The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2015

This webinar will cover what to look for in a game, where to get good games for learning, and strategies to integrate games into the system of a classroom. Monday, April 27th at 5pm edWeb Webinar: Getting Started with Game-Based Learning , Are you curious about game-based learning, but don’t know where to begin? Register for free at [link].

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DECEMBER 29, 2017

Absorb (learning management system) – $59 million. AltSchool (private school; learning management system) – $40 million. AltSchool (private school; learning management system) – $172.9 D2L (learning management system) – $165 million. Learning management systems , with ~ $65 million in funding.

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DECEMBER 31, 2018

AltSchool (private school; learning management system): $172.9 D2L (learning management system): $165 million. It’s worth noting, I think, that tutoring as the preferential method of instruction is deeply intertwined with the long history of computer-assisted instruction and “intelligent tutoring systems.”

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NOVEMBER 12, 2014

“An equitable education system…is one in which student achievement and learning are not predictable by race, class, language, gender, sexual orientation, or other such social factors.” Finally, Mirra writes about the hasty planning or lack thereof in LA for their iPad rollout and partnership with Pearson.

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JANUARY 15, 2019

Once upon a time, she notes, “MOOCs were supposed to displace higher education. Now many MOOCs are embedded within these institutions. There’s a moment in the market now where publishers like Pearson and McGraw-Hill—the traditional 800-pound gorillas—may be supplanted by new, digital-first technology platforms.”

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Smith, Director of Programs Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for STEM - Revolutionary or Evolutionary? Build, Play, Learn - Fun STEM Activities for School Year and Summer Camp Programs - Laura Briggs, STEM Camp Director, Technology Resource Teacher Get Your Students Outside with Technology!

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DECEMBER 23, 2019

Pearson sold its US K-12 curriculum business for $250 million. Pearson said it would shift its strategy and make all its textbooks “ digital first ” (which you just know is going to cost students more). ASU ends its MOOC experiment , Global Freshman Academy. Good work, Adam and Rebekah. Udacity got a new CEO. LOL LOL LOL.

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OCTOBER 7, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “Aftermath of the MOOC wars: Can commercial vendors support creative higher education ? A Wi-Fi system. Pearson has issued a report on students’ attitudes toward digital course materials. Raise $146.1 ” Mindset all the things.

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AUGUST 12, 2016

” The company – funded by Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Pearson, Learn Capital, and others – says it will remain open. ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Education Dive makes claims about “ MOOCs as tools for equity in under-resourced high schools.” ” Oh look.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). MOOC hype deja vu.). Via Edsurge : “A Timeline of Google Classroom ’s March to Replace Learning Management Systems.” ” “ PEARSON alized Learning” by Mindwire Consulting’s Michael Feldstein.

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APRIL 14, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via the Coursera blog : “New mobile features: Transcripts, notes, and reminders.” " It’s lovely to see the big innovation from the MOOC startups in 2017 involves the learning management system. ” asks The Atlantic.

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DECEMBER 22, 2017

Two school districts in two states are scaling back their use of the Facebook -built Summit Public Schools ’ learning management system. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). A call to rebrand MOOCs , from Edsurge. McRaven is stepping down as chancellor of the University of Texas System.

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APRIL 13, 2018

“Publishers Wiley , Cengage , Pearson and McGraw-Hill Education have won a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against a seller of fake textbooks ,” Inside Higher Ed reports. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Credly has acquired Pearson ’s badge platform, Acclaim.

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JUNE 1, 2018

” Via NPR : “Preschools In Ghana ’s Capital Challenge Call-And-Response System.” ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via TPM : “No Test Left Behind – How Pearson Made a Killing on the US Testing Craze.” ECS Learning Systems has acquired PREPWORKS.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

.” “Free College” Via Inside Higher Ed : “The California Community Colleges announced Tuesday that the Board of Governors Fee Waiver program, which provides nearly half of the system’s 2.1 Via The Hindu Business Line : “ Pearson India set to launch K–12 online private school.”

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

” “A government watchdog group called Florida ’s growing system of privately-run public charter schools wasteful and said it sometimes gives rise to self-dealing and profiteering ,” says The Florida Times-Union. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). “ Can Pearson Sell Efficacy?

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DECEMBER 11, 2016

Perhaps, as developmental psychologist Edith Ackermann argued this year, the “ maker ” movement will serve as “ Papert’s Perestroika ,” thawing the school system’s reluctance to embrace constructionist practices. And then there’s the advice from Pearson. Only “1.86

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JANUARY 26, 2018

” Gentrification is forcing poor people out of the city; segregated school systems follow them to new locations. ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Class Central : “A Product at Every Price: A Review of MOOC Stats and Trends in 2017.”

