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Notes from Leadership for the Digital Age with Alan November - Day 2

EdTechSandyK

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. Click here to see all of them.) For example, this young man from Mongolia.

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Beyond K-12: EdSurge’s Next Move

Edsurge

I’ll just pop open my laptop for an hour or so after the kids go to bed,” says a one adult learner, working to complete her bachelor’s degree online with the ASU Global Freshman Academy. Early signs suggest that technology, smartly chosen and carefully implemented, can improve learners’ outcomes, lower costs and ease difficult transitions.

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Robot Teachers, Racist Algorithms, and Disaster Pedagogy

Hack Education

Many of these companies were launched circa 2013 — that is, in the tailwinds of "the Year of the MOOC" — with the belief that an increasing number of students would be learning online and that professors would demand some sort of mechanism to verify their identity and their integrity.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) ” MOOCs looked – for a short while, at least – like they were going to pivot to become LMSes. The Chromebooks are not fully-functioning laptops.

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Another glimpse of European higher education and technology

Bryan Alexander

Many participants explored how to implement open policies, often in legalistic detail, and also considered the benefits. A Maltese education leader dove into their secondary school laptop initiative. MOOCs… ah, this is fascinating. Once more I saw how the MOOC hype crash is limited to the United States.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Edsurge : “Experts Look Into the Crystal Ball of the Next Administration’s Ed Policy.” 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 ?

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Pi-top , the maker of a Raspberry Pi-compatible laptop, has raised $16 million from Hambro Perks and Committed Capital. Via The Washington Post : “Former executives of defunct for-profit college firm ITT settle fraud charges with SEC.” million total.