Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow. ” Those “countless needs and niches” can be met thanks to all the data generation and data collection that happens on them. Platforms are “an extractive apparatus for data.”

Technology 62

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2020

As countless educators around the world have scrambled to figure out how to deliver lessons remotely with whisker-thin budgets, many turned to open education resources (OER). Khosla is the founder and CEO of CK-12 , the 30-person nonprofit that she started in 2007 to deliver free digital books, particularly on math and science topics.

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Doug Levin

JANUARY 15, 2016

The local needs assessment to be conducted by the school district is to be focused on identifying gaps in a school district’s “access to personalized learning experiences supported by technology and professional development for the effective use of data and technology” and is to be updated every three years.

Policies 258

Policies Technology Education OER 258

Marketplace K-12

MAY 16, 2016

Few corporate brand names in education are as recognizable, and as polarizing, as Pearson, the giant education provider whose reach extends to virtual schools, testing, language training and an array of other areas. Fallon described the scope of the company’s reach in different areas of K-12, higher education, and professional training.

Common Core 76

Common Core Pearson Resources Company 76

Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

.” Via Wired UK : “ UK’s Nudge Unit tests machine learning to rate schools and GPs.” Via Education Week : “Two Districts Roll Back Summit Personalized Learning Program.” The Business of Job Training. How Humans Train Its Search AI Is Partly Why.” ” “Nudge Unit.”

OER 44

OER Education Robotics LMS 44

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2018

General Assembly, one of the pioneers of the “bootcamp” model for coding and technical-skills training, found a buyer : the Swiss HR firm Adecco Group. As the market consolidates, “you will see single platforms that can own and manage all the data relevant to teachers and students. The Biggest Deal of the Week….happened

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Kaplan Company EdTech Industry 91

Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

In other Salesforce news, “The University of Texas System teams up with Salesforce to turn its learning platform into a learning relationship management system ,” Inside Higher Ed reports. It includes all the buzzwords : competency-based education, personalized learning, and even blockchain!

Education 63

Education MOOC Report Khan Academy 63

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

” The Business of Job Training. Via The MIT Technology Review : “Finally, a Useful Application for VR: Training Employees.” trains students become venture capitalists.” Via the Google blog : “Investing £1 million in training for computing teachers in the U.K. The business of OER.

Education 44

Education Khan Academy Company Training 44

Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2017

” But yes, please do go on about how personalization will make education “more just.” ” The Business of Job Training. ” “Personalized learning,” I believe Zuck calls this. (It’s Via Wired : “Impatient With Colleges, Employers Design Their Own Courses.”

Education 46

Education Robotics MOOC Facebook 46

Hack Education

JUNE 23, 2017

” Via The New York Times : “ Trump Move on Job Training Brings ‘ Skills Gap ’ Debate to the Fore.” ” More on the business of job training in its own section below. Via The 74 : “ Montessori Was the Original Personalized Learning. ” The Business of Job Training.

Education 53

Education Kaplan Pearson Elsevier 53

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

danah boyd has announced that she’ll be stepping down from running her research organization Data & Society. ” According to WCET , “Developing Effective Courses Using Adaptive Learning Begins with Proper Alignment.” ” Via Getting Smart : “ Virtual and Augmented Reality in Personalized Learning.”

Education 51

Education ProctorU Company Report 51

Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

” Via Inside Higher Ed : “The IRS data retrieval tool that let financial aid applicants automatically import income information into the FAFSA won’t be restored for the current aid cycle, said James Runcie, chief operating officer of the Office of Federal Student Aid, in written testimony to Congress Wednesday.”

Kaplan 46

Kaplan Education Blackboard MOOC 46

Hack Education

JULY 27, 2018

There’s more MOOC news from Edsurge in the “job training” section below. ” Via Cleveland.com : “National e-school figure to test new approach to online learning here in Ohio.” The Business of Job Training. “ Are Universities Training Socially Minded Programmers?

Education 43

Education MOOC E-rate Coursera 43

Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

The US Department of Education released its “ #GoOpenDistrict Launch Packet ,” encouraging schools to use OER. ” She promises that every kid will learn to code (of course) by having the private sector train CS teachers. .” Me, I cannot stop looking at that hand-clapping Vine. ” Rebrand.

