Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

This fall, students taking introductory statistics courses at six colleges will pilot using a tool to complete lab exercises in teams, working in sync with partners who are miles away. MOOCs get social. In summer 2016 Rosé and her team used Bazaar to run a team-based project for a MOOC offered by the Smithsonian Institution.

MOOC 60

MOOC Dropout Exercises OER 60

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

But the trick is to be willing to alter the nuances of the thesis as new data arise. To their credit, both of the leading commercial MOOCs—Udacity and Coursera—have undertaken significant pivots to their initially flawed business models. Time will tell whether these changes were too little, too late.

Education 60

Education Coursera Policies MOOC 60

MindShift

DECEMBER 14, 2015

In our own time, advocates of online learning promise to level the educational playing fields with massive open online courses, MOOCs. The most compelling evidence for the democratizing power of MOOCs comes from a new generation of Horatio Alger stories, where the video lecture replaces the bootblack’s cloth.

Course 28

Course MOOC Digital Divide Online Learning 28

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

” Via NPR : “Data Shows 99% Of Applicants For A Student Loan Forgiveness Program Were Denied.” ” There’s more data on student loans in the research and data section at the bottom. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Gotta keep that MOOC hype alive.

Education 55

Education Chegg MOOC Robotics 55

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

” “Make MOOCs great again.” Politico looks at some of the data for-profit universities are disclosing about how they might fare under the “ gainful employment ” rules. Data, Privacy, and Surveillance. Attorney General Cautions Ed-Tech Companies on Data Privacy.” Is that possible?

Education 54

Education Common Core Company Facebook 54

Hack Education

MARCH 17, 2017

Via Inside Higher Ed : “Student aid advocates and financial aid administrators say shutdown of IRS data retrieval tool has consequences beyond the FAFSA process.” secretary of education, Thursday to get answers on the ‘cause and scope’ of this month’s shutdown of a financial aid data tool by the U.S.

Education 46

Education MOOC Company Report 46

Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 17, 2016

This took 20 slides , touching on two-tier pedagogy, the rise of adjunctification, student poverty, etc: To drive the point home I offered a very slight, very basic futures exercise. Face-to-face instruction was the privilege of the 1%, while the middle class made do with distance learning, and everyone else had versions of MOOCs.

Education 40

Education MOOC Social Media Exercises 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Charter schools, according to a study based on this OCR data, have an even higher rate of suspending Black students and students with disabilities. ” Money and data – they’re intertwined for technology companies – are monopolized in a handful of corporate giants. The majority of teachers are still white.).

Technology 40

Technology Education Pearson Company 40