Edsurge
MAY 14, 2017
If imitation is the highest form of flattery, Salman Khan should feel honored. Since he introduced Khan Academy in 2006, the free, open-access education platform has inspired several knock-offs focused on specific disciplines. I could see that my students were distracted by social media during the lecture.
Doug Levin
MAY 12, 2015
I don’t fret much at all over some of what Clark raises: the acceptance and/or lack of broader cheer-leading for Wikipedia, MOOCs, or Khan Academy as success stories. K-12 context, individual teacher’s choices about instructional materials are constrained by district and state policy anyway.
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EdTechSandyK
APRIL 8, 2014
edX - www.edex.org - MOOC site, courses are all free, people who teach the courses are from Harvard, MIT, Berkeley, University of Texas, etc. Coursera is another option for higher ed MOOCS. Close to 10% of students got into MIT by excelling in a MOOC. Use every bit of social media that you can.
Hack Education
NOVEMBER 29, 2017
Beyond the MOOC. Social Media, Campus Activism, and Free Speech. School and “Skills” MOOCS, Outsourcing, and Online Education. MOOCs and Anti-MOOCs. Social Media: Adoption and Crackdown. Khan Academy. The Collapse of For-Profit Higher Education (Or Not). Indie Ed-Tech.
Hack Education
OCTOBER 7, 2016
Via The Independent : “13-year-old girl arrested after contacting clown on social media and asking him to kill her teacher.” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “Aftermath of the MOOC wars: Can commercial vendors support creative higher education ? Raise $146.1
Hack Education
NOVEMBER 24, 2017
. “ ICE officials have invited tech companies, including Microsoft , to develop algorithms that will track visa holders’ social media activity ,” ProPublica reports. Schools should consider the ways in which their own social media surveillance re-inscribes these sorts of violent, nationalist policies.
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. ” The Pew Research Center on “ Activism in the Social Media Age.” Upgrades and Downgrades.
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