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Should Online Courses Go Through ‘Beta Testing’? How One Provider Taps 2,500 Volunteers

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Coursera was a pioneer in offering MOOCs, or massive open online courses, in partnership with hundreds of top colleges. While attention around MOOCs has died down, the company seems to have found a business model for free courses with something it calls Specializations. I have to say, a week of beta testing is not nearly enough.”

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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.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “Aftermath of the MOOC wars: Can commercial vendors support creative higher education ? ” The phone was not a Samsung Galaxy Note 7, which have been recalled because of battery explosions, but an iPhone 6 Plus. Raise $146.1

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

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“Hardly Anyone Wants to Take a Liberal Arts MOOC,” Edsurge informed its readers in February. ” The technology revolution has delivered Google searches, Facebook friends, iPhone apps, Twitter rants and shopping for almost anything on Amazon, all in the past decade and a half. See: the LMS, the MOOC.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ California Should Watch Arkansas Process for Creating New Online Institution,” says Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill. ” Among the new features: facial recognition to unlock the new iPhone. Upgrades and Downgrades. Apple had a thing.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Launches Online School to Teach Software Development.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via The GW Hatchet : “Oversight of online learning programs lacking in some schools, report finds.” Once upon a time, Coursera updates went in the MOOC section.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” There’s more MOOC news in the “business of education” section below. Via Motherboard : “The iPhone ’s New Parental Controls Block Searches for Sex Ed , Allow Violence and Racism.” The software in question: Exam4.