Hack Education
NOVEMBER 2, 2016
” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity. As a folklorist, of course, I did catch the reference to the Oracle of Delphi. The quotation is from 2012.
Robert Talbert, Ph.D.
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
The "redux" in the title refers to a resurfacing of an earlier post, mentioned in the first paragraph, that still is one of the most-read and most-responded-to items I have ever written. In 2013 it was all about Khan Academy; in 2017, MOOCs; today the new hotness is AI. Does Khan realize this? What will it be next?
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NeverEndingSearch
DECEMBER 20, 2017
You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations.
Hack Education
MARCH 8, 2022
"The only thing that matters is the future," he told the magazine. Tall tales about the invention of the MOOC. " I like to cite, as an example, a New Yorker article from a few years ago, an interview with an Uber engineer who'd pleaded guilty to stealing Google's self-driving car technology.
Hack Education
MAY 26, 2016
Rebellions and republics – I thought briefly about calling this talk “The Terrible Beauty of Ed-Tech,” a reference to W. But my dad ran a little grocery store, and when I’d visit him at work, I’d crouch by the magazine rack and surreptitiously flip my way through as many as possible. What are we promising?
Hack Education
OCTOBER 14, 2016
” President Obama talked to Wired magazine about artificial intelligence, Mars, self-driving cars, Star Trek and more. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Microsoft -Branded MOOCs for K–12 Leaders.” Department of Education announced Wednesday.”
Hack Education
JULY 1, 2016
As Stephen Downes comments , “I find it interesting that they refer throughout to ‘ openly licensed educational materials ’ rather than ‘open educational resources’ – I wonder what the reasoning was behind that.” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Rebrand.
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