Hack Education

JUNE 17, 2016

Headline changed from “ Coursera ’s Update Will Eliminate Hundreds of Courses” to “Coursera’s Update Will Migrate Hundreds of Courses to a New Platform.” ” Coursera, initially only emailing former students about their old course work, decided finally to blog about its platform change.

Education 49

Education Coursera Microsoft Company 49

Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Via The Independent : “13-year-old girl arrested after contacting clown on social media and asking him to kill her teacher.” ” Coursera highlights its mentors – its volunteer mentors – on its blog. Data, Privacy, and Surveillance. ” Spoiler alert: not enough access to data.

Education 63

Education MOOC Report Khan Academy 63

Hack Education

DECEMBER 23, 2019

That's what a decade of ed-tech social media and PR have wrought: hashtag gurus and fake news. Coursera raised $109 million in venture company because investors are cray. My hope for the new decade is we can keep the lies out of their mouths. Udacity got a new CEO. ASU ends its MOOC experiment , Global Freshman Academy.

Technology 67

Technology Pearson Education MOOC 67

Hack Education

MAY 25, 2018

.” IHE blogger Joshua Kim offers “25 Million Reasons Why LinkedIn / Microsoft Will Buy Coursera.” And That Has Given It Some Eye-opening Data.” Data, Surveillance, and Information Security. ” Via NPR : “How Schools Across The Country Are Working To Detect Threats Made On Social Media.”

Education 46

Education MOOC Social Media Report 46

Hack Education

AUGUST 19, 2016

It's rolling out a social media push today using the hashtag #DontSettle4Cs to promote the program, called March2Success. Coursera ’s Daphne Koller announced in a blog post that she’s leaving the MOOC company she co-founded to work at a Alphabet (a.k.a. million people since 2003.” percent of U.S.

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MOOC Education Coursera Company 40

Doug Levin

MARCH 12, 2017

Ever wonder how stories promoted by ‘thought leaders’ on social media get selected? This from the school district that is still reeling from a major student data privacy breach. Alabama currently does not have a statewide platform for collecting longitudinal data that are gathered from year to year to plot change.

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EdTech E-rate OER Coursera 170

Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Many students cannot afford the heavy data usage required by geofencing apps, for starters. Furthermore, at launch, Pokémon Go demanded users sign over a great deal of personal data and grant permissions to the app that, for a time , gave it access to a user’s entire Google account. To data about students’ sexual identity?

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Data Technology Education Software 40

Graphite Blog

JANUARY 10, 2020

News and politics have been reshaped by social media and 24-hours news entertainment. As a result, there's a lot of crossover between what we think of as news literacy, media literacy, and digital citizenship. Each newsletter also ends with tips on incorporating the content into classrooms. E.S.C.A.P.E.

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Resources Classroom Social Media Report 97

Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Funding data about “learn to code” startups can be found at funding.hackeducation.com. ” Reflecting, perhaps, its Silicon Valley roots, the gig economy has been found to be rife with gender and racial bias and to benefit those with the greatest social and financial capital. ( Computer Science For All.

Technology 85

Technology Education Microsoft Industry 85

Hack Education

AUGUST 31, 2018

Via the Coursera blog : “Announcing the Global MBA from Macquarie University.” Really great investigative work on Department of Education data on school shootings by NPR’s Anya Kamenetz, Alexis Arnold, and Emily Cardinali : “The School Shootings That Weren’t.” SDG Academy has joined edX.

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Education Social Media Company Data 41

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Here is venture capital well spent: “ Coursera Promotes Its ‘Affordable Online Courses’ With New TV Ad Spots ,” says Class Central. tl;dr: emailing them, holding webinars, using social media. Data, Privacy, and Surveillance. ” The company in question: edX. Heckuva job. ” Clowns.

Education 40

Education Coursera Facebook Social Media 40

Hack Education

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Liberty University students have criticized their school’s president, Jerry Falwell Jr, and his media appearances supporting Trump. According to excerpts of speeches published by Wikileaks – stolen data – Clinton called the Common Core a “political failure” in a speech she gave to Knewton.

Education 40

Education lynda.com Knewton E-rate 40

Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

” Via Inside Higher Ed : “The IRS data retrieval tool that let financial aid applicants automatically import income information into the FAFSA won’t be restored for the current aid cycle, said James Runcie, chief operating officer of the Office of Federal Student Aid, in written testimony to Congress Wednesday.”

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Kaplan Education Blackboard MOOC 46

Hack Education

JULY 27, 2018

Via Edsurge : “ Coursera ’s First Ivy League Degree: An Online Master’s From the University of Pennsylvania.” ” ( Not mentioned : Penn was one of the very first investors in Coursera.). “ Are Universities Training Socially Minded Programmers? Data, Surveillance, and Information Security.

