Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Just a few weeks after Daphne Koller ’s announcement she was leaving the MOOC startup she co-founded, Coursera unveiled “ Coursera for Business ” this week, marking its pivot from “democratizing higher ed” to “ training corporate employees.” Robots probably won’t take your jobs.

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Hack Education

JUNE 17, 2016

” Via Politico : “ Trump steps up fight to keep Trump University deposition videos secret.” Headline changed from “ Coursera ’s Update Will Eliminate Hundreds of Courses” to “Coursera’s Update Will Migrate Hundreds of Courses to a New Platform.”

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2018

The assumption—especially in the marketing messages from major providers like Coursera and edX—is that the winners of traditional higher education will also end up the winners in the world of online courses. 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.

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Hack Education

JUNE 9, 2017

That seems to be Coursera ’s business model. Via Edsurge : “As LinkedIn ’s Video Library Grows, Company Says It Has No Plans to Compete With Colleges.” Inside Higher Ed on “ Video Games as a College Sport.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Kiron and Red Hat have joined edX.

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Hack Education

MAY 25, 2018

” IHE blogger Joshua Kim offers “25 Million Reasons Why LinkedIn / Microsoft Will Buy Coursera.” ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via Edsurge : “The Second Wave of MOOC Hype Is Here, and It’s Online Degrees.” ” “ Cyber Charters in at Least 5 States Face Closure.

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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.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” More via Wired.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

” The for-profit: Laureate Education (which once began as the tutoring chain Sylvan Learning and is now an investor in Coursera, I always like to point out). ” Via Edsurge : “What Video Games Like Doom Teach Us About Learning, According to GBL Guru James Paul Gee.” Meanwhile on Campus.

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2018

” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Fraternity Members Suspended for Racist, Homophobic Video.” ” From the Coursera blog : “ Coursera for Business Is Now Available to Small and Medium-Sized Businesses.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Then It Wasn’t.”

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Here is venture capital well spent: “ Coursera Promotes Its ‘Affordable Online Courses’ With New TV Ad Spots ,” says Class Central. Via The Wall Street Journal : “ Facebook Overestimated Key Video Metric for Two Years.” ” Time to buy more TV ads, Khan Academy and Coursera!

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

I missed this news earlier in April, via Class Central : financial aid applications for Coursera take at least 15 days. ” Via Business Insider : “ Surveillance videos show police officer allegedly abusing high school students.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Not sure why this is called a MOOC.

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Hack Education

JULY 27, 2018

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.). ” Or, SuperAwesome has launched an app that features kid-friendly video content with a ton of advertising.

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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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Hack Education

DECEMBER 7, 2018

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.” “ YouTube deletes cheating videos after BBC investigation,” the BBC boasts.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

It was probably Sal Khan’s 2011 TED Talk “Let’s Use Video to Reinvent Education” and the flurry of media he received over the course of the following year or so that introduced the idea of the “flipped classroom” to most people. Why are video-taped lectures so “revolutionary” if lectures themselves are supposedly not? (As

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

” The provider in question is Coursera , which has raised some $146.1 ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. “In an age of robots , schools are teaching our children to be redundant,” says George Monbiot. ” Raybaby also “builds a photo/video collage of the baby for posterity.”

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

On video games , for example – yes, that old canard. Imperial College London will teach a class on artificial intelligence on the Coursera platform. I’ve got all the “learn-to-code” news in the job training section, because let’s be honest… Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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Hack Education

MARCH 10, 2017

” Via The Financial Times : “ Coursera chief on the future of online learning and the Trump era.” ” New Nanodegrees from Udacity : Digital Marketing and Robotics. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Robots hate the Common Core. More on the politics of online education in the politics section above.

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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. Via The New York Times : “On YouTube Kids , Startling Videos Slip Past Filters.” ” No.

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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.” Or this one: “A Growth Mindset Can Reduce the Gender Gap in STEM,” claims Coursera’s blog. ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 26, 2018

” Via NPR : “ Texas High Schools To Require Police Interaction Education Video.” “ Coursera ’s 2018 Revenue Estimated to be $140 million,” Class Central estimates. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Video streaming site Cheddar has acquired Rate My Professors. ” JFC.

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Hack Education

JULY 21, 2017

Coursera has a new partner , the insurance company AXA , which will offer some 300 Coursera classes to its employees. Via NPR : “Students Compete In First-Ever International High School Robotics Competition.” ” The New York Times reports that “ Burundi Robotics Team Vanishes After U.S. Competition.”

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Hack Education

MAY 26, 2017

” Via The Times-Picayune : “ New Orleans principal loses job after wearing Nazi-associated rings in video.” ” According to this Techcrunch article , MOOCs like Udacity and Coursera weren’t working out for AirBnB so now it is “running its own internal university to teach data science.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 8, 2016

” “ Coursera Monthly Subscriptions Channel Lynda and Pluralsight ,” says EduKwest’s Kirsten Winkler. It’s apparently teaching empathy with five-minute animated videos. Via NPR : “Video Calls Replace In-Person Visits In Some Jails.” Good luck with that. ” asks Edsurge.

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