Mark Smithers

MARCH 12, 2013

This morning Richard Grusin posted a series of twenty tweets presenting a highly critical and thought provoking view of MOOCs. MOOCs are the bastard children of 1980s cyber-utopianism and post-1945 economic neoliberalism. MOOCs are a 21st century manifestation of cyberspace’s revolutionary ideology of information freedom.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2017

The venture-backed startup based in Mountain View (near all those online giants like Google and Facebook) has partnered with more than 150 colleges and universities around the world (including the old and famous ones like Princeton and Yale). It has been five year since Coursera launched its first MOOCs. How’s that going?

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Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2017

The fitness coach can’t exercise for you. A fitness coach is a fitness coach because he or she likes to exercise, and that’s why they’re all buff, right? We’ve now been able to put this lie to bed that people can actually shop on Facebook and listen to your lecture and take good notes all simultaneously. These MOOCs are free.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Samantha Adams Becker taught the first online course ever to take place in Facebook. Finally, another science teacher will briefly share exercises in engineering design. She will explore emerging technology uptake—especially digital communication formats—in various education sectors including academic and research libraries.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The exercise was part of “Civic Online Reasoning,” a series of news-literacy lessons being developed by Stanford researchers and piloted by teachers at a few dozen schools. Can high-school kids check the authenticity of an alarming image posted on Facebook? They got duped.”. Or, as one student put it, loudly, “fudge nuggets!”.

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Hack Education

MARCH 17, 2017

Via Reuters : “ Apple , Google , Facebook skip legal challenge to new travel ban.” ” “ NoRedInk Adds New Exercises to Prepare Students for ACT, SAT,” says Edsurge. ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “A Corporate Learning Revolution” – a Coursera webinar.

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