Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2017

As the bubbly enthusiasm in the democratizing power of platforms like Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and Khan Academy quietly wanes, we’ve seen more attention to digital inequity like the homework gap and gender discrimination in coding careers. Despite the sobering findings, 2017 offered some notable bright spots.

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EdTech Khan Academy MOOC Broadband 98

Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

million laptops to all public primary schools. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “Aftermath of the MOOC wars: Can commercial vendors support creative higher education ? It’s always fascinating to look at ed-tech companies’ job postings – this one is from Khan Academy.

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Education MOOC Report Khan Academy 63

Hack Education

JULY 13, 2018

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “ Khan Academy introduces something big for little learners,” says the Khan Academy blog. Pi-top , the maker of a Raspberry Pi-compatible laptop, has raised $16 million from Hambro Perks and Committed Capital.

Education 43

Education Khan Academy Blackboard Report 43

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Ban Laptops" Op-Eds. For the past ten years, every ten months or so, someone would pen an op-ed claiming it was time to ban laptops in the classroom. For their part, critics of laptop bans claimed the studies the op-eds frequently cite were flawed, reductive, and out-of-date. WTF is Unizin ?! Collared Dove. And on and on and on.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145