Hack Education

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. “Robots are coming for your job.”

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JULY 20, 2018

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. Because of course.

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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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OCTOBER 27, 2017

” Challenging forced arbitration clauses has been one way the CFPB has taken on the student loan industry. Via Buzzfeed : “A Close Ally Of Mike Pence Is Helping The Shady Student Debt Relief Industry.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” MOOCs. ” (That’s Marty Obst.).

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

” Ref Rodriguez, like most of the current members of the LAUSD school board, has strong financial backing from the charter school industry. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ California Should Watch Arkansas Process for Creating New Online Institution,” says Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill.

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Hack Education

APRIL 6, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). “The MOOC is not dead, but maybe it should be,” says Rolin Moe. ” Well, I guess I need to keep an eye on how the tutoring industry rebrands itself what with all the investment dollars it’s receiving. ” “Homework therapist.”

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MAY 5, 2017

Not ed-tech per se (unless you recognize that “personalized learning” is greyballing), but according to The New York Times , “ Uber Faces Federal Inquiry Over Use of Greyball Tool to Evade Authorities.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Brown University joins edX.

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MAY 4, 2018

Via Chalkbeat : “ Betsy DeVos ’s first Detroit visit featured Girl Scouts, robots, and talk of beluga whales.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). So much MOOC news! (Or “ MOOCs Are Global. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” asks Edsurge.

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JULY 28, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Lots of MOOC PR appeared in the news this week. ” “What if MOOCs Revolutionize Education After All?” “Now that MOOCs are mainstream, where does online learning go next?” “ Can personalized learning prevail? .”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. 3D printing, The Economist pronounced in 2012 , was poised to bring about the third industrial revolution. (I

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Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). From the edX blog : “How to be a Better Learner: Determine Your Learning Style.” “ Robots won’t replace teachers because they can’t inspire us.” ” Try learning styles, maybe. MOOCs losing their mojo?

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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. Lots of goings-on this week in the loan industry. Via Techcrunch : “ Lilwil ’s personalized learning engine teaches teachers how to teach.”

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JUNE 29, 2018

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Inside Higher Ed : “Lessons Learned From a Consortium That Fizzled.” ” A MOOC consortium , that is, with member institutions Davidson College , Colgate University , Hamilton College , and Wellesley College.

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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.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2018

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Over time, students will be able to customize their learning experiences using Amazon products such as Kindle and Echo’s Alexa assistant. Via Techcrunch : “ LinkedIn Learning now includes 3rd party content and Q&A interactive features.”

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Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

Edsurge’s Jeff Young and Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill both asked industry analyst Trace Urdan for his take. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Online education pioneer Tony Bates asks “ What is online learning ?” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. a month.). Move along.

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MARCH 24, 2017

Via The USA Today : “Kids on winning robotics team told, ‘Go back to Mexico’ ” The kids were from Pleasant Run Elementary School in Indianapolis. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ Coursera Removes Biometric Identity Verification Using Keystroke Matching,” Class Central reports.

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JULY 14, 2017

” Via ProPublica : “ Trump Has Secretive Teams to Roll Back Regulations , Led by Hires With Deep Industry Ties.” What The Oil Industry Teaches Oklahoma Students.” ” Via The New York Times : “In Blow to Tech Industry, Trump Shelves Start-Up Immigrant Rule.” for Robotics Contest.”

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DECEMBER 8, 2017

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). “ Should Children Form Emotional Bonds With Robots? So much industry-driven fun fun fun. More details about more industry money for Code.org in the venture philanthropy section below. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. “Huh?”

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NOVEMBER 3, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Chalkbeat investigates the Indiana Virtual School : “As students signed up, online school hired barely any teachers – but founder’s company charged it millions.” ” The tech industry is still bullish on the business of tech training nonetheless.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Via Edsurge : “ ​Rhode Island ’s Plans to Become a ‘Lab State’ for Personalized Learning.” ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via the Iowa City Press-Citizen : “ Iowa families foregoing classroom for virtual school.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via George Veletsianos : “A large-scale study of Twitter Use in MOOCs.” ” Research finds there’s a " global achievement gap in MOOCs. Via Campus Technology : “ Harvard Tailoring the MOOC Experience With Adaptive Learning.”

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FEBRUARY 16, 2018

” There’s more on Department of Education efforts to help the for-profit higher ed industry in the for-profit higher ed section below. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Via Techcrunch : “Lyft partners with Black Girls Code to help develop a more diverse tech industry.”

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Also by me : “The Ivanka Trump Ed-Tech Industry Network.” ” Via Edsurge : “ Betsy DeVos Visits Bay Area Public School for a Lesson in Personalized Learning.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” MOOCs are dead , according to Udacity ’s VP.

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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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FEBRUARY 23, 2018

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). I’ve got all the “learn-to-code” news in the job training section, because let’s be honest… Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. .” Of course. Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ Ashford U.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2017

million gift from the Charles Koch Foundation and Koch Industries , a well-known opponent of government spending on things like public education (among other things). The Economist on “ The Return of the MOOC.” ” “ Harvard/MIT Report Analyzes 4 Years of MOOC Data ,” Campus Technology reports.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “How Much Hollywood Glitz Should Colleges Use in Their Online Courses ?” One tech industry CEO’s vision of revolutionizing schools withers, and another is there to take its place. Among the articles , “ The Case(s) Against Personalized Learning.”

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Hack Education

JUNE 22, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). To borrow from Jello Biaffra, “MOOCs aren’t dead, they just deserve to die.” ” From Edsurge : “How Blockbuster MOOCs Could Shape the Future of Teaching.” ” There’s more MOOC-related news in the nanodegree section below.

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AUGUST 4, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “As In-Person Bootcamps Falter, Codecademy Introduces Paid Online Options.” Pretty sure this is the best MOOC story of the week: “ Russian Underground Launches Online Courses in Card Fraud ,” Infosecurity Group reports. .”

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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. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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Hack Education

APRIL 20, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” From the ASU website : “Panelists discuss future of personalized learning.” ” Via EdScoop : “Edtech and industry leaders say they’re stuck if they can’t scale.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

” From the Bloomberg Editorial Board : “A Raw Deal From Betsy DeVos ” – “ Rolling back regulations on the for-profit college industry will cause the public pain.” And there’s more on regulating the industry (or ya know, not) in the national politics section above. Via Edsurge : “Help!

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Hack Education

JULY 21, 2017

Via The San Francisco Chronicle : “ Dev Bootcamp couldn’t tough out industry shakeout.” ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” The LA Times asks , “ In this digital self-help age, just how effective are MasterClass ’s A-list celebrity workshops?” Competition.”

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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. “Can robotics teach problem solving to students?”

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