TeacherCast
JANUARY 1, 2016
The company has developed a number of sophisticated software programs and mobile apps designed to encourage greater customization in education. These venues range from MOOCs (free massive online open courses) to traditional brick-and-mortar public schools. Possibly that situation will change permanently in 2016.
Hack Education
OCTOBER 27, 2017
Via Techcrunch : “ Holberton gets backing from more industry executives as it looks to scale its software engineering school.” 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.
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Hack Education
DECEMBER 30, 2019
Or the company will have to start charging for the software. The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, Um, they do.)
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.” What could go wrong. ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.
Hack Education
JULY 14, 2017
” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “The University of California, Los Angeles , is planning a major expansion in the online certificate and graduate degree markets that it hopes will reach as many as 15,000 students by early next decade,” Inside Higher Ed reports. .” Upgrades and Downgrades.
Hack Education
JUNE 10, 2016
” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Here’s The Chronicle headline from then : “Professor Leaves a MOOC in Mid-Course in Dispute Over Teaching.”) Good thing I never did anything in those MOOCs, otherwise I'd be losing my work. Remember Richard McKenzie? Oh VR promises.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 20, 2016
In April, journalist Anya Kamenetz looked closely at “ Pearson’s Quest to Cover the Planet in Company-Run Schools ”: "Pearson would like to become education’s first major conglomerate, serving as the largest private provider of standardized tests, software, materials, and now the schools themselves.
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