Edsurge
JUNE 9, 2020
It’s a major pain point in the education system: Between 40 percent to 60 percent of college students now need some form of remedial math, or English, or both, and the United States ranks 36th out of a comparison group of 79 countries in math proficiency, according to the 2018 Programme for International Student Assessment.
Hack Education
OCTOBER 20, 2018
But I’d argue that, more importantly perhaps, we must recognize that there is no point in the history of the American public education system that we can point to as the golden age of high quality, equitable, commercial free schooling. MOOCs were going to change everything. So far at least these predictions have always been wrong.
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Edsurge
MARCH 20, 2019
It’s common these days to hear that free online mega-courses, called MOOCs, failed to deliver on their promise of educating the masses. Now, one of the first professors to try out MOOCs says he has a way to reuse bits and pieces of the courses created during that craze in a way that might deliver on the initial promise.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 9, 2017
” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) It may be the hardware or the operating system (OS), even a web browser or other underlying software, as long as the program code is executed in it. If so, what are they?
Hack Education
DECEMBER 29, 2017
Absorb (learning management system) – $59 million. AltSchool (private school; learning management system) – $40 million. AltSchool (private school; learning management system) – $172.9 D2L (learning management system) – $165 million. Knewton ( mind-reading robo tutor in the sky ) – $157.25
Hack Education
DECEMBER 31, 2018
Knewton (adaptive learning): $182.3 AltSchool (private school; learning management system): $172.9 D2L (learning management system): $165 million. ” (Its MOOC competitor edX also announced this year that many of its courses would no longer be free.) Vive la MOOC révolution. Coursera (online education): $210.1
Hack Education
DECEMBER 23, 2019
ASU ends its MOOC experiment , Global Freshman Academy. Mind reading robo tutor in the sky” company Knewton was acquired by Wiley for $17 million — LOL — having raised over $180 million. The University of Alaska system braced for campus closures and layoffs after its operating budget was slashed by 41%. Udacity got a new CEO.
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