Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Diverse by Design: Creating CS Programs for All : When working to diversity computer science programs, strategies often look to improve existing programs rather than designing better programs for all from the get-go. Companies like Microsoft, Facebook and Google are all dipping their toes into virtual and augmented reality. 2:00 p.m.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan called badges a “game-changing strategy.”. 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

MAY 4, 2018

.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “The Department of Education told a federal judge Thursday that it would terminate a January contract award to two debt collection firms as it reassesses its strategy for serving borrowers in default on their federal student loans.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”).

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

Check out our growing list of MOOCs and Courses on the EdSurge Index. As for your social profiles such as Facebook and Instagram, previous wisdom used to to be to hide any trace that a hiring manager could find. Post articles and media on Facebook, Twitter, etc that is useful and interesting to your followers.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2016

When Massive Open Online Courses (or MOOCs) were first introduced, people quickly realized these platforms could help students learn more effectively at their own pace on their own schedule. Formal” education was no longer constrained to traditional classroom hours, if it ever was.

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Hack Education

APRIL 20, 2018

VCs often speak of having an “investment thesis” – a strategy for why they fund certain companies. ” I heard someone from Facebook relay the ol’ “founded in a Harvard dorm room” tale and then contend that “education is at our core.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). It’s baaaaack: “Return of the MOOC ,” The City Journal tells us. There’s some (sorta) MOOC-related news in the venture funding section below. Because MOOCs on an airplane proved to be such an effective mode of instruction.

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Hack Education

APRIL 27, 2018

’” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Reminder: a lot of MOOC news is now job training news, so you’ll find some updates in that section below. Via TNW : “ Facebook trials ‘ High School Networks ’ for Messenger – what could go wrong there?”

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Hack Education

JUNE 22, 2018

.” That’s a school district in Wisconsin , and the learning software in question is the Summit Learning Platform , created by the Summit charter school chain and built by Facebook and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” (So yeah.

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Hack Education

MARCH 9, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Vive la MOOC révolution. ” “Orphan MOOCs and the Digital Dark Ages” by Jeffrey Pomerantz in Hybrid Pedagogy. ” There’s more licensing and certification news in the MOOC section above. Via Edsurge : “?In

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Just a few weeks after Daphne Koller ’s announcement she was leaving the MOOC startup she co-founded, Coursera unveiled “ Coursera for Business ” this week, marking its pivot from “democratizing higher ed” to “ training corporate employees.”

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Facebook Argument : Students consider the relative strength of evidence that two users present in a Facebook exchange. News on Facebook : Students identify the blue checkmark that distinguishes a verified Facebook account from a fake one.

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Assessment Analysis Social Media Libraries 60

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit rejected a nursing student’s claim that his free speech and due process rights were violated when his school punished him for his off-campus Facebook posts. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). In other words, MOOCs are now gym memberships. Go, School Sports Team!

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

” “Make MOOCs great again.” ” Speaking of Peter Thiel, “ Mark Zuckerberg : Facebook fake news didn’t sway election,” USA Today reports from the Techonomy conference. ” “ Facebook ’s ‘Free’ Internet Will Harm Low-Income Consumers,” says Wired.

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Education Common Core Company Facebook 54

Hack Education

APRIL 13, 2018

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before Congress this week about privacy, data, monopoly power, and regulations. And there’s more Facebook-related news in several of the sections below. ” Via The Verge : “ Facebook -backed lawmakers are pushing to gut privacy law.” (National) Education Politics.

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Education Facebook Edmodo OER 44

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Meanwhile, as The New York Times reports : “ Facebook , Under Fire in Russia Inquiry, Posts 79% Rise in Profit.” Via Getting Smart : “ Digital Promise and Facebook Developing New Micro-Credentials Program.” ” Because the way to teach people about Facebook according to Facebook is always more Facebook.

