Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

As concerns about “fake news” make clear, Silicon Valley’s influence also extends to how we access information and build knowledge; it extends to the stories we hear and share. Beyond the MOOC. Social Media, Campus Activism, and Free Speech. MOOCs and Anti-MOOCs. The Compulsion for Data.

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Technology MOOC Trends Khan Academy 58

Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 27, 2016

Today at 8pm GMT, the second #EDENchat of 2016 will be live on Twitter. 3) How are MOOCs and other massive open study opportunities changing or influencing out thinking as educators? Are we in danger of being left behind if our organisation/institution is not involved in MOOCs? 4) Is open content truly 'free'?

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The Principal of Change

JULY 5, 2017

I think I have more questions than answers after so many thoughts being shared on Twitter. Please find time to read the thread on Twitter…some really interesting conversations happening there.). Thanks for your time to look over my information; it would be a true pleasure to work for your organization. Bear with me.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

It is the instructional designer and tenured professor’s signal — “to the barricades!” — and everyone snipes at the other side from the Twitter trenches for a week, until there’s an unspoken truce that lasts until the next “ban laptops” op-ed gets published. A “ban laptops” op-ed may be the greatest piece of ed-tech clickbait ever devised.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

High School seniors (left to right) Hayley Striegel, Olivia Poplawski, Cheri Zheng-Fredericks and Julie Pignataro look for ways to verify information they’ve encountered on social media. My students are all about social media. They’ve never known life without it, and it’s where they get all their information.

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EdTechSandyK

APRIL 8, 2014

edX - www.edex.org - MOOC site, courses are all free, people who teach the courses are from Harvard, MIT, Berkeley, University of Texas, etc. Coursera is another option for higher ed MOOCS. Close to 10% of students got into MIT by excelling in a MOOC. District #5 : Kindergarten teachers started class Twitter accounts!

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

I would establish a new Twitter chat, where everyone, members and non-members of EDEN could come together periodically and virtually, to discuss the burning issues of the day. Twitter was therefore an ideal medium for the membership to use to communicate their ideas and debate topics of interest.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 24, 2016

I was there for a few reasons, starting with having the fine opportunity to lead a pre conference workshop, followed by presenting on two panels, helping out with a Twitter component, and reconnecting with dozens of friends and colleagues. On Twitter several people, on site and out of country, praised open as a business model.

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Hack Education

JULY 7, 2017

” Some of these experimental sites included MOOCs and coding bootcamps. ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Class Central’s Dhawal Shah, writing in Edsurge : “ MOOCs Find Their Audience: Professional Learners and Universities.” State and Local) Education Politics.

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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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EdTech Company Facebook Course 74

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Everyone is invited to participate in this FREE forum designed to foster collaboration and knowledge sharing among information professionals worldwide. To be kept informed of the latest conference news and updates, please ?join We have 146 accepted conference sessions and ten keynote addresses. join the Library 2.0

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Libraries Conference MOOC E-rate 51

Learning with 'e's

OCTOBER 30, 2011

Some of our favourite Twitter buddies pop up to make cameo appearances, including Jim Groom (inevitably included, but described in gritty terms as chain-smoking and unshaven), David Wiley, Alec Couros, George Siemens, Lawrence Lessig and Stephen Downes.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 27, 2015

Join us this Thursday, April 30th, 2015 for the online Library 2.015 Spring Summit - The Emerging Future: Technology and Learning , a three-hour conversation about technology issues and trends in the future of library and information services with an amazing set of guest panelists and presenters.

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Educator Innovator

JUNE 27, 2014

If you’re interested in transforming your own community into a citywide campus for learning, you can find out more information on how to do that at the Cities of Learning website. The MOOC is nonsequential, so anyone can join at any time. But the kids don’t get to have all the fun. Your learning will be directed by you.”

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

PROJECT: Student Visits-Exchanges-Collaborations PROJECT: MOOCs PROJECT: Google Helpouts PROJECT: Uniting Around One Social Cause PROJECT: International Co-Teaching A summary of today''s sessions is shown below in US-Eastern Standard Time (GMT/UTC-5). General conference information is posted here.

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PLE Personal Learning Network Conference Social Media 63

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Class Central : “ Monetizing A MOOC Platform.” Jeff Bezos posted a note on Twitter, outlining his plans to launch a $2 billion fund to build a chain of preschools and to support organizations that work with homeless families.

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Education MOOC Blackboard E-rate 54

Educator Innovator

OCTOBER 7, 2015

The majority of the tools mentioned in this post and the four earlier posts in our series, transform the student experience from passive consumers of information to active creators of content, employing multiple English Language Arts standards and skills along the way. We firmly believe this ought to be the new norm in the modern classroom.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

” Via Politico : “ Several Trump appointees shared unflattering views of minorities, women on social media.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via George Veletsianos : “A large-scale study of Twitter Use in MOOCs.” 2 job at the U.S. " No s**t.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 19, 2018

.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news in the job training section below. ” More on teen social media usage, this time from Buzzfeed : “‘Tweetdecking’ Is Taking Over Twitter. Data, Surveillance, and Information Security.

