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Online Learning's 'Greatest Hits'

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Some of the systems also offer video editing, recording and screen downloading options. The term MOOC was coined by others in 2008.) Now in its seventh year, MOOCs crossed the 100 million learner mark, recently hitting 101 million. In some conventional courses, MOOCs also supplement on-campus curricula.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Shocking, I know, but back-to-school means a lot of seasonal downloads for various education apps. ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. “Children are susceptible to peer pressure from robots,” says The Verge. (So " But hey.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” The details: “The Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) ruling came after a secondary school student in Germany downloaded a photograph of Cordoba from a travel website to illustrate a presentation which was then published on the school website.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”).

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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In 2013, on the heels of “the Year of the MOOC,” Barber released a report titled “An Avalanche is Coming,” calling for the “unbundling” of higher education. MOOCs are, no surprise, their own entry on this long list of awfulness. See David Kernohan’s excellent keynote at OpenEd13 for more.) But the “spying” has continued.

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Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Via the CBC : “ University of Manitoba students receive ‘extortion’ letters over illegal downloads.” The startup, which something something MOOC something something, has raised $9.69 OpenClassrooms has raised $6.74 million total.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via George Veletsianos : “A large-scale study of Twitter Use in MOOCs.” ” Research finds there’s a " global achievement gap in MOOCs. Via Campus Technology : “ Harvard Tailoring the MOOC Experience With Adaptive Learning.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via The GW Hatchet : “Oversight of online learning programs lacking in some schools, report finds.” More MOOC job changes: Techcrunch reports that “ Coursera ’s chief product officer just left to become a VC.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.