Digital Promise

DECEMBER 15, 2014

“I think instances of personalized learning will become more and more present in classroom settings. While this is a positive trend, I also hope adult education teachers are able to focus on teaching their students how to learn in a way that is content-agnostic. ” Melissa Gedney. League of Innovative Schools.

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Hack Education

JUNE 9, 2017

That seems to be Coursera ’s business model. “ Gates , Zuckerberg Philanthropies Team Up on Personalized Learning ,” Education Week reports. The “personalized learning” company has raised $6.8 The New York Times profiles the teacherless coding bootcamp Holberton. million total.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “ Andrew Ng , Co-Founder of Coursera , Returns to MOOC Teaching With New AI Course.” Via the Coursera blog : “What’s Next in Employee Learning: Virtual Reality.” .” Via Reuters : “Some U.S.

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Hack Education

APRIL 3, 2017

Every year since 2010, I’ve undertaken a fairly massive project in which I’ve reviewed the previous twelve months’ education and technology news in order to write ten articles covering “the top ed-tech trends.” They’re not “trends,” really. They’re themes. They’re categories.

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Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2017

” These certainly reflect larger trends at work dismantling the teaching profession – de-funding, de-professionalization, adjunctification, a dismissal of expertise and experience. How is “personalized learning” – the automation of education through algorithms – a form of “greyballing”?

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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?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

ESSA gives more autonomy and flexibility to states than they had under NCLB through competency-based assessments, which could drive the development of personalized learning technologies. What are education technology proponents doing, if anything, to minimize, rather than exacerbate, risk? Icon credits: The Noun Project

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

Not ed-tech per se (unless you recognize that “personalized learning” is greyballing), but according to The New York Times , “ Uber Faces Federal Inquiry Over Use of Greyball Tool to Evade Authorities.” I wrote about social-emotional learning (algorithms) as a “trend to watch.”

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Hack Education

JULY 15, 2016

” asks The Chronicle of Higher Education in an interview with Coursera’s Daphne Koller. One of the trends I’m watching this year is the investment – in venture capital and in PR – in “ social emotional development ” products and practices. “ Are MOOCs Forever ?” Spoiler alert: no.).

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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

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. They contend that their schools expand on Montessori’s vision by adding new digital technologies to “personalize learning,” as well as to surveil students. Coding Bootcamps.

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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). Sensing a trend here? for Robotics Contest.” Upgrades and Downgrades.

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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. One of those “trends” is surely “character development” (a.k.a. “grit” a.k.a.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Coursera co-founder “ Andrew Ng officially launches his $175M AI Fund,” says Techcrunch. ” From Educause : “ Higher Education’s Top 10 Strategic Technologies and Trends for 2018.” It isn’t really a fund per se. But that’s okay. MOOCs weren’t really MOOCs either.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

No doubt, Udacity, Coursera, and edX have been moving away from “free” and “open” online education for a while now , charging fees for courses and certificates and acting much more like online program management companies – third party vendors for Internet-based courses and degree programs.

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Hack Education

JUNE 22, 2018

” Also via Class Central : “ Coursera Lets Instructors A/B Test Their Courses, Experiments With Automated Coaching.” ” “ Personalized learning ” now includes working on a goat farm apparently. ” (Guess what’s going to be one of the " top ed-tech trends" this year ?).

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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. From The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ The 2018 Trends Report.”

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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

Coursera announces on its blog that it’s expanding to Brazil. It’s good to shake up your “everyone should learn to code” messaging sometimes, I guess. Here’s Coursera arguing “Why Everyone Should Learn Sales.” .” “Whatever Happened To MOOCs ?”

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Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “ Coursera ’s New Strategy Takes Inspiration From Netflix – and LinkedIn.” ” Via the Coursera blog : “Announcing Coursera for Governments & Nonprofits.” But hey, after raising some $5.66

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