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EdSurge HigherEd Welcomes Jeff Young

Edsurge

Jeff's record of writing and reporting speaks for itself. He's led work on reporting on college technology, as well as on college admissions and student life. EdSurge: MOOCs, MOOCs, MOOCs! Young: Long live MOOCs! For more on EdSurge’s expansion into higher ed, read “Beyond K-12: EdSurge’s Next Move.”.

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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

Hack Education

” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity. ” Less than three months later, Apple introduced the iPhone. The quotation is from 2012. How do you do that? You gather experts.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

.” And in Delaware , “Authorities have arrested two Smyrna high school students in connection with threats involving clowns and bombs ,” the AP reports. ” “ Clown College Calls National Rash of Rumored Clown Scares ‘Troubling’,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. Raise $146.1

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

NeverEndingSearch

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. Comments Section : Students examine a post from a newspaper comment section and explain whether they would use it in a research report.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

“ Tax bill reflects rift between many Republicans and higher education,” The Washington Post reports. Restores Pell Eligibility to Nearly 300,000 Students,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” The University of Iceland has joined edX.

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

Hack Education

“Hardly Anyone Wants to Take a Liberal Arts MOOC,” Edsurge informed its readers in February. As education reporter Mikhail Zinshteyn wrote in The Atlantic earlier this year, a loud chorus of researchers in education and labor markets question the notion that workers are unqualified for the growing sophistication of tech jobs.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Still more education news from the UK: “ Sam Gyimah replaces Jo Johnson as universities minister ,” The Times Higher Education reports. Kudos to the Houston Chronicle for the original reporting on this in 2016. Lots of very excited and uncritical reporting on the new charter school on Oracle’s campus.