Hack Education

APRIL 13, 2018

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before Congress this week about privacy, data, monopoly power, and regulations. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). The State Policy Network has a plan to counter union activism with anti-union PR. National) Education Politics. ” asks Edsurge.

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DECEMBER 22, 2017

. “A new Education Department policy will dramatically limit the amount of student loan relief some students get after being misled by their schools.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). A call to rebrand MOOCs , from Edsurge. ” More via Inside Higher Ed. More via Edsurge. (I

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NOVEMBER 24, 2017

“Will Reversal of FCC’s ‘Net Neutrality’ Policy Help or Hurt Schools?” Schools should consider the ways in which their own social media surveillance re-inscribes these sorts of violent, nationalist policies. Department of Labor as a senior policy adviser.” The business of OER.

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OCTOBER 12, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Via Edsurge : “5 Ways MOOC -Based Degrees Are Different From Other Online Degrees.” ” Not listed: other online degrees simply aren’t hyped the way MOOCs are. “ Does OER Actually Improve Learning? of Washington.”

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AUGUST 31, 2018

.” Via The Atlantic : “A Step-by-Step Guide to Trump’s New College Sexual Assault Policy.” Via Chalkbeat : “How Trump’s tax law may have just gotten in the way of Betsy DeVos ’ favorite policy.” His wife is also the founder of the OER organization CK12. Because “open.”).

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ California Should Watch Arkansas Process for Creating New Online Institution,” says Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill. It points to policies the university can pro-actively ennact, and laws that could have been enforced by university police.”

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JANUARY 18, 2017

She seemed to fail to grasp some of the basics of education policy – the difference between “ proficiency ” and “ growth ,” for example, and the federal rules surrounding disability rights and education. Via the IEEE Spectrum : “How the Pioneers of the MOOC Got It Wrong.” Gotta sell that tech.

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JULY 1, 2016

The US Department of Education released its “ #GoOpenDistrict Launch Packet ,” encouraging schools to use OER. ” Via The 74 : “ Trump Towers Over Education: How His Candidacy Is Already Affecting Federal Policy.” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Rebrand.

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JULY 27, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news from Edsurge in the “job training” section below. There’s more MOOC news from Edsurge in the “job training” section below. “ Was It Ethical for Dropbox to Share Customer Data with Scientists?

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DECEMBER 30, 2019

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security.

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MARCH 16, 2018

Via The New York Times : “ Trump Finds Unlikely Culprit in School Shootings: Obama Discipline Policies.” ” Via The Wall Street Journal : “ Visas Issued to Foreign Students Fall, Partly Due to Trump Immigration Policy.” ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”).

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MAY 20, 2016

Via NPR : “ Wyoming School District Stalls On Transgender Student Policy.” ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” More on employment data in the “research and data” section below. “ OpenStax , Knewton introduce adaptive learning into OER.”

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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.” ” Immigration and Education. ” Fox. ” Go, School Sports Team! .

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APRIL 28, 2017

Via The New York Times : “ Trump Orders Review of Education Policies to Strengthen Local Control.” The NAACP endorses OER. Senators Introduce Bill to Keep Government Research Data Publicly Available (Preserving Data in Government Act).” Education Politics. Via Infodocket : “Two U.S.

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OCTOBER 13, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” MOOCs are dead , according to Udacity ’s VP. ” Never one to let a good MOOC story pass them by, Edsurge repeats the story. “MOOCs Are ”Dead.“ “ What’s Next? Uh-oh,” writes John Warner in IHE.

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MAY 27, 2016

Officials from 11 states are suing the Obama Administration over the guidance it recently issued regarding transgender bathroom policies and civil rights law. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). MOOCs for credit ! For more on MOOCs for credit, see the “MOOCs” section above.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Via E-Literate : “ Hawai’i Senate Bill: Would mandate OER material for all U Hawai’i system courses.” ” And later in the week, an update : “Hawai’i Senate OER Bill Update: Amended language saves the day.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”).

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JULY 29, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Data, Privacy, and Surveillance. “The data we don’t store cannot be stolen from us,” founder Hadi Partovi writes in a blog post. . “The data we don’t store cannot be stolen from us,” founder Hadi Partovi writes in a blog post.

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MARCH 9, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Vive la MOOC révolution. ” “Orphan MOOCs and the Digital Dark Ages” by Jeffrey Pomerantz in Hybrid Pedagogy. ” There’s more licensing and certification news in the MOOC section above. Edsurge on the business of OER.

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JUNE 8, 2018

Via Inside Higher Ed : “The number of career colleges and the number of credentials they award have dropped by roughly 20 percent in the last four years, new data from the U.S. ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Data, Surveillance, and Information Security. Education Department show.”

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JUNE 24, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). More, via Inside Higher Ed , on various colleges’ OER initiatives. Educator’s Assessment Data Management System ( EADMS ) is merging with IO Education. Data, Privacy, and Surveillance. “Is Estonia the new Finland ?” ” Amazingly dumb.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2017

“15 Ways Taylor Swift ’s Lyrics Solve Education Policy ’s Most Pressing Issues” is, no doubt, the most godawful white lady thing I’ve seen this week in education news. ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “Recently released federal data show that 17 percent of federal student debt holders are over the age of 50.

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DECEMBER 6, 2016

The Rebranding of MOOCs. Remember 2012 , “ The Year of the MOOC? Remember in 2012 when the media wrote about MOOCs with such frenzy, parroting all these marketing claims and more and predicting that MOOCs were poised to “ end the era of expensive higher education ”? MOOCs are not particularly "open."

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JULY 21, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” The LA Times asks , “ In this digital self-help age, just how effective are MasterClass ’s A-list celebrity workshops?” His wife is the co-founder of OER organization CK–12.). “ Schools collect more data , but how is it used?”

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JANUARY 26, 2017

.” I tweeted that the DACA database is one of the most important issues in ed-tech right now, and if you’re an ed-tech entrepreneur who says “nobody in ed-tech tracks immigration data,” you need to GTFO. ” “Policy-based Privacy is Over,” says Eric Hellman. ” Education in the Courts.

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MAY 26, 2017

” And here’s what DeVos said when she spoke to the American Federation for Children’s National Policy Summit. And more on data and research on student loan debt in the research section below. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Slate : “ The New Diploma Mills.”

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