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Education Facebook Company Robotics 48

Hack Education

MAY 18, 2018

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Techcrunch : “ Facebook launches Youth Portal to educate teens on the platform, how their data is being used.” Via The Blade : “School that took ECOT students wants poor scores ignored.” Venture Capital and the Business of Education.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “ Coursera ’s New Strategy Takes Inspiration From Netflix – and LinkedIn.” ” There’s more MOOC-related research in the research section below. ” Yup. An alt-right protester shot an antifa.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

“Hardly Anyone Wants to Take a Liberal Arts MOOC,” Edsurge informed its readers in February. ” The technology revolution has delivered Google searches, Facebook friends, iPhone apps, Twitter rants and shopping for almost anything on Amazon, all in the past decade and a half. and Facebook Inc. and Facebook Inc.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

Via Inside Higher Ed : “2-Pronged Strategy Against ‘ Gainful ’ Rule.” ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “ Andrew Ng , Co-Founder of Coursera , Returns to MOOC Teaching With New AI Course.” ” Via Reuters : “Some U.S.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). MOOC hype deja vu.). Via ProPublica , the first in its “Breaking the Black Box” series: “What Facebook Knows About You.” The University of Newcastle has joined edX. Udacity has launched a VR nanodegree. A Master's Degree for a Mere $7,000.”

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2015

This webinar will cover what to look for in a game, where to get good games for learning, and strategies to integrate games into the system of a classroom. Stay tuned for all events at [link] , which also has Facebook event links for each activity. Register for free at [link]. Register for free today at [link].

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Hack Education

JUNE 23, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via The Post and Courier : “ South Carolina ’s online charter schools: A $350 million investment with disappointing returns.” “Mark Zuckerberg just unveiled Facebook ’s new mission statement,” says The Verge. ” Upgrades and Downgrades.

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Education Kaplan Pearson Elsevier 53

Hack Education

MARCH 3, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Inside Higher Ed on online education at Simmons College. More on MOOC and online education research in the research section below. Via Edsurge : “What Colleges Should Know About A Growing ‘ Talent Strategy ’ Push By Companies.” ” asks NPR.

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Education MOOC Company Pearson 40

Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “Foreign faculty and researchers traveling to Canada to work on projects at public universities and affiliated research institutions will be allowed to stay for up to 120 days without a work permit as part of a new Global Skills Strategy announced Monday by Canada’s government.”

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Education Coursera MOOC Kaplan 44

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” The University of Iceland has joined edX. ” Via ProPublica : “ Facebook (Still) Letting Housing Advertisers Exclude Users by Race.” ” Via EdTech Strategies’ Doug Levin : “The COPPA Rule, FERPA , and the Security of Student Data.”

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Education Khan Academy Company Training 44

Hack Education

JUNE 17, 2016

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). That is, major social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter increasingly made it difficult for ThinkUp to work with their APIs. ” “ Are effective retention strategies dependent upon ed tech? “U.S.,

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Education Coursera Microsoft Company 49

Hack Education

MAY 20, 2016

And The Next Web headline makes for… something: “ Facebook and Google could be allowed to award university degrees.” Via The Verge : “Lawsuit claims Facebook illegally scanned private messages.” ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Upgrades and Downgrades.

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Education Pearson Report Company 46

Educator Innovator

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

” -Elena Aguilar, The Art of Coaching: Effective Strategies for School Transformation. Technology continues to be touted as the savior of humankind (think Sugata Mitra’s hole in a wall) or the downfall of all that is good in the world (think the backlash on MOOCs and Facebook).

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Tom Webster, the VP of strategy at the market research firm Edison Research, argued that the report should be viewed as “an extremely effective piece of content marketing,” pointing to the number of slides that cite data about or by a portfolio company of Meeker’s employer, the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Smith Caulfield.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Can high-school kids check the authenticity of an alarming image posted on Facebook? After all, what shows up in your Twitter or Facebook feed can come from anywhere , and a post-election BuzzFeed analysis suggested the fake stuff spreads faster than real news, thanks to hyper-partisan readers blindly sharing sensational headlines.

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