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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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I was inspired, I think, to select that topic because talk of “platforms” was incredibly popular in Silicon Valley – it had been for a while – as companies strove to become “the next Facebook.” ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. Think Facebook.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” (So instead of “testing” we’ll have ubiquitous, non-stop surveillance / assessment via “personalized learning.” Via The New York Times : “‘I Don’t Really Want to Work for Facebook.’

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Via The Verge : “A Facebook patent would use your family photos to target ads.” .” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. There’s more news about ACICS, the accreditor for most for-profit universities, in the accreditation section below.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning. In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. There was a regularly updated Facebook page, a Twitter account, as well as a LinkedIn profile for its supposed president.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via Edsurge : “The Makings (and Misgivings) of a Statewide Effort to Personalize Learning in Massachusetts.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via The GW Hatchet : “Oversight of online learning programs lacking in some schools, report finds.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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.” Via Edsurge : “ Betsy DeVos Visits Bay Area Public School for a Lesson in Personalized Learning.” ” IPEDS is the government’s database tracking post-secondary education statistics, including enrollments and graduations. .” “MOOCs Are ”Dead.“

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