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Learning with 'e's

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

From the University of South Africa and the British Open University in the sixties to modern mega-universities, virtual universities and even Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs), the massification of education at a distance has progressively advanced as technology gives the impetus. We can look back and take stock. Far from it.

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Learning Technology Support Course MOOC 57

Hack Education

AUGUST 31, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” ClassDojo is now a full social media platform for schools - this letter & video just emailed to parents. There’s a lot to think about here, as Natasha Singer rightly pointed out on Twitter , as this might related to Big Ed-Tech.

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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. Because up ’til now, MOOCs were the most brilliant data mining app ever.). But how do they compare to the old one and the ACT ?”

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Education Pearson Report MOOC 52

Hack Education

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. Don’t mess with her on Twitter. These have all been separate articles in each series. Watch Tressie McMillan Cottom on The Daily Show.

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Robotics MOOC Training Industry 59

Hack Education

JUNE 2, 2017

Department of State has received emergency approval from the Office of Management and Budget to collect additional information regarding certain visa applicants ’ travel and employment histories, familial connections, and social media usage in accordance with a notice it posted in the Federal Register May 4.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2018

Via The Guardian : “ Student Loans Company ‘spied on vulnerable students’ social media’ ” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Data, Surveillance, and Information Security. ” JFC. ” Great.

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Education Pearson Company Blackboard 43

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Something something Brexit something something MOOCs will save British higher ed. tl;dr: emailing them, holding webinars, using social media. ” That’d be Glenn Reynolds , @instapundit , who also briefly had his Twitter account suspended.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

The Huffington Post filed Twitter’s response to Ivanka Trump ’s announcement under “comedy.” Just 22 schools with running water and basic supplies will start holding informal classes today in an attempt to kickstart recovery.” Privacy, Surveillance, and Information Security. 2 Post at Ed.

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Education Robotics Company MOOC 49

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Our Twitter hashtag is #stemx13, and we have some resources for publicizing at [link]. Social Media, Social Justice and STEM - Eric A Walters, Director of Technology Tikho''s Story: A Quest for Clean Water in Zambia - Natasha Sarkar, CAWST Youth Wavemakers Using VoiceThread to Connect Students with Science Content Specialists - Dr.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

This free event runs all week and is open to anyone to attend: spread the word with Twitter hashtag # globaled13. General information is posted here. Information about certificates for volunteers, presenters, and attendees is here. . The conference has awesome information, new knowledge,and idea" -sharing is great.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Judy Chu asks President Obama to protect the information of ‘ Dreamers ’ before Trump takes office.” ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Related, from the Social Media Collective : “Spike in Online Gig Work : Flash in the Pan or Future of Employment?”

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Education Company Data Pearson 40

Hack Education

JUNE 8, 2018

Via The Atlantic : “The Confusing Information Colleges Provide Students About Financial Aid.” ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Via Motherboard : “ Twitter Is Banning Anyone Whose Date of Birth Says They Joined Before They Were 13.” Education Department show.”

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Education Khan Academy Facebook E-rate 45

Hack Education

JUNE 17, 2016

Securities and Exchange Commission for allegedly sharing five school districts’ private information with an advisory company while it was negotiating for the districts’ contracts.” ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” (Hmm. .”

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ California Should Watch Arkansas Process for Creating New Online Institution,” says Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill. Privacy, Surveillance, and Information Security. There’s more for-profit news in the HR and accreditation sections below.

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Education ProctorU Company Report 51

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

If you’re going to talk about the importance of digital literacy or information literacy or media literacy or what have you, then you best practice it. ” Via The New York Times : “ Kremlin Cash Behind Billionaire’s Twitter and Facebook Investments.” Listen, folks (particularly educators).

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

“Hardly Anyone Wants to Take a Liberal Arts MOOC,” Edsurge informed its readers in February. ” Ron Hira, a scholar at Howard University who studies labor and technology, has been one of the most vocal skeptics about shortages in the informational technology fields. See: the LMS, the MOOC. Only “1.86

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Technology Education Microsoft Robotics 85

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) But Posterous, if you’ll recall, was acquired by Twitter in 2012 and shut down one year later. I’d love to provide a link but Andreessen deleted his blog in 2009.

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

” For those keeping track of how great social media is for the future of education and knowledge and civics and such: “Last Year, Social Media Was Used to Influence Elections in at Least 18 Countries ,” says the MIT Technology Review. ” “Whatever Happened To MOOCs ?”

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