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Education MOOC E-rate Coursera 43

Hack Education

JANUARY 19, 2018

And more online education news in the “Betteridge’s Law of Headlines” section and in the research and data section below. ” More news about a data breach at a testing company in the infosec section below. Via Techcrunch : “ Google and Coursera launch program to train more IT support specialists.”

Education 44

Education Elsevier MOOC Knewton 44

Hack Education

APRIL 3, 2017

More data collection. Platforms enable and are enabled by APIs, by data collection and transference, by data analysis and data storage, by a marketplace of data (with users creating the data and users as the product). More analytics. More surveillance. They aspire to be monopolies.

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Trends Company MOOC Edmodo 64

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

DECEMBER 7, 2018

” Via The Sun Sentinel : “Student made social media threat to kill FAU professor, cops say.” 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.”

Education 54

Education MOOC Report Data 54

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

A public service announcement from the FBI : “ Education Technologies : Data Collection and Unsecured Systems Could Pose Risks to Students.” ” Data, Surveillance, and Information Security. ” Via The New York Times : “How Game Apps That Captivate Kids Have Been Collecting Their Data.”

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Education MOOC Blackboard E-rate 54

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Via Recode : “ Coursera has ousted several senior executives along with many rank-and-file staffers.” ” Inside Higher Ed also looks at how data is being talked about at the higher ed ed-tech event. ” “How Social Media Can Help Teach Good Writing,” according to Edsurge.

Education 48

Education Facebook Company Robotics 48

Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2017

More MOOC job changes: Techcrunch reports that “ Coursera ’s chief product officer just left to become a VC.” Once upon a time, Coursera updates went in the MOOC section. ” From the Coursera blog : “New on Coursera: start-to-finish learning paths for starting a new career.”

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Education Coursera MOOC Report 48

Hack Education

MARCH 10, 2017

As if applying for financial aid wasn’t difficult enough already, it appears that the IRS Data Retrieval Tool, which pulls tax information into the FAFSA app, “ will be unavailable for several weeks.” ” Via Chalkbeat : “Data shows Indiana students are taking AP exams, but half aren’t passing them.”

Education 46

Education Robotics E-rate Social Media 46

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Data-Protection Law Looms.” ” For those keeping track of how ed-tech is intertwined in all this, here’s a list of Yuri Milner ’s education investments : 17zuoye, Remind, Coursera, Clever, Codecademy, ClassDojo, and General Assembly. Maybe social media is broken, Cathy O’Neil suggests.

Education 45

Education Facebook Company Report 45

Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2016

” “ The Most Popular Courses of 2016 ” on Coursera. Edsurge rewrites Coursera’s infographic – because journalism – about which classes are popular in “red states” and which ones are popular in “blue states.” Data, Privacy, and Surveillance.

Education 40

Education Coursera lynda.com LMS 40

Hack Education

JUNE 22, 2018

From the Department of Education press release : “ Federal Commission on School Safety Meeting to Focus on the Effects of Entertainment , Media , Cyberbullying and Social Media on Violence and Student Safety.” Or this one: “A Growth Mindset Can Reduce the Gender Gap in STEM,” claims Coursera’s blog.

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Education Microsoft MOOC Coursera 44

Hack Education

MARCH 9, 2018

In Move Towards More Online Degrees, Coursera Introduces Its First Bachelor ’s.” ” “Coursera and other purveyors of massive open online courses supposedly signaled the end of traditional credentials and, as some told it, universities. Data, Surveillance, and Information Security. Vive la MOOC révolution.

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Education Kaplan Coursera MOOC 47

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

. “Schools across the country are about to be held accountable for student attendance – attaching stakes to a measure that previously had much less significance and increasing the risk that schools will try to manipulate that data,” according to Chalkbeat’s Matt Barnum. ” “Whatever Happened To MOOCs ?”

Education 47

Education OER Pearson Report 47

Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

was named in an investigation by The Associated Press last year for sharing racially charged content on social media.” Via The Guardian : “ Trump bans agencies from ‘providing updates on social media or to reporters’ ” This ban has been targeted at scientists at the EPA and USDA in particular.

Education 40

Education Coursera Robotics E-rate 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 8, 2016

” “ Coursera Monthly Subscriptions Channel Lynda and Pluralsight ,” says EduKwest’s Kirsten Winkler. Data, Privacy, and Surveillance. ” “So-So Social Media Privacy? ” “So-So Social Media Privacy? ” “Does Your State Provide Good Data On Your Schools?

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