EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Famous billionaire college dropouts like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and the late Steve Jobs are prominent examples of successes who never completed undergraduate degrees. Beyond coursework, students swim in a flux of data, buffeted by phone calls, text messages, Facebook updates, Twitter tweets, news crawls, and other sources.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

The lack of social interaction could be one reason behind high dropout rates in online classes. Sure, there are sophisticated online lectures where learners can see one another on screen and break out into small groups to chat via video. MOOCs get social. But these are still the minority online classes. “I’m

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 22, 2014

The K-12 Digital Citizenship and Literacy curriculum includes lesson activities, student videos and interactive assessments.More information and registration information here. Thursday, April 24th at 7am Learning Revolution Keynotes , Don''t miss Pat Farenga on "What is the role of the teacher when children learn on their own?"

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Hack Education

JULY 20, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news in the credential section below. Via Class Central : “Analysis of 450 MOOC -Based Microcredentials Reveals Many Options But Little Consistency.” Data, Surveillance, and Information Security. Because of course.

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Hack Education

APRIL 6, 2018

” Via The New York Times , a profile on the Indiana charter chain Excel Schools : “A Chance for Dropouts, Young and Old, to Go Back to School.” ” Via Edsurge : “Data is Good – But Not Enough – to Improve Education, Says Baltimore City Public Schools CEO.” ” This is my shocked face.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Via ProPublica : “ For-Profit Schools Get State Dollars For Dropouts Who Rarely Drop In.” In the future, you might want to look for most MOOC-related news in the “business of job training” section below. ” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Getting Faculty Members to Embrace Student Data.”

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

Via Inside Higher Ed : “A pending Connecticut law will now mandate that the University of Connecticut and the state’s four other public universities publicly release data on which transfer student credits they accept and which they reject.” The company helps students make videos to market themselves to recruiters.

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