Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Beyond the MOOC. School and “Skills” MOOCS, Outsourcing, and Online Education. MOOCs and Anti-MOOCs. Learning to Code. Education Data and Learning Analytics. The Collapse of For-Profit Higher Education (Or Not). The Compulsion for Data. Social Media, Campus Activism, and Free Speech.

Technology 58

Technology MOOC Trends Khan Academy 58

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Steve Jobs wouldn’t let his kids have iPads. 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. Ed-Tech Startup Accelerators.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

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. Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?).

Technology 62

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Twitter announced big layoffs this week – 9% of its staff – and said it would shutter its video app Vine. ” IBM released a Watson-powered education app for iPad. Via New America : “The Promise and Peril of Predictive Analytics in Higher Education.”

Education 40

Education Pearson Blackboard Survey 40

Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

“ Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : ”Why Twitter Is Calling Abigail Fisher ’ Becky With the Bad Grades ’: A Brief Explainer.” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). billion it agreed to pay Apple/Pearson for iPads, but what do I know). “Is Estonia the new Finland ?”

Coursera 60

Coursera Education E-rate Company 60