Bryan Alexander
FEBRUARY 26, 2015
Myth 4: MOOCS will transform everything. This elicited the first pushback, as some people wrote in to celebrate their use of MOOCs for personal professional development. One chimed in with admiration for the Modern Poetry MOOC. Actually, profs use them primarily to share documents. The digital divide.
Hack Education
OCTOBER 27, 2017
“The 72 OSERS Documents Rescinded by Betsy deVos ” – by Liz Ditz. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” MOOCs. “Learning Creative Learning: It’s not a MOOC , it’s a community,” says the MIT Media Lab. (National) Education Politics. They’re back?
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Hack Education
DECEMBER 30, 2019
For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” MOOCs are, no surprise, their own entry on this long list of awfulness.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 7, 2018
Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill analyzes a recent interview with Coursera ’s CEO and argues the MOOC provider is “betting on OPM market and shift to low-cost masters degrees.”
Hack Education
FEBRUARY 17, 2017
Via WaPo : “The FCC talks the talk on the digital divide – and then walks in the other direction.” ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “Should Online Courses Go Through ‘Beta Testing’?” NPR on MOOC Micromasters. ” That’s Gail Heriot.
Hack Education
OCTOBER 26, 2018
” Via The Hechinger Report : “Documenting Maine ’s failure to implement proficiency-based education.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news down in the “labor and management” section below. Indiana University has joined edX.
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