Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2018

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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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2020

Over the years, GSV has invested in the likes of Facebook, Spotify and Twitter alongside education companies including Chegg and Coursera. Moe was intrigued when the longtime president of Belhaven University, Roger Parrott, pitched him the idea for an entrepreneurship MBA last year.

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EdTechSandyK

JULY 3, 2014

Image Used With Permission Under a Creative Commons License Late last week I was innocently checking my Twitter feed, and I saw an announcement for a MOOC called Foundations of Virtual Instruction. The course is offered through Coursera , a known online learning platform which I have heard and read good things about. Unported License.

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EdTechTeacher

AUGUST 13, 2015

works with YouTube, Vimeo, Coursera, Udacity, Khan Academy, and EdX videos. Most of our EdTechTeacher Instructors are authorized Google Education Trainers, and we invite you to connect with them on Twitter via #ettgoogle or through our Google Apps for Education Resources. . Because VideoNot.es

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Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

This chapter takes us from 2012 through 2013, following the expansion of MOOCs across American research-1 institutions and the breakout of Coursera, edX, and Udacity. Twitter’s also a fine place to chat (I’m @BryanAlexander ). .” Here DeMillo carries on his account of the MOOC story which he launched in chapter 1.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2017

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.

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EdTechSandyK

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

References and Resources Facebook: LU Social Media for Communication MOOC openeducation.blackboard.com: Search for Social Media Communications Tools for Educators MY THOUGHT : K-12 could really benefit from all the MOOCs out there in Coursera, edX, Canvas, etc, by allowing teachers to gain PD credit for completing them! Unported License.

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EdTechSandyK

MARCH 6, 2017

Interesting (to me, Sandy) that some digital learning groups/departments were created in the wake of Coursera. Bederson: Inspires & supports effective teaching, equitable teaching, efficient teaching, and engaging teaching. Applies to U. Maryland and U Penn. Pros & Cons of Organizational Structure Lead with pedagogy first.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Beyond coursework, students swim in a flux of data, buffeted by phone calls, text messages, Facebook updates, Twitter tweets, news crawls, and other sources. Another is the rise of the MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) or online instructional platforms like edX, Coursera, or Udacity.

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Bryan Alexander

MAY 27, 2016

Some discussion on Twitter occurred as well, along with several good questions, which you can examine in this Storify. After discussion via chat and Twitter we settled on professional development. In this post I’ll share my notes along with the complete video recording. Curt responded by seeing infrastructure as complex.

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EdTechSandyK

APRIL 8, 2014

Coursera is another option for higher ed MOOCS. District #5 : Kindergarten teachers started class Twitter accounts! Here is Mrs. Cook''s Twitter. November suggests you can follow someone on Twitter via text messaging instead of having to set up a Twitter account. Click here to see all of them.)

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Mark Smithers

DECEMBER 2, 2013

I’m not attending ASCILITE 2013 but I am following the Twitter stream closely and occasionally comment into the stream. No doubt much of Kennedy’s thinking is informed by the University of Melbourne’s Coursera MOOCs that have very large numbers of students and, consequently, very little teacher to student interaction.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 30, 2016

and Coursera’s Mission (yes, capitalized there). Twitter’s also a fine place to chat (I’m @BryanAlexander ). Simply snag a copy of the book from your library or MIT Press or the local bookshop or Amazon (etc.), and get reading. I’ve set up a tag for all posts: demillorevolution.

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Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

We see Coursera when it was just “DKandme” This chapter takes us through the critical work of selected people, including Sebastian Thrun, Daphne Koller, Andrew Ng, George Siemens, Stephen Downes, Charles Vest, Anant Agarwal, and John Hennessy. Twitter’s also a fine place to chat (I’m @BryanAlexander ).

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Mark Smithers

DECEMBER 2, 2013

I’m not attending ASCILITE 2013 but I am following the Twitter stream closely and occasionally comment into the stream. No doubt much of Kennedy’s thinking is informed by the University of Melbourne’s Coursera MOOCs that have very large numbers of students and, consequently, very little teacher to student interaction.

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Hack Education

JULY 7, 2017

” (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?).

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

. “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.

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Learning with 'e's

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

Even professional teacher development through social media is gaining great impetus, evidenced by the large numbers of participants on education Twitter chats such as #edchat, #AussieEd and #ukedchat as well as global online events such as the Reform Symposium.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Our Twitter hashtag is #stemx13, and we have some resources for publicizing at [link]. MP3 and MP4 versions will be available as well as the full Blackboard Collaborate recordings, although they take some days to process. Spreading the word : this a free event, so be sure to tell others! See you online!

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 15, 2014

.’ A prime example of this work from 2014 are the texts, lesson plans, and pedagogy shared by educators on Twitter through #FergusonSyllabus.” ” Robert Bajor. Project Manager. Educator Micro-credentials. "With " Jennifer Kabaker.

