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What Could Web3 Mean for Education?

Edsurge

It’s one example of what proposals for a coming “metaverse” could mean for teachers and students. The phrase that originated in a science-fiction novel refers to an immersive virtual reality that blurs the boundaries between digital and physical spaces. (And That includes higher education. and between the U.S. and other nations.

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Picking on great education and technology myths

Bryan Alexander

I picked the topic as a clear example of a myth that soared high and crashed hard. 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.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

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). Certainly “free” works well for cash-strapped schools. Um, they do.)

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

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.

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Education Technology's Inequalities

Hack Education

Black preschool children, for example, are 3.6 Take, for example, ProPublica ’s article on Donald Trump’s son-in-law and “consigliere”: “ The Story Behind Jared Kushner’s Curious Acceptance into Harvard.”). times more likely to be suspended than white preschool children.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). MOOCs for credit ! FutureLearn announced that two UK universities – the University of Leeds and the Open University – will offer MOOCs that will be accepted for college credit. For more on MOOCs for credit, see the “MOOCs” section above.