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Facebook Seems to Be Adding Video-Course Features. For Edtech, That Raises Old Fears.

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version of the platform and shared a screenshot on Twitter. That MOOC space includes online learning platform and edtech “unicorn” Coursera, which went public last year , and edX, which lost its nonprofit status when it was bought by the for-profit company 2U last year.

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Pros and Cons of Using eLearning Software in Your Classroom

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Here are some educational resources and software that can help teachers keep pace with the innovations and implement them in their classrooms: eLearning Industry | Online Education Blog It is one of the biggest communities for eLearning professionals, designed as a massive wisdom-sharing forum and educational news portal.

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What Happens When Ed-Tech Forgets? Some Thoughts on Rehabilitating Reputations

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It's entertaining, I guess — the dinosaurs and the Neanderthals and the Industrial Revolution, and stuff like that. Despite the failure of AllLearn, in 2014, Levin was named the CEO of Coursera. A critic of the company, Linkletter posted links to unlisted YouTube videos — that is, publicly available information — on Twitter.

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?Readers’ Roundup: EdSurge HigherEd’s Top 10 Articles of 2017

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Coursera to Charge Fees for Previously Free Courses Once hailed as a portal for free learning materials, accessible to anyone with an internet connection, Coursera announced this year plans to charge if learners want to submit assignments to be graded for certain courses.

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What Do You Call It When Colleges Turn Their Research Powers On Their Own Practices?

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In deciding whether to join one or both of the two major MOOC platforms, edX or Coursera, some colleges created new positions to oversee those efforts and think about broader strategies around teaching and using other digital tools to improve the student experience. What I sense in this group is a lot of anxiety,” he says.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” (Edsurge, for what it’s worth, shares investors with Class Central, Udacity, and Coursera (although there’s no disclosure on that article to that end) – funny how the narratives about the “revolutionary” potential of MOOCs get spread, eh?). ” The company in question is called Sqore.

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(This Is Not a Morphology of) The Monsters of Education Technology

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. “Nothing has more potential to enable us to reimagine higher education than the massive open online course, or MOOC, platforms that are being developed by the likes of Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and companies like Coursera and Udacity.” But I face them all the time, particularly on Twitter.