Hack Education
SEPTEMBER 3, 2020
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. That robot grading is degrading.
Hack Education
APRIL 20, 2018
Remember, if you will, the insistence from the University of Virginia Board of Visitors that school was missing the “coming MOOC tsunami” based on columns they’d read in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. ” There was all the usual talk of job-stealing robots and the “ jobs that don’t exist yet.”
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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.”) ” MOOCs looked – for a short while, at least – like they were going to pivot to become LMSes. The Chromebooks are not fully-functioning laptops.
Hack Education
JULY 13, 2018
” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Pi-top , the maker of a Raspberry Pi-compatible laptop, has raised $16 million from Hambro Perks and Committed Capital. ” The virtual charter school in question: ECOT. .” million total.
Hack Education
JULY 27, 2018
Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news from Edsurge in the “job training” section below. There’s more MOOC news from Edsurge in the “job training” section below. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” S.c.r.e.a.m.i.n.g.
Hack Education
JULY 28, 2017
Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Lots of MOOC PR appeared in the news this week. ” “What if MOOCs Revolutionize Education After All?” “Now that MOOCs are mainstream, where does online learning go next?” And more on MOOCs in the credentialing section below as well.
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 For their part, critics of laptop bans claimed the studies the op-eds frequently cite were flawed, reductive, and out-of-date.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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