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Hack Education

JUNE 17, 2016

Headline changed from “ Coursera ’s Update Will Eliminate Hundreds of Courses” to “Coursera’s Update Will Migrate Hundreds of Courses to a New Platform.” ” Coursera, initially only emailing former students about their old course work, decided finally to blog about its platform change.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 4, 2015

But fundamentally, using a frame work ( this one, for example ), they could then use YouTube channels & iTunesU to access compelling content, WordPress to reflect on their ideas and progress, and twitter to publicize their thinking. Geddit , twitter backchannel discussion, Nearpod , Classroom Response Systems (clickers).

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Hack Education

AUGUST 19, 2016

Coursera ’s Daphne Koller announced in a blog post that she’s leaving the MOOC company she co-founded to work at a Alphabet (a.k.a. Coursera’s other founder, Andrew Ng, left the startup several years ago to join the Chinese search engine Baidu. million people since 2003.” Google) biotech company, Calico.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 25, 2019

We invested in Twitter when it was private; in Dropbox, Spotify, Lyft, you know, all-important companies that are in the education-talent space. Coursera’s six years old and has 40 million students on its platform. We invested in Facebook when it was private. Editor’s note: GSV Capital was also an early investor in EdSurge.)

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Learning with 'e's

APRIL 16, 2015

You can see it for yourself at Twitter hashtag #ds106. I am not a fan of the MOOC as they''re sold by Coursera, Udacity, and the like. There are too many people to list in terms of who is involved, but the open, online portion of ds106 that went live in Spring 2011 was architected by Martha Burtis , Tom Woodward , and Alan Levine.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

” The technology revolution has delivered Google searches, Facebook friends, iPhone apps, Twitter rants and shopping for almost anything on Amazon, all in the past decade and a half. ” MOOC startups like Udacity and Coursera have also rebranded to target this particular post-secondary technical training market.

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Graphite Blog

JANUARY 10, 2020

Making Sense of the News: News Literacy Lessons for Digital Citizens (by the University of Hong Kong and Stony Brook University): A six-week, distance learning course hosted on Coursera. Disinformation, "Fake News," and Influence Campaigns on Twitter. Media Manipulation and Disinformation Online.

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Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2017

Travis Kalanick is just one of many tech CEOs who have praised the work of objectivist “philosopher” and “novelist” Ayn Rand, once changing the background of his Twitter profile to the cover of her book The Fountainhead. It just hooked them all up on Twitter.). Computers didn’t cause neoliberalism.

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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. ” That’d be Glenn Reynolds , @instapundit , who also briefly had his Twitter account suspended. ” Time to buy more TV ads, Khan Academy and Coursera!

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Hack Education

AUGUST 31, 2018

Via the Coursera blog : “Announcing the Global MBA from Macquarie University.” There’s a lot to think about here, as Natasha Singer rightly pointed out on Twitter , as this might related to Big Ed-Tech. ACICS oversees accreditation for many for-profit colleges and universities. SDG Academy has joined edX.

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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. ” Via the ACLU : “ Facebook , Instagram , and Twitter Provided Data Access for a Surveillance Product Marketed to Target Activists of Color.” ” More via The NYT.

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

” (Probably worth checking out Sara Goldrick-Rab’s comments on Twitter about this one.). ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Big HR news about Coursera in the HR section below. Coursera has a new CEO: Jeff Maggioncalda. Athletics director, head coach ordered to each pay $100,000.”

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Hack Education

JANUARY 19, 2018

Via Techcrunch : “ Google and Coursera launch program to train more IT support specialists.” ” More on teen social media usage, this time from Buzzfeed : “‘Tweetdecking’ Is Taking Over Twitter. He was a faculty member at Michigan State. The Business of Job Training. ” asks Edsurge.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

” Via Campus Technology : “ Coursera ’s CEO on the Evolving Meaning of ‘MOOC’ ” There’s more ECOT news – there’s always more ECOT news – in the “state and local politics” section above. Via Class Central : “ Monetizing A MOOC Platform.”

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Hack Education

MARCH 17, 2017

As CNN reporter Andrew Kaczynski noted on Twitter Tuesday, Eck, who is now a special assistant to Secretary DeVos, tweeted last November that Hamill should ‘stick to playing Han Solo’s short little b—-’ after Hamill tweeted criticism of the Trump administration.” ” An Education Dept. Are MOOCs webinars?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

It is the instructional designer and tenured professor’s signal — “to the barricades!” — and everyone snipes at the other side from the Twitter trenches for a week, until there’s an unspoken truce that lasts until the next “ban laptops” op-ed gets published. A “ban laptops” op-ed may be the greatest piece of ed-tech clickbait ever devised.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Coursera co-founder “ Andrew Ng officially launches his $175M AI Fund,” says Techcrunch. ” Historian Angus Johnston posted a series of questions on Twitter about the claims made in the Teaching Tolerance report about what students do and do not know about slavery. It isn’t really a fund per se.

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