Bryan Alexander

APRIL 12, 2016

Twitter activity during the hour was also very energetic, so I Storified it. He cited Jon Udell ‘s vision of Wikipedia as a place where knowledge is socially constructed. Data and ownership of one’s web space, being wary of silos, should be discussed now. On March 30 we had Jim Groom as our Future Trends Forum guest.

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 12, 2016

Twitter activity during the hour was also very energetic, so I Storified it. He cited Jon Udell ‘s vision of Wikipedia as a place where knowledge is socially constructed. Data and ownership of one’s web space, being wary of silos, should be discussed now. On March 30 we had Jim Groom as our Future Trends Forum guest.

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Educator Innovator

OCTOBER 7, 2015

We would argue our students read and write more now than they ever have before—between texting, social media, gaming, and everything else they do in their digitally fueled, online lives. Consider posting podcasts on websites, blogs, or social media so students can share their work with others around the world!

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

At the time, I wrote about the importance of APIs; the issues surrounding data security and privacy; the appeal of platforms for users and businesses; and the education and tech companies who were well-positioned (or at least wanting) to become education platforms. ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 16, 2013

There are eight conference strands covering a wide variety of timely topics, such as MOOCs, e-books, maker spaces, mobile services, embedded librarians, green libraries, doctoral student research, library and information center "tours," and more! We have 146 accepted conference sessions and ten keynote addresses.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Claims on Twitter : Students read a tweet and explain why it might or might not be a useful source of information. Claims on Social Media : Students consider the sources of a tweet and the information contained in it in order to describe what makes it both a useful and not useful source of information.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Data Insecurity. Beyond the MOOC. The Compulsion for Data. Social Media, Campus Activism, and Free Speech. School and “Skills” MOOCS, Outsourcing, and Online Education. Data and Privacy. Social Justice. MOOCs and Anti-MOOCs. Data vs Privacy. Personalization.

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Technology MOOC Trends Khan Academy 58

Hack Education

AUGUST 19, 2016

One of the big stories this week: the US Department of Education ’s announcement about which “non-traditional providers” ( MOOCs , coding bootcamps ) will be eligible for financial aid as part of its EQUIP experiment. ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Education Politics. Innovation!

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

. “ ICE officials have invited tech companies, including Microsoft , to develop algorithms that will track visa holders’ social media activity ,” ProPublica reports. Schools should consider the ways in which their own social media surveillance re-inscribes these sorts of violent, nationalist policies.

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Education Khan Academy Company Training 44

Hack Education

JUNE 17, 2016

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Anil Dash and Gina Trapani announced they’re closing down their social media analytics product ThinkUp. That is, major social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter increasingly made it difficult for ThinkUp to work with their APIs.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Funding data about “learn to code” startups can be found at funding.hackeducation.com. “Hardly Anyone Wants to Take a Liberal Arts MOOC,” Edsurge informed its readers in February. ”) As Data & Society wrote in November , Pay attention to online gig work because it is dramatically reshaping our society.

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Technology Education Microsoft Industry 85

Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

The Huffington Post filed Twitter’s response to Ivanka Trump ’s announcement under “comedy.” In the future, you might want to look for most MOOC-related news in the “business of job training” section below. ” Via Motherboard : “Replacing Social Security Numbers Is Harder Than You Think.”

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Hack Education

AUGUST 31, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Really great investigative work on Department of Education data on school shootings by NPR’s Anya Kamenetz, Alexis Arnold, and Emily Cardinali : “The School Shootings That Weren’t.” Thank you, big data, for giving people this insight.

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Education Social Media Company Data 41

Hack Education

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. danah boyd has announced that she’ll be stepping down from running her research organization Data & Society. Apple had a thing.

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Education ProctorU Company Report 51

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Something something Brexit something something MOOCs will save British higher ed. tl;dr: emailing them, holding webinars, using social media. ” That’d be Glenn Reynolds , @instapundit , who also briefly had his Twitter account suspended.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Liberty University students have criticized their school’s president, Jerry Falwell Jr, and his media appearances supporting Trump. According to excerpts of speeches published by Wikileaks – stolen data – Clinton called the Common Core a “political failure” in a speech she gave to Knewton.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2018

Via The Guardian : “ Student Loans Company ‘spied on vulnerable students’ social media’ ” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Data, Surveillance, and Information Security. ” JFC. Sticks With Him.”

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Education Pearson Company Blackboard 43

Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). In related MOOC news, there's more on “ nanodegrees ” in the “credentialing” section below. Data, Privacy, and Surveillance. They also demanded to view their personal data profiles by Sept. charter school.” From the HR Department.

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Education Pearson Report MOOC 52

Hack Education

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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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

JANUARY 19, 2018

.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news in the job training section below. There’s more MOOC news in the job training section below. ” More news about a data breach at a testing company in the infosec section below. Doane University has joined edX.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

A public service announcement from the FBI : “ Education Technologies : Data Collection and Unsecured Systems Could Pose Risks to Students.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Class Central : “ Monetizing A MOOC Platform.” Why Data Walls May Cause More Harm Than Good.”

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Education MOOC Blackboard E-rate 54

Hack Education

DECEMBER 13, 2016

” The University of Northern New Jersey had a website – one with a.edu domain, to boot – as well as several active social media profiles. There was a regularly updated Facebook page, a Twitter account, as well as a LinkedIn profile for its supposed president. ” MOOCs for credit. Or it was.).

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Technology Education Secondary Pearson 40

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

” Via Politico : “ Several Trump appointees shared unflattering views of minorities, women on social media.” Senate bill compels data collection on foreign-born college students.” ” Research finds there’s a " global achievement gap in MOOCs. Data dashboards. " No s**t.

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Hack Education

JUNE 2, 2017

Department of State has received emergency approval from the Office of Management and Budget to collect additional information regarding certain visa applicants ’ travel and employment histories, familial connections, and social media usage in accordance with a notice it posted in the Federal Register May 4.

Education 48

Education MOOC Report Company 48

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Data-Protection Law Looms.” ” Via The New York Times : “ Kremlin Cash Behind Billionaire’s Twitter and Facebook Investments.” ” Via The Guardian : “ Russia funded Facebook and Twitter investments through Kushner associate.” Maybe social media is broken, Cathy O’Neil suggests.

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Education Facebook Company Report 45

Hack Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

” I’ve looked at how for-profit colleges , MOOCs , and learn-to-code companies have tapped into these narratives in order to justify their products and services. Don’t mess with her on Twitter. These have all been separate articles in each series. Watch Tressie McMillan Cottom on The Daily Show. Training Ed-Tech.

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Robotics MOOC Training Industry 59

Hack Education

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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Khan Academy Education Facebook E-rate 45

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

. “Schools across the country are about to be held accountable for student attendance – attaching stakes to a measure that previously had much less significance and increasing the risk that schools will try to manipulate that data,” according to Chalkbeat’s Matt Barnum. ” “Whatever Happened To MOOCs ?”

Education 47

Education OER Pearson Report 47

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

” Palantir is the data analytics company co-founded by Peter Thiel and funded in part by the CIA. Via KPCC : “ LAUSD board: If Trump administration asks for student data , district will resist.” ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” The book was racist.

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Education Company Data Pearson 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 8, 2016

” Online Education and The Once and Future “MOOC” “ Deakin University in Australia will next year offer graduate degrees and certificate programs through FutureLearn , the online learning platform owned by the Open University in the U.K.,” Data, Privacy, and Surveillance. ” Inside Higher Ed reports.

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