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DECEMBER 23, 2019

For the past decade, I've churned out a multi-part series on the dominant trends and narratives. Even if these publications fade away , the breathless stories about the possibilities of brainwave-reading mindfulness headbands and " mind-reading robot tutors in the sky " continue to be told. Udacity got a new CEO. LOL LOL LOL.

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MAY 25, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). MOOCs are back in the headlines again. Via Edsurge : “The Second Wave of MOOC Hype Is Here, and It’s Online Degrees.” ” From the Google blog : “ Google Science Fair 2018 : Resources for educators to get ideas flowing.”

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AUGUST 17, 2018

” Via the AP : “ Mississippi ’s Supreme Court says a state lawsuit against Google alleging violations of student privacy should stay in a northeast Mississippi court.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. " But hey.

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MAY 18, 2018

Via EdScoop : “ Google adds new terms to comply with Connecticut student data privacy laws.” ” “Examining Trends in Graduate Student Debt by Race and Ethnicity” by Seton Hall University professor Robert Kelchen. ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”).

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JUNE 1, 2018

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via The South China Morning Post : “ China ’s schools are quietly using AI to mark students’ essays … but do the robots make the grade?” ” “Where Has Teen Car Culture Gone?”

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NOVEMBER 24, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” The University of Iceland has joined edX. Via the Google blog : “Investing £1 million in training for computing teachers in the U.K. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. Will they make it happen? .”

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AUGUST 11, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “ Andrew Ng , Co-Founder of Coursera , Returns to MOOC Teaching With New AI Course.” ” The Google Memo. Jen Howard on “What Happened to Google’s Effort to Scan Millions of University Library Books ?”

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JUNE 9, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” If you can’t create revenue, raise venture capital. Google has launched a curriculum called “ Be Internet Awesome ” to encourage digital safety and citizenship. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. The MOOC provider has now raised $210 million total.

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JUNE 17, 2016

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Via the Hechinger Report : “Can a wall-climbing robot teach your kid to code?” Investors in this round were the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, CRE Venture Capital, Learn Capital, Omidyar Network, Google Ventures, and Spark Capital.

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MARCH 30, 2017

“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. Perhaps with this data, the MOOC providers can build a map of professional if not cognitive pathways. Let me begin with a story. Efficiency.

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JULY 20, 2018

Fines Google $5.1 Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news in the credential section below. Via Class Central : “Analysis of 450 MOOC -Based Microcredentials Reveals Many Options But Little Consistency.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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DECEMBER 11, 2016

.” Note the significant difference in language in this headline from The Verge , for example – “ Harvard’s Root robot teaches kids how to code ” – and the way in which Seymour would describe the LOGO Turtle – that students would using programming to teach the robot. Google’s Alphabet Inc.

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JANUARY 26, 2018

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Class Central : “A Product at Every Price: A Review of MOOC Stats and Trends in 2017.” ” There’s more MOOC news in the certification section below. I’m also putting some MOOC news in the job training section.

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OCTOBER 6, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Politico : Western Governors University , “the nation’s leading provider of competency-based educatio n – which the Education Department’s independent watchdog last month said violated federal student aid rules – is expanding into North Carolina.”

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FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Class Central : “ TU Delft Students Can Earn Credit For MOOCs From Other Universities.” Via The New York Times : “Early Facebook and Google Employees Form Coalition to Fight What They Built.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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APRIL 6, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). “The MOOC is not dead, but maybe it should be,” says Rolin Moe. ” Via the Google blog : “Rolling Study Halls: turning bus time into learning time.” ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” More from Edsurge.

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JUNE 23, 2017

Google ’s chairman Eric Schmidt praises Trump. 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.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. “technologizing” the government.

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AUGUST 10, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Google has updated its pseudo-LMS, Classroom. Google blogs ; tech publications help market the news. More Google PR, this time from The Verge : “ Google is adding ARCore support to the Chromebook Tab 10 with Classroom updates.”

