Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Diverse by Design: Creating CS Programs for All : When working to diversity computer science programs, strategies often look to improve existing programs rather than designing better programs for all from the get-go. But the technology lends a question: to what extent should educational products make assumptions about a user’s end goal?

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MOOC EdTech OER Kaplan 60

Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 24, 2016

I hoped to move on from there to what I called “approaches”, ways of using tech that didn’t depend on a specific platform – i.e., gaming and gamification, blended learning, distance learning, MOOCs, mobile, and digital literacy. Bragaw encourages us to rethink campus strategy in light of being a nonprofit business.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” The University of Iceland has joined edX. Via Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill : “Big Changes at Unizin : CEO and COO resign after board meeting.” The business of OER. The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. Will they make it happen? .”

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Education Khan Academy Company Training 44

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan called badges a “game-changing strategy.”. MOOCs are, no surprise, their own entry on this long list of awfulness.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

” 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.” ” That is, some schools are having “ scrum meetings ,” or something.

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Education Facebook Company Robotics 48

Hack Education

MARCH 9, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Vive la MOOC révolution. ” “Orphan MOOCs and the Digital Dark Ages” by Jeffrey Pomerantz in Hybrid Pedagogy. ” There’s more licensing and certification news in the MOOC section above. Edsurge on the business of OER.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 6, 2016

The Rebranding of MOOCs. Remember 2012 , “ The Year of the MOOC? Remember in 2012 when the media wrote about MOOCs with such frenzy, parroting all these marketing claims and more and predicting that MOOCs were poised to “ end the era of expensive higher education ”? MOOCs are not particularly "open."

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