Hack Education

OCTOBER 14, 2016

” That for-profit is Laureate Education , the largest chain of for-profit schools in the world and an investor in Coursera. Perhaps, instead of tying “ personalized learning ” to special ed policies of the 1970s, you could read some Rousseau? Khan Academy wants to start offering diplomas. What could go wrong?!

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

Via Education Week : “Congress Budget Deal Bans New Gold-Standard Studies of Federal Vouchers.” ” Via The LA Times : “Trump is ending Michelle Obama’s ‘ Let Girls Learn ’ initiative, CNN reports.” CNN tries to explain “Why Google , Apple and Microsoft are battling for education.”

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Hack Education

JULY 27, 2018

Via Wired : “Congress Has a $65 Million Proposal to Study Tech’s Effect on Kids.” 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.).

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Hack Education

APRIL 3, 2017

Rather it’s a history itself – ideally one that’s useful for our thinking about the past, present, and future in the way in which the study of history always should be. Silicon Valley does include Mountain View, where Google is headquartered. It also includes Cupertino, where Apple is headquartered.

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Hack Education

MARCH 24, 2017

” “How to Con Black Law Students: A Case Study” – Elie Mystal in The New York Times on a partnership between the HBCU Bethune-Cookman and the for-profit Arizona Summit Law School. An update on Coursera co-founder Andrew Ng’s employment status in the HR section below. Tressie McMillan Cottom weighs in.

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Education Coursera Robotics E-rate 52

Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

” That’s the headline describing a conversation between Recode and Coursera ’s Daphne Koller. ” Try learning styles, maybe. “ What We Learned From Talking with 100 MOOC Students ” by Justin Reich (and George Veletsianos and Laura Pasquini). month gives you a “personalized learning plan.”

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Hack Education

JULY 15, 2016

” asks The Chronicle of Higher Education in an interview with Coursera’s Daphne Koller. A “ personalized learning explainer ” from Mindwire Consulting. ” Google has released its 2016 Scholar Metrics. ” A study has found companies are not happy with their corporate LMSes.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For their part, critics of laptop bans claimed the studies the op-eds frequently cite were flawed, reductive, and out-of-date. In 2013, Intel acquired Kno for $15 million — for “ pennies on the dollar ,” said one analyst — and rebranded the software as the Intel Education Study App. Google Reader. They’re distracting others.

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Hack Education

MARCH 17, 2017

Cuts to work study. 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. “Problems with Personalized Learning ” by Dan Meyer.

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Education MOOC Company Report 46

Hack Education

JULY 14, 2017

” Via Education Dive : “ Coursera ’s Tom Willerer talks personalization, access.” ” Willerer was previously at Netflix (just to give you an idea of the meaning of “personalization” in the headline). ” Google profiles Niji Collins , a winner in the latest Google Code-In contest.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 7, 2018

This study says fix unstable housing, not schools.” ” Via Chalkbeat : “New early learning initiative brings Sesame Street lessons into Memphis classrooms.” Google has acquired lesson-provider Workbench. Catapult Learning has acquired LifeShare USA. Edcast has raised $33.6 million total.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

" The majors include sociology, media studies, and political science. Via Recode : “ Coursera has ousted several senior executives along with many rank-and-file staffers.” “Why the Best Personalized Learning Programs Start Way Before High School,” according to Edsurge. Take it back from whom?

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Education Facebook Company Robotics 48

Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2017

” Via Edsurge : “The Makings (and Misgivings) of a Statewide Effort to Personalize Learning in Massachusetts.” 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.

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Education Coursera MOOC Report 48

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Via Wired : “Ex- Google Employee Claims Wrongful Firing For Criticizing James Damore ’s Memo.” Imperial College London will teach a class on artificial intelligence on the Coursera platform. Via The Verge : “ James Damore ’s labor complaint against Google was completely shut down.”

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

” Via Techcrunch : “ Google expands Howard West to a full-year program to train more black engineers.” Via EdWeek’s Market Brief : “ Google for Education Launches Beta for ‘Create Your Own’ Virtual Reality Experience.” A new study says yes.” The Business of Job Training.

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Education MOOC Company Pearson 45

Hack Education

MARCH 31, 2017

.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Inside Higher Ed : “Online education platform Coursera has set a goal of offering 15 to 20 degree programs by the end of 2019. ” Via Edsurge : “ Coursera ’s Rick Levin on the Evolution of MOOCs and Microcredentials.”

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Education Coursera Pearson Report 40

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

” 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. Amy Silverman writes in The Phoenix New Times about ASU ’s decision not to approve a disability studies major.

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Education Facebook Company Report 45

Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

“ How Not to Study Donald Trump ” – “To make sense of Trumpism, and to put Trump in his historical context, The Chronicle of Higher Education asked a mostly white group of scholars to suggest readings for a syllabus for a mock course in Trump Studies. Presidential Campaign Politics. “Can U.S.

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Coursera Education E-rate Company 60

Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2017

.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “As In-Person Bootcamps Falter, Codecademy Introduces Paid Online Options.” ” Codecademy, Edsurge contends, is now a competitor to Coursera and Udacity. Spoiler alert: it’s about learning how to teach differently.).

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Hack Education

JUNE 22, 2018

.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Crisis-level student loan default rates among black borrowers and those who attended for-profits cannot be explained fully by students’ backgrounds, study finds, including measures of income, employment and parental wealth.” ” More in The Hechinger Report. ” asks Education Dive.

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Hack Education

APRIL 7, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via the Coursera blog : “ Coursera now offers free trials for most Specializations.” ” “ Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Hiring Personalized-Learning Engineers ,” says Education Week. “Learning engineers.”

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

” Via Chalkbeat : “ Trump education nominee pleads ignorance about high-profile voucher studies showing negative results.” ” “ Google Is Being Investigated By Missouri Attorney General,” Fortune reports. Coursera announces on its blog that it’s expanding to Brazil.

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Hack Education

JULY 21, 2017

Via NBC : “ Arizona : Lawsuit Alleging Discrimination In Mexican American Studies Ban Back in Court.” Coursera has a new partner , the insurance company AXA , which will offer some 300 Coursera classes to its employees. ” “ Personalized learning ” equals cutting the teacher workforce in Oklahoma.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

Via The New York Times : “ Google , in Post-Obama Era, Aggressively Woos Republicans ” – so enjoy that Google Certification, educators. Via Education Week : “ Mississippi Attorney General Sues Google Over Student-Data Privacy.” ” That’d be Hugo Barra , a former Google exec.

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Education Coursera Robotics E-rate 40

Hack Education

MAY 26, 2017

” That’d be Blake Wentworth, who taught in the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies. A report from VC firm GSV Acceleration : “It’s a Breakout: Capital Flows In the Learning and Talent Technology Market.” “Tracking Google and Microsoft Adoption in Higher Ed” by Jim Siegl.

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