Hack Education

DECEMBER 6, 2016

The Rebranding of MOOCs. Remember 2012 , “ The Year of the MOOC? Remember in 2012 when the media wrote about MOOCs with such frenzy, parroting all these marketing claims and more and predicting that MOOCs were poised to “ end the era of expensive higher education ”? MOOCs are not particularly "open."

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. For their part, critics of laptop bans claimed the studies the op-eds frequently cite were flawed, reductive, and out-of-date. They’re distracting others.

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Hack Education

JULY 27, 2018

Via Wired : “Congress Has a $65 Million Proposal to Study Tech’s Effect on Kids.” ” (Juul is an e-cigarette that markets its product to teens and peddles social emotional learning content.). Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Among the speakers: Betsy DeVos and Peter Thiel.

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 5, 2016

study, Going Digital , on faculty attitudes towards digital materials. Community colleges are much more interested in OER than other sectors. Possiblye the FCC will extend E-rate funding to poorer areas. For example, MOOCs are still weak on completion and learning, but evolving.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 18, 2017

The Department of Justice , 21 states, and the District of Columbia have reached a $864 million settlement with Moody’s Investors Service over the company’s role in faulty credit ratings that led to the financial crisis of 2008. Via the IEEE Spectrum : “How the Pioneers of the MOOC Got It Wrong.”

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Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

” “Schools, Libraries Miss Out on Millions in E-Rate Funds,” according to EdTech Magazine – some $245 million for the 2014 fiscal year. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). From Course Report : “the 2016 Coding Bootcamp Market Size Study.” ” Amazingly dumb.

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Hack Education

JUNE 8, 2018

Via The Atlantic : “ DeVos Says There’s One Thing Her School-Safety Commission Won’t Be Studying: Guns.” Via E&E News : “ Cabinet heads told to praise Paris exit. ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). National) Education Politics. ” Hi schools.

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