Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). In related MOOC news, there's more on “ nanodegrees ” in the “credentialing” section below. Because up ’til now, MOOCs were the most brilliant data mining app ever.). But how do they compare to the old one and the ACT ?” Or something.

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Education Pearson Report MOOC 52

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

It is the instructional designer and tenured professor’s signal — “to the barricades!” — and everyone snipes at the other side from the Twitter trenches for a week, until there’s an unspoken truce that lasts until the next “ban laptops” op-ed gets published. MOOCs are, no surprise, their own entry on this long list of awfulness.

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Pearson MOOC Company Industry 145

Hack Education

MARCH 17, 2017

As CNN reporter Andrew Kaczynski noted on Twitter Tuesday, Eck, who is now a special assistant to Secretary DeVos, tweeted last November that Hamill should ‘stick to playing Han Solo’s short little b—-’ after Hamill tweeted criticism of the Trump administration.” Are MOOCs webinars? Are webinars now MOOCs?).

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Education MOOC Company Report 46

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JUNE 16, 2017

” (Probably worth checking out Sara Goldrick-Rab’s comments on Twitter about this one.). ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Big HR news about Coursera in the HR section below. Here’s the headline from Inside Higher Ed : “For-Credit MOOC: Best of Both Worlds at MIT ?”

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Education Coursera MOOC Kaplan 44

Hack Education

AUGUST 5, 2016

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Remember when Twitter announced that it was donating its archive to the Library of Congress ? MOOCs, CAI, and now this. ” Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill chastises a market research company on lousy research about the LMS market. .”

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Education Pearson Report Policies 40

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NOVEMBER 10, 2017

” Via The New York Times : “ Kremlin Cash Behind Billionaire’s Twitter and Facebook Investments.” ” Via The Guardian : “ Russia funded Facebook and Twitter investments through Kushner associate.” And from Phil Hill : “A Note on Data Used for LMS Market Analysis.”

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Education Facebook Company Report 45

Hack Education

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” These headlines just kill me. ” More MOOC data in the “research” section below. ” Disclosure: the Mooch now follows me on Twitter. ” Class Central surveyed its users : “ MOOC Users Highly Educated, Have Experienced Career Benefits.”

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Knewton Education Company MOOC 46

Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

“ Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : ”Why Twitter Is Calling Abigail Fisher ’ Becky With the Bad Grades ’: A Brief Explainer.” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Here’s the rub: it’s an LMS. ” Thank goodness for education journalism.

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Coursera Education E-rate Company 60

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APRIL 20, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” ( A good thread on Twitter in response.). ” Via Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill : “Comparing the First Ten Years of Blackboard and Instructure in LMS Market.” ” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. ” (Psst.

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JULY 21, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” The LA Times asks , “ In this digital self-help age, just how effective are MasterClass ’s A-list celebrity workshops?” It’s about 50 years old if you recognize some of PLATO’s functionality is LMS-like.)

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Education LMS Robotics E-rate 46

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OCTOBER 28, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Twitter announced big layoffs this week – 9% of its staff – and said it would shutter its video app Vine. ” Data and “Research” Via The Next Web : “Survey shows millennials fall for cyber scams more often than seniors.”

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