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JUNE 23, 2017

Via Inside Higher Ed : “The British government releases the results … of its new three-tiered rating system of teaching quality at universities.” ” The publishers in question are Cengage , McGraw-Hill , and Pearson. ” The testing firm in question: Pearson. The History of Pearson.

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OCTOBER 27, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” MOOCs. “Learning Creative Learning: It’s not a MOOC , it’s a community,” says the MIT Media Lab. “A Proposal to Put the ‘M’ Back in MOOCs ” – an op-ed by Class Central ’s Dhawal Shah in Edsurge.

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JUNE 16, 2018

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). “Free MOOCs Face the Music,” writes Inside Higher Ed on edX ’s decision to start charging fees. More “MOOC” news under the job training section below. million for its MOOC platform. The company has raised $21.8

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AUGUST 4, 2018

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). of Texas System Picks Former CUNY Leader as Its Next Chancellor.” Via Edsurge : “ Pearson ’s Former Product Chief Reflects on the 4 Megatrends Shaping Global Education.” ” JFC. Let kids have a friggin’ snow day.

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APRIL 6, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). “The MOOC is not dead, but maybe it should be,” says Rolin Moe. ” Inside Higher Ed looks at how the North Dakota University System is “Blocking Child Porn on Campus.” ” Accreditations and Certifications and Competencies.

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JANUARY 18, 2017

” From the press release : “Treasury and Education Announce Progress Toward Multi-Year Income Certification System for Student Loan Borrowers in Income-Driven Repayment Plans.” Via the IEEE Spectrum : “How the Pioneers of the MOOC Got It Wrong.” ” Yes, the department is now on GitHub. .”

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MAY 5, 2017

For nearly 30 years, Medicaid has helped school systems cover costs for special education services and equipment, from physical therapists to feeding tubes. ” The Department of Education has rehired student loan debt collectors fired by the Obama Administration: Enterprise Recovery Systems and Navient-owned Pioneer Credit Recovery.

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DECEMBER 1, 2016

Under the new system, most students who have been approved for test accommodations in high school will receive accommodations as long as their high school can answer two questions in the affirmative: ‘Is the requested accommodation(s) in the student's plan? ’ and ‘Has the student used the accommodation(s) for school testing?’”

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AUGUST 31, 2018

” That is, three campuses in the University of Puerto Rico system. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Education Week on a Pearson poll : “Generation Z Prefers Learning From YouTube, Not Books.” There’s more US federal government news in the guns section below.

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DECEMBER 30, 2019

In 2012, Pearson, Cengage Learning, and Macmillan Higher Education sued Boundless Learning, claiming that the open education textbook startup had “stolen the creative expression of their authors and editors, violating their intellectual-property rights.” Pearson PARCC "Spies" on Students. Textbook Publishers vs. Boundless.

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MAY 13, 2016

Via The Atlantic : “Two radically different bills aim to overhaul [ Detroit ’s] beleaguered school system. Testing, Testing… Via EdWeek’s Market Brief : “British Officials, Pearson Probe Effort to Leak Test Content.” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). This is ed-tech.

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APRIL 3, 2017

Turns out that Pearson, which once funded and acquired a lot of startups, isn’t in particularly good financial shape itself.). This is part of the push for MOOCs, we must be honest.). In education, that’s the learning management system (the VLE) perhaps. The California that ignores race and labor and water and war.

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Hack Education

MAY 4, 2018

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.” ” There’s a MOOC-related privacy story in the MOOC section above. “Soon.”

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JULY 1, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Elsewhere in MOOC research… From Campus Technology : “Grouping MOOC Students by Communication Mode Doesn’t Help Completion.” ” More on MOOC (and related) research in the research section below. MOOCs losing their mojo?

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JULY 6, 2018

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos today announced that the Puerto Rico Department of Education (PRDE) will be the first to pilot new flexibility under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) to create a student-centered funding system. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). He wrote a very good response.

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JULY 27, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news from Edsurge in the “job training” section below. There’s more MOOC news from Edsurge in the “job training” section below. ” ( Not mentioned : Penn was one of the very first investors in Coursera.).

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DECEMBER 13, 2016

Because despite their marketing copy, it remains important to ask: how do employers, in and out of Silicon Valley, respond to these alt-credentials – to MOOC certificates and nanodegrees and microcredentials and badges? ” MOOCs for credit. Keep Away From Coding Schools.” ” “ Flexible, stackable courses.”

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MAY 20, 2016

Republican lawmakers back bill that would substantially cut tuition and revenue , and seek more student diversity, at five system campuses, four of which are minority-serving institutions.” “ Pearson gets emergency test scoring contract from Tennessee ,” Chalkbeat reports. Pearson hearts coding bootcamps.

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MAY 19, 2017

senators released a bill Monday that would overturn the ban on a federal student-level data system that would allow for the tracking of employment and graduation rates. ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “Why Haven’t MOOCs Eliminated Any Professors?” Marbotic has raised $1.5

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