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What if MOOCs Revolutionize Education After All?

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And she makes the case for why free online courses like hers—which are known as Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs—might still lead to a revolution in higher education, even though the hype around them has died down. Some people might even wonder whether MOOCs are even still around since you don’t hear much about these courses today.

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Why Some Investors Say Edtech ‘Doom and Gloom’ is Overhyped

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It showed the industry, Batra says, that consumers have become agreeable to purchasing edtech. Atin Batra: Let me start by saying that the current public market meltdown has affected all industries, including education. Right now, actually, I’m thinking about how we can improve completion rates for MOOCs and online courses.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

The report is always a big deal in technology circles – “a tech industry event in its own right,” as Wired’s Steven Levy put it in 2012 – and many publications and pundits dutifully cover Meeker’s observations, often adding very little analysis of their own. ”) How accurate are her observations?

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3 Big Issues We Heard About at SXSWedu

Wired Campus

The event brings together a mix of participants from different parts of education — teachers, administrators, and publishers in elementary, secondary, and higher education. So the organization administering the credential is creating more-specific versions focused on certain industries. It can make it trite,” he added.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). MOOC hype deja vu.). Via Buzzfeed : “The Industry That Was Crushed By The Obama Administration.” com : “2 students, teacher injured in shooting at Townville Elementary [in South Carolina ]; teen in custody.” It lives.).

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” The app in question is Quizlet , a digital flash card tool that allows students to share their study notes. Because students have never been able to share notes or study together until this moment in history. It has raised $69.7 million total.

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Driverless Ed-Tech: The History of the Future of Automation in Education

Hack Education

“The Year of the MOOC” – I was summoned to Palo Alto, California for a small gathering to discuss the future of teaching, learning, and technology. It’s the model of human learning by someone who claims expertise in machine learning, a field of study which has aspired to model if not surpass the human mind.