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In China’s Silicon Valley, Edtech Starts at the ‘MOOC Times Building’

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One sign of that: There’s a 22-story tower in the country’s capital officially named the “MOOC Times Building” that houses a government-supported incubator for edtech companies. But MOOCs were trending upward back in 2014 when the education incubator was established, so it made a catchy name for the building. and elsewhere.”

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It’s Time to Digitally Transform Community College

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Community college has even risen to a key policy point in national and state politics, with politicians touting plans and creating models for “free college ,” which often mean tuition-free options for community college as a pathway to four-year degrees or other credentials. But are community colleges ready for this digital transformation?

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Facebook Seems to Be Adding Video-Course Features. For Edtech, That Raises Old Fears.

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Users who follow Meta’s monetization policies can offer paid live events, allowing them to offer things like cooking classes or fundraisers. But recent reports have speculated that the company could “bootstrap an online course ecosystem.” The service is an extension of the company’s paid live events feature.

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How a Pandemic Could Change Higher Education

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One is to set clearly what your guiding principles are, principles like high quality, maximum equity, flexibility, community, and being super prescriptive about the broad policy decisions that need to be made. I remember I used to go around, and I would give a presentation about the importance of online learning.

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What Happens When Ed-Tech Forgets? Some Thoughts on Rehabilitating Reputations

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AllLearn wasn't the only online education failure of the early 2000s, of course. Columbia University invested $30 million into its own online learning initiative, Fathom, that opened in 2000 and closed in 2003. There, you can learn that this initiative was headed by one Michael M. We can debate which one.

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Designing Organizations to Support Tech on Campus #SXSWedu

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Kim, Researcch Scientist in the Learning Systems Lab, MIT What is your mission? Kim: Transform teaching & learning at MIT around the globe through the use of digital technology. MOOCs, technology infusion projects, online masters or pathways to credit, research. Unported License.

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Why Education Is a ‘Wicked Problem’ for Learning Engineers to Solve

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Is there a worry that learning isn't happening to its full capacity, or not for everybody? Wicked problem” is a technical term initially proposed in the context of public policy in the late 1970s. But another technology that we are very excited about is a virtual experimentation researcher system. Goel: There is another tension.

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