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The Professor Who Quit His Tenured Job to Make Podcasts and Lecture Videos

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He made the move to his new phase of scholarly life during a rush of enthusiasm for so-called MOOCs, Massive Open Online Courses, that big-name colleges were starting to offer low-cost higher education to a wider audience. The vision was partly to be mobile. Back in the day I was a complex systems philosopher of science.

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5 Ideas for Teaching Students the Most Important Skill They’ll Need

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Nowadays, mobile technologies are shaping up to be just as ground-breaking. Some of these courses are offered through the university system, but many others are made available outside of traditional academia. Massive Open Online Courses (Sometimes referred to as MOOCs) – MOOCs are readily available courses that are presented online.

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From Good Intentions to Real Shortcomings: An Edtech Reckoning

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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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The Stories We've Been Told (in 2017) about Education Technology

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All this happened in the larger context of news from the US school system itself. Beyond the MOOC. School and “Skills” MOOCS, Outsourcing, and Online Education. MOOCs and Anti-MOOCs. Khan Academy. Mobile Learning. The Collapse of For-Profit Higher Education (Or Not). Indie Ed-Tech.

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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 ? It’s always fascinating to look at ed-tech companies’ job postings – this one is from Khan Academy. A Wi-Fi system. Raise $146.1

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via The New York Times : “Judge, Citing Inequality, Orders Connecticut to Overhaul Its School System.” ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). “ MOOCs no longer massive, still attract millions,” Class Central’s Dhawal Shah claims in a VentureBeat op-ed.

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?Are We Recreating Segregated Education Online?

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People can now work through a series of lectures while they commute or complete coursework on a mobile phone between shifts. Despite these promising developments, however, vast inequity still persists in the United States education system. Different industries have contributed to the trend. Content-Driven vs. Connection-Driven.

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