MOOC 48

MOOC Education Blackboard OER 48

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.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

MARCH 16, 2018

” There’s some Udacity-related MOOC news in the job training section below. The Business of Job Training. ” Edsurge on the “Five Dangers of Data-Informed Student Nudging.” Via Edsurge : “ VR Could Bring a New Era of Immersive Learning. ” Just five!

Education 46

Education MOOC Company Report 46

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

” Via The New York Times : “ Navy Orders New Training After Deadly Ship Collisions.” ” Apparently watching CD-ROMs isn’t sufficient training for driving Navy destroyers. The Business of Job Training. ” The tech industry is still bullish on the business of tech training nonetheless.

Education 48

Education Facebook Company Robotics 48

Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

The NAACP endorses OER. Senators Introduce Bill to Keep Government Research Data Publicly Available (Preserving Data in Government Act).” Senators Introduce Bill to Keep Government Research Data Publicly Available (Preserving Data in Government Act).” ” The Business of Job Training.

Education 47

Education E-rate Company Kaplan 47

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “With Student Interest Soaring, Berkeley Creates New Data-Sciences Division.” The Business of Job Training (and the Business of Jobs Giving Educational Benefits for Employees). ” Data, Surveillance, and Information Security.

Education 53

Education Company Report IXL Learning 53

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Via Chalkbeat : “Trump’s proposed education budget: more for school choice, less for teacher training.” Via E-Literate : “ Hawai’i Senate Bill: Would mandate OER material for all U Hawai’i system courses.” The Business of Job Training. That’s what I do here. ” Hooray.

Education 49

Education Robotics Company OER 49

Hack Education

OCTOBER 13, 2017

” Via Edsurge : “ Betsy DeVos Visits Bay Area Public School for a Lesson in Personalized Learning.” The Business of Job Training. Via The New York Times : “ Google Unveils Job Training Initiative With $1 Billion Pledge.” ” Roy Moore has just been elected Alabama ’s new Senator.

MOOC 43

MOOC Education Kaplan Company 43

Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

Department of State and massive open online course provider Coursera are partnering to launch Coursera for Refugees , a program to offer career training to displaced people around the world. “Can Venture Capital Put Personalized Learning Within Reach of All Students?” Learn-to-code startup Piper has raised $2.1

Coursera 60

Coursera Education E-rate Company 60

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. The Business of Job Training.

Education 47

Education OER Pearson Report 47

Hack Education

MARCH 9, 2018

” “One Standardized Tests Provider Looks to Gaming and Personalized Learning to Innovate Exams” – Edsurge on ETS. ” The Business of Job Training. Edsurge on the business of OER. Data, Surveillance, and Information Security. Memos from HR. ” Conferences and Events. Look to Japan.”

Education 47

Education Kaplan Coursera MOOC 47

Hack Education

JULY 21, 2017

” Via Education Week : “For Principals, Student Sexting a Speeding ‘Freight Train,’ Full of Peril.” ” “ Personalized learning ” equals cutting the teacher workforce in Oklahoma. ” The Business of Job Training. “ Schools collect more data , but how is it used?”

Education 46

Education LMS Robotics E-rate 46

Hack Education

MAY 26, 2017

And more on data and research on student loan debt in the research section below. ” The Business of Job Training. A report from VC firm GSV Acceleration : “It’s a Breakout: Capital Flows In the Learning and Talent Technology Market.” ” (Note what happens to the data.).

Education 46

Education Data Report Software 46

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

. “The Education Department is unlikely to be eliminated, particularly by a bill that declines to specify who or what would take over its $68 billion annual budget and the functions of data collection, oversight, civil rights enforcement and student aid, among others.” The Business of Job Training. CodeMonkey has raised $1.5

Education 40

Education MOOC E-rate Robotics 40

Hack Education

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. Via Education Week : “ Mississippi Attorney General Sues Google Over Student-Data Privacy.”

Education 40

Education Coursera Robotics E-rate 40