Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2018

One selling point of MOOCs (massive online open courses) has been that students can access courses from the world’s most famous universities. In fact, three of the 10 most popular courses on Coursera aren’t produced by a college or university at all, but by a company. The five-week sequence is what Coursera calls a “Specialization.”)

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Hack Education

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.

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Hack Education

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.” ” “Like it’s a TV show.”

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Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

” That’s Joel Rose ’s School of One software. ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “ Andrew Ng , Co-Founder of Coursera , Returns to MOOC Teaching With New AI Course.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Via The LA Times : “Former L.A.

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Hack Education

JUNE 9, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” If you can’t create revenue, raise venture capital. That seems to be Coursera ’s business model. Via Edsurge : “How U of Michigan Built Automated Essay-Scoring Software to Fill ‘Feedback Gap’ for Student Writing.”

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Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2017

“The Year of the MOOC” – I was summoned to Palo Alto, California for a small gathering to discuss the future of teaching, learning, and technology. Perhaps with this data, the MOOC providers can build a map of professional if not cognitive pathways. “Robots are coming for your job.”

Education 40

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

.” Note the significant difference in language in this headline from The Verge , for example – “ Harvard’s Root robot teaches kids how to code ” – and the way in which Seymour would describe the LOGO Turtle – that students would using programming to teach the robot. See: the LMS, the MOOC.

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Technology Education Microsoft Industry 85

Hack Education

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Via Techcrunch : “ Holberton gets backing from more industry executives as it looks to scale its software engineering school.” 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.

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Brown University joins edX. I missed this news earlier in April, via Class Central : financial aid applications for Coursera take at least 15 days. “ Y Combinator MOOC for Tech Startups Attracts Thousands of Views,” says Campus Technology.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Here is venture capital well spent: “ Coursera Promotes Its ‘Affordable Online Courses’ With New TV Ad Spots ,” says Class Central. ” Something something Brexit something something MOOCs will save British higher ed.

Education 40

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Hack Education

JANUARY 19, 2018

.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news in the job training section below. Via Techcrunch : “ Google and Coursera launch program to train more IT support specialists.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Doane University has joined edX.

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Education Elsevier MOOC Knewton 44

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Or the company will have to start charging for the software. In 2018, Mozilla said it would retire Backpack, its platform for sharing and displaying badges, and would help users move their badges to Badgr, software developed by the tech company Concentric Sky. The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That).

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). “ Robots won’t replace teachers because they can’t inspire us.” ” That’s the headline describing a conversation between Recode and Coursera ’s Daphne Koller. .” MOOCs losing their mojo? edtech https://t.co/DOo11lof2f

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Hack Education

MARCH 24, 2017

Via The USA Today : “Kids on winning robotics team told, ‘Go back to Mexico’ ” The kids were from Pleasant Run Elementary School in Indianapolis. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ Coursera Removes Biometric Identity Verification Using Keystroke Matching,” Class Central reports.

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Education Coursera Robotics E-rate 52

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Class Central : “ Monetizing A MOOC Platform.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Probably my favorite “robots are the future of education” story in a good, long while.

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Education MOOC Blackboard E-rate 54

Hack Education

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.

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Education MOOC Report Data 54

Hack Education

JULY 14, 2017

” More on the Afghan robotics team in the contest section below. ” Via Education Dive : “ Coursera ’s Tom Willerer talks personalization, access.” for Robotics Contest.” ” Adaptive software is not the same as personalized learning , says eSchool News. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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Education Pearson Report Robotics 45

Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Launches Online School to Teach Software Development.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via The GW Hatchet : “Oversight of online learning programs lacking in some schools, report finds.” Once upon a time, Coursera updates went in the MOOC section.

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Hack Education

MARCH 10, 2017

” Via Education Week : “The Ohio education department could seek repayment of more than $80 million from nine full-time online schools , based on audits of software-login records that led state officials to determine the schools had overstated their student enrollment.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” iPad use?!

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Education Robotics E-rate Social Media 46

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. But anyway… Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. For-Profit Colleges.” ” asks Edsurge. ” No.

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Education Facebook Company Report 45

Hack Education

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Forbes : “This Company Could Be Your Next Teacher: Coursera Plots A Massive Future For Online Education.” ” There’s more MOOC news in the “business of education” section below. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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Education MOOC Robotics Panasonic 51

Hack Education

JUNE 22, 2018

” That’s a school district in Wisconsin , and the learning software in question is the Summit Learning Platform , created by the Summit charter school chain and built by Facebook and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” (So yeah.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). “ Coursera ’s 2018 Revenue Estimated to be $140 million,” Class Central estimates. There’s more MOOC news down in the “labor and management” section below. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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Education Khan Academy Company MOOC 60

Hack Education

MAY 26, 2017

” Via Education Week : “ Iowa schools to stop using $14M testing software after audit.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Slate : “ The New Diploma Mills.” Via MinnPost : “Almost 50 years ago, Oregon Trail revolutionized educational software.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 8, 2016

million in charges from a Minnesota company over a software system that repeatedly failed during mandatory statewide elementary school testing.” ” “ Coursera Monthly Subscriptions Channel Lynda and Pluralsight ,” says EduKwest’s Kirsten Winkler. college testing scam , to be deported.”

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