Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2017

It’s the model of human learning by someone who claims expertise in machine learning, a field of study which has aspired to model if not surpass the human mind. Universities have already taken plenty of steps towards this end, without the help of algorithms or for-profit software providers.

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DECEMBER 16, 2016

I’ll look more closely at discrimination by design – in software and in algorithms – in the final article in this series.) 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.

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OCTOBER 27, 2017

Via Techcrunch : “ Holberton gets backing from more industry executives as it looks to scale its software engineering school.” Edsurge profiles Dr. Chuck about his work on MOOCs with Coursera. ( From the Coursera blog : “Building India ’s Workforce for 2020.”

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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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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.” I wrote about social-emotional learning (algorithms) as a “trend to watch.”

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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. Personalization, in all these manifestations, is a programmatic expression of individualism.

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DECEMBER 30, 2019

Or the company will have to start charging for the software. For their part, critics of laptop bans claimed the studies the op-eds frequently cite were flawed, reductive, and out-of-date. The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That). And “free” doesn’t last. Without revenue the company will go away.

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JULY 15, 2016

” asks The Chronicle of Higher Education in an interview with Coursera’s Daphne Koller. Via Education Week : “Ed-Tech Software Group Objects to Messages in Feds’ #GoOpen Campaign.” A “ personalized learning explainer ” from Mindwire Consulting. “ Are MOOCs Forever ?”

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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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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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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). .” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ OpenStax Launches Learning Platform.”

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DECEMBER 7, 2018

This study says fix unstable housing, not schools.” ” Via Chalkbeat : “New early learning initiative brings Sesame Street lessons into Memphis classrooms.” “The Promise and Peril of Personalization ” from Stanford’s Center for the Internet and Society. What could go wrong. million total.

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OCTOBER 20, 2017

” Via Edsurge : “The Makings (and Misgivings) of a Statewide Effort to Personalize Learning in Massachusetts.” Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Launches Online School to Teach Software Development.” Once upon a time, Coursera updates went in the MOOC section. Paul School Lunch Debt.”

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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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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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JUNE 22, 2018

.” Via the Journal Sentinel : “More than 300 Kettle Moraine parents sign petition against online learning platform.” ” Also via Class Central : “ Coursera Lets Instructors A/B Test Their Courses, Experiments With Automated Coaching.” ” (So yeah. .” ” More in The Hechinger Report.

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MAY 26, 2017

” Via Education Week : “ Iowa schools to stop using $14M testing software after audit.” ” That’d be Blake Wentworth, who taught in the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies. Via MinnPost : “Almost 50 years ago, Oregon Trail revolutionized educational software.

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