Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Opinionated Products : There’s a word for the kinds of tools and products—like say, Google search results—which adapt to a user’s behavior: opinionated. Will VR Really Impact Student Outcomes? Companies like Microsoft, Facebook and Google are all dipping their toes into virtual and augmented reality. to 11:00 p.m. 2:00 p.m.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 2, 2016

raised more than $9 million in a recent Series A round , and handheld wireless sensor company PocketLab is now teaming up with Google to bring the pocket-sized lab equipment to the Google Science Journal. The program announced that last year, participants like tutoring app company GotIt! Based in Honolulu, Hawaii, Comprend.io

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) ”) It was certainly the outcome that investors were hoping for Edmodo , which raised $25 million in 2012, boasting that it had 15 million users. Remember Edmodo?

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Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

Some new services and platforms will emerge to cater for different forms of learning, MOOCs will evolve and improve and open badges will be hot. The MOOC backlash. Of course I have to start with MOOCs. The MOOC backlash started in earnest in 2013. MOOC providers will keep on refining them. Introduction.

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 25, 2016

This example surfaces new questions about student data and privacy, such as: are administrators mandatory reporters? She cited the recent Google artificial intelligence success AlphaGo ; I recommended this Wired article. One example: eportfolios dropped in one case because doing them decently was seen as too onerous.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

For example, this story from the School Library Journal : “ Charter Schools , Segregation , and School Library Access.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Via The New York Times : “ Google Pledges $300 Million to Clean Up False News.” “Many are never the same.”

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

ABL pedagogy aims to enrich students’ academic experience and learning outcomes by connecting theory with practice, and concepts with methods, using data and insight they obtain through engagement with the larger world.” Google Apps for Education. Services include Google Drive, Google Docs, Gmail, and more.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2020

Signature examples of this trend include Walmart’s Live Better U program , Starbucks’ College Achievement Plan and Amazon’s Career Choice program. Recently, Coursera announced a modular MOOC-based bachelor’s degree with the University of North Texas, and edX is experimenting with “ MicroBachelors ” programs as pathways to degrees.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

” You’ll often hear its advocates invoke Benjamin Bloom’s 1984 study on “ the 2 Sigma Problem ” and claim that one-on-one tutoring is radically effective at improving student outcomes. ” (Its MOOC competitor edX also announced this year that many of its courses would no longer be free.)

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ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 1, 2019

In order to reduce the amount of new content a teacher needs to make, YouTube videos, MOOC s, multiple choice questions and web-based resources can be combined. For example, simply using a keyboard to type up a document to enhance its presentation may not always be the most effective use of technology. Let’s take an example.

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EdTechTeam

NOVEMBER 4, 2017

For example, on teacher training days “Teacher A” must have a choice to choose an advanced session for English Essay Writing but a beginner session for technology integration. For successful outcomes, plan teacher PD sessions avoiding holidays, weekends, extended school days and reporting/ assessment cycles.

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ProfHacker

JANUARY 19, 2016

For example, this tweet by Jesse Stommel on plagiarism: Plagiarism "jumped the shark" at the point it was monetized. Another example is a discussion of openness in education. Jargon: Someone uses the term MOOC. Most people I communicate with on Twitter are fully aware of what a MOOC is. It could get embarrassing.

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Wired Campus

APRIL 30, 2015

So, for example, a lot of teachers love to use Quizlet, which is a great company — they build these really complicated quizzes, really interesting stuff, and you can just take those and bring them right into the Versal course. Freedman: I love where you started with the criticism of the MOOCs. Freund: It can get quite sophisticated.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2017

Most of them offer some variation of the thesis that improving how “engaged” students are in their coursework and community will boost academic outcomes which will then increase retention. In fact, a freebie option is emerging as some schools are adopting Google Classroom as a lightweight LMS. MOOCs or General Assembly for country X.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2018

Via The Verge : “James Damore sues Google for allegedly discriminating against conservative white men.” ” 69% of Google’s employees are men. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). No Alexa or Google voice assistant. 56% are white. ” Oh look. Or something like that.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Pokémon Go, a free augmented reality game developed by Niantic (a company spun out of Google in 2015), became the most popular mobile game in US history this year. They use cheat sheets and Google Search during exams. This is part eight of my annual review of the year in ed-tech. “ Seen ” cheating.).

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Hack Education

APRIL 3, 2017

And more importantly, to ascertain where some folks – those who issue press releases, for example – want the puck to head. It ignores what happens in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for example: the site of Harvard and MIT. Silicon Valley does include Mountain View, where Google is headquartered.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). Certainly “free” works well for cash-strapped schools.

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Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). In related MOOC news, there's more on “ nanodegrees ” in the “credentialing” section below. ” The story above is just one recent example of technology entrepreneurs making claims that do not “add up.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Throughout the year, the Department of Education also took steps to strengthen the oversight of accreditors, adding requirements regarding data that they had to report to the government and to the public as well as pressuring accreditors to do more to improve “student outcomes” at the schools they monitored. Microcredentials.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Black preschool children, for example, are 3.6 Take, for example, ProPublica ’s article on Donald Trump’s son-in-law and “consigliere”: “ The Story Behind Jared Kushner’s Curious Acceptance into Harvard.”). times more likely to be suspended than white preschool children.

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Hack Education

APRIL 20, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Techcrunch : “ Grasshopper , a learn-to-code app from Google ’s Area 120 incubator, goes live.” ” Via Edsurge : “ Google and Udacity Offering 5,000 Scholarships for Nanodegree Programs.” ” The Business of Job Training.

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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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