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Coursera Is Now a Public Company. What Does That Mean For Higher Education?

Edsurge

Coursera’s founders and CEO rang the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange today, as the online-learning company became a rare edtech enterprise to go public. And because it’s a pandemic, the event was online and the bell was virtual (perhaps fitting for an online-learning company). What does it need all that for? There are 1.3

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The Trends and Challenges Shaping Technology Adoption In Schools

MindShift

The report notes, “Success in teaching is closely tied to test results, and teachers are not frequently rewarded for innovative approaches and improvements in teaching and learning, much less allowed to scale and replicate these breakthroughs.” Teachers are becoming more comfortable with this idea of “blending learning.”.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

It holds true for my work too, of course.) There may be no better example of this in 2017 than “personalized learning.” “Personalized learning” has powerful advocates, least of which US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos who talks about it as part of her broader initiative to “rethink school.”

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) To believe that would require, of course, that we overlook the role that the major technology platforms – Google, Facebook, and Amazon – play in education.

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The future includes good (human) teachers

The Hechinger Report

– China’s state-controlled news broadcasters have long been considered somewhat robotic in their daily recitation of pro-government propaganda, and a pair of new presenters will do little to dispel that view. English AI looks like all the other talking heads sitting at a news desk, but the English-speaking anchor isn’t a person.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). From the Coursera blog : “Announcing ‘ AI for Everyone ’: a new course from deeplearning.ai ” (So instead of “testing” we’ll have ubiquitous, non-stop surveillance / assessment via “personalized learning.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). A call to rebrand MOOCs , from Edsurge. ” But yes, please do go on about how personalization will make education “more just.” Via Wired : “Impatient With Colleges, Employers Design Their Own Courses.” ” Contests and Awards.