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MOOCs Are Global. So Where Do They Stand With New European Privacy Laws?

Edsurge

And the issue gets even stickier for colleges hosting massive open online courses with outside learning platforms, which host free or low-cost digital courses for millions of learners around the globe. MOOC-provider Coursera, for example, claims to have 6.5 For their part, some MOOC providers have already made steps towards compliance.

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15 hot edtech trends for 2017

eSchool News

They can be something everybody uses; that’s how 2012 became the year of the MOOC, and why virtual reality will no doubt be widely cited as the trend of 2016. MOOCs continued to increase in number and attendance. Duke University ran a widely read lecture capture survey. By Stephen Downes, National Research Council.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Edsurge : “New Survey: Students See Anxiety and Time Management Among Top Challenges to Finishing Degrees.” ” The survey was conducted by learning analytics company Civitas Learning.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). So much MOOC news! (Or “ MOOCs Are Global. Also via Edsurge : “How Harvard Is Trying to Update the Extension School for the MOOC Age.” Via Campus Technology : “When Learning Analytics Violate Student Privacy.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). In related MOOC news, there's more on “ nanodegrees ” in the “credentialing” section below. ” [Insert Course Signals learning analytics joke here.]. Because up ’til now, MOOCs were the most brilliant data mining app ever.).

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Course Signals, a software product developed by Purdue University, was designed to boost “student success” by using learning analytics to inform teachers, students, and staff to potential problems, labeling students with a red/yellow/green scheme to indicate their danger in failing a course. Course Signals. Uber for Education". “We

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” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Chalkbeat investigates the Indiana Virtual School : “As students signed up, online school hired barely any teachers – but founder’s company charged it millions.” Educators Discuss Pros and Cons of Learning Analytics.”