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DECEMBER 1, 2016

The test in question: The Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study ( TIMSS ) which is administered to students around the world. ’” Online Education, Beyond “MOOCs” Via Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill : “The Remarkable Transformation at UF Online.” Meanwhile on Campus.

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MAY 5, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Brown University joins edX. “ Y Combinator MOOC for Tech Startups Attracts Thousands of Views,” says Campus Technology. Not sure why this is called a MOOC. CNN tries to explain “Why Google , Apple and Microsoft are battling for education.”

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AUGUST 4, 2018

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Oooh, I am sensing a trend here. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Class Central writes that “ Y Combinator’s Startup School MOOC To Give Out $10,000 to 100 Companies.” ” JFC.

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JULY 28, 2017

I’m also curious how this news – again, I’m not sure two closures are really a “trend” – will affect student loan startups. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Lots of MOOC PR appeared in the news this week. And more on MOOCs in the credentialing section below as well.

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JANUARY 19, 2018

.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news in the job training section below. Via Techcrunch : “ Google and Coursera launch program to train more IT support specialists.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Doane University has joined edX.

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JULY 1, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). “ Robots won’t replace teachers because they can’t inspire us.” Elsewhere in MOOC research… From Campus Technology : “Grouping MOOC Students by Communication Mode Doesn’t Help Completion.” MOOCs losing their mojo?

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DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. In 2013, on the heels of “the Year of the MOOC,” Barber released a report titled “An Avalanche is Coming,” calling for the “unbundling” of higher education. Google Reader.

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JUNE 29, 2018

“ Google , Facebook , Verizon , Comcast and AT&T each contributed $200,000 to a committee opposing the proposed ballot measure, and lobbyists had estimated that businesses would spend $100 million to campaign against it before the November election.” ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”).

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MAY 13, 2016

” The Whiteboard Advisors’ latest “Education Insider” report ( PDF ) is on assessment trends, higher education, and the presidential campaigns. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Speaking of loans, Google will ban ads for payday loans. From the HR Department.

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MARCH 16, 2018

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill : “If At First You Don’t Succeed, Try To Be An OPM : Conversion of for-profits and MOOCs.” ” There’s some Udacity-related MOOC news in the job training section below. ” asks CoSN.

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MAY 19, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “Why Haven’t MOOCs Eliminated Any Professors?” Via The New York Times : “How Google Took Over the Classroom.” Via Campus Technology : “6 VR Trends to Watch in Education.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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APRIL 27, 2018

Via Chalkbeat : “Robotics is bringing Betsy DeVos to Detroit for the first time as education secretary.” ’” 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. “Try Google.”

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DECEMBER 8, 2017

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Curious if students are allowed to use any tech products made by Oracle’s arch-nemesis, Google. “ Should Children Form Emotional Bonds With Robots? Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Kiwicampus : a robot delivery service on campus.

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JULY 14, 2017

” More on the Afghan robotics team in the contest section below. for Robotics Contest.” ” Google profiles Niji Collins , a winner in the latest Google Code-In contest. Sensing a trend here? Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Google responds. Education in the Courts.

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DECEMBER 17, 2017

.” I’ve looked at how for-profit colleges , MOOCs , and learn-to-code companies have tapped into these narratives in order to justify their products and services. ” That’s because the stories told this year to keep us hustling and to keep up imagining a certain kind of future are almost all about robots.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “Should Online Courses Go Through ‘Beta Testing’?” NPR on MOOC Micromasters. ” Via Geekwire : “ Google quietly donates $10M to University of Washington in another major computer science gift.” ” asks Edsurge.

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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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JANUARY 12, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” edX is offering an online master’s degree with Georgia Tech : an OMS (online master’s in science) in Analytics. The Economist on “ The Return of the MOOC.” Fascinating how affluent parents in the shadow of Google and Apple HQs respond to ed-tech, no?).

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DECEMBER 1, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” These headlines just kill me. ” More MOOC data in the “research” section below. ” According to Edsurge , Knewton is now a courseware company and not a “robot tutor in the sky.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Predictions!

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