Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

The prior year, my former chief Bill Gates headlined ASU GSV and received a standing ovation for championing technology’s power to transform teaching and learning. But as a point of reference: Google did not yet exist. LMS and Digital Learning topped the hype cycle in 2001 (a few years before Blackboard went public).

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ProfHacker

MARCH 25, 2016

I organized this event at the American University in Cairo , as part of my role at the Center for Learning and Teaching. On campus: the event is ending… the learning is just beginning. Some of this focused on learning new tools (many are now big on Twitter; today I am teaching some students about Hypothes.is We had fun!

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MOOC Twitter Online Learning Conference 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 6, 2014

This is a GREAT week for library learning and conversations! Forward this post to friends and colleagues.) Tomorrow, October 7th, our second annual “Connected Librarian Day” preconference kicks off at 3:30pm US-Eastern Daylight Time, led by Britten Follett, Joyce Valenza, Ross Todd, and Shannon Miller.

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Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Online learning, or the teaching formerly knows as “distance learning” Will this keep growing? Skepticism about the quality of online learning could migrate to the general population. And the MOOC numbers look like they’re rising. I’m not referring to the uses of tech in sports, but funding.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

A dean of digital learning at MIT, Krishna Rajagopal, resigned in protest , telling colleagues in an email that he had “serious continuing reservations” about the proposed direction. People know our corporate name because we are a public company, but people don’t associate our brand with the learning. It was a public good.

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Coursera Company Course Online Learning 168

Hack Education

MAY 26, 2016

This keynote was delivered today at the Irish Learning Technology Association's annual conference, EdTech2016, in Dublin. I’m not sure we talk often enough about technology-enhanced learning in these terms – as a political not merely pedagogical practice. The full slidedeck is available here. To devise new rules.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

In 2012, Pearson, Cengage Learning, and Macmillan Higher Education sued Boundless Learning, claiming that the open education textbook startup had “stolen the creative expression of their authors and editors, violating their intellectual-property rights.” Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2017

” Via Edsurge : “The Makings (and Misgivings) of a Statewide Effort to Personalize Learning in Massachusetts.” Anyway, looks like we’re back to referring to SoFi as a “student loan provider” and not some other new-fangled fin-tech darling. Paul School Lunch Debt.” Pay attention.).

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news in the HR section below. Perhaps this should go under the “surveillance” section below, but as the article references gunshot-detection systems, I’m putting it here. The language learning company has raised $12.5

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