Caldwell University. ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” The virtual charter school in question: ECOT.

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JULY 27, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news from Edsurge in the “job training” section below. There’s more MOOC news from Edsurge in the “job training” section below. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. The Business of Job Training.

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JULY 28, 2017

Trump’s budget, of course, cuts $9.2 Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Lots of MOOC PR appeared in the news this week. ” “What if MOOCs Revolutionize Education After All?” “Now that MOOCs are mainstream, where does online learning go next?”

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DECEMBER 30, 2019

There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. Um, they do.) Despite a few anecdotes, they’re really not.).

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Class Central : “ Monetizing A MOOC Platform.” ’” “Many College Courses Are Either Overloaded or Underfilled,” writes Jeffrey Young in Edsurge. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. And what is he going to do?

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MARCH 17, 2017

” This includes, of course, billionaire Betsy DeVos. Via Reuters : “ Apple , Google , Facebook skip legal challenge to new travel ban.” ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “A Corporate Learning Revolution” – a Coursera webinar. Are MOOCs webinars?

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JULY 6, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Techcrunch : “ Facebook is shutting down Hello, Moves and the anonymous teen app tbh due to ‘low usage’ ” The Have You Heard podcast on Theranos : “What the Sordid Saga of a Silicon Valley Start-Up Tells Us About # EdReform.”

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NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Of course, Dick DeVos also works for Trump in a way – or at least, he’s now on an FAA civilian panel. Meanwhile, as The New York Times reports : “ Facebook , Under Fire in Russia Inquiry, Posts 79% Rise in Profit.” Via Getting Smart : “ Digital Promise and Facebook Developing New Micro-Credentials Program.”

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DECEMBER 7, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill analyzes a recent interview with Coursera ’s CEO and argues the MOOC provider is “betting on OPM market and shift to low-cost masters degrees.” ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. million total.

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DECEMBER 8, 2017

” Of course he is. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). “ Should Children Form Emotional Bonds With Robots? Facebook is coming for your children. Via The New York Times : “New Facebook App for Children Ignites Debate Among Families.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via the Iowa City Press-Citizen : “ Iowa families foregoing classroom for virtual school.” Acumen “senior innovation associate” writes about +Acumen in Edsurge : “The Flip Side of Abysmal MOOC Completion Rates ? ” asks Edsurge.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “Should Online Courses Go Through ‘Beta Testing’?” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ FutureLearn , the massive open online course provider owned by the Open University in the U.K., NPR on MOOC Micromasters. ” asks Edsurge.

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DECEMBER 17, 2017

” I’ve looked at how for-profit colleges , MOOCs , and learn-to-code companies have tapped into these narratives in order to justify their products and services. ” That’s because the stories told this year to keep us hustling and to keep up imagining a certain kind of future are almost all about robots.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Via Inside Higher Ed : “Appeals court ruling continues decade-long legal battle between Georgia State University and three publishers over what constitutes ” fair use “ of course materials.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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