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From the SPARC press release : “Congress Funds $5 Million Open Textbook Grant Program in 2018 Spending Bill.” ” It’s being positioned here as the first time Congress has funded open textbooks, but it’s not the federal government’s first commitment to OER. Government Will Travel to Latin America.”
… The state has until September 1, 2018 ‘to fully implement its program for basic education’ and it must have a plan for funding and implementing ‘by the final adjournment of the 2017 legislative session,’ the court said in a ruling written by Chief Justice Barbara Madsen.” Raise $146.1
Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Via Edsurge : “5 Ways MOOC -Based Degrees Are Different From Other Online Degrees.” ” Not listed: other online degrees simply aren’t hyped the way MOOCs are. “ Does OER Actually Improve Learning? of Washington.”
SeanMcElwee) April 11, 2018. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). “ Can a For-Profit, Venture-Backed Company Keep OER Free – and Be Financially Sustainable? Edsurge’s coverage of Top Hat’s OER news is also in the Betteridge’s Law section above. ” asks Edsurge.
Thank God we spent the last 20 years paying a dozen middle-aged white men to rehash the same articles on how political correctness on campus is the true threat to free speech [link] — Dara Very Rude Elevator Screamers Kaye (@DaraKaye) October 29, 2018. 1/ pic.twitter.com/MDuwuX3Hv2 — Clare McCann (@claremccann) October 26, 2018.
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Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ California Should Watch Arkansas Process for Creating New Online Institution,” says Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill. IBM wants us to believe that Watson is incredibly powerful – powerful enough, even, to search 1000 OER.
You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 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. In May 2018, Channel One aired its last broadcast.
” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Here’s The Chronicle headline from then : “Professor Leaves a MOOC in Mid-Course in Dispute Over Teaching.”) Good thing I never did anything in those MOOCs, otherwise I'd be losing my work. Remember Richard McKenzie?
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. “Learning styles” in the White House: President Trump doesn’t read his daily intelligence briefings, gets oral briefings on “select” issues instead, because reading isn’t “his style of learning,” the @washingtonpost reports [link] — Kasie Hunt (@kasie) February 9, 2018. douglevin) February 12, 2018. High School.”
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pic.twitter.com/blv9wVoxZr — Helen Gym (@HelenGymAtLarge) October 25, 2018. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). “ Coursera ’s 2018 Revenue Estimated to be $140 million,” Class Central estimates. Via The College Board : “Trends in College Pricing 2018.”
” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). “Some Thoughts on OER ” by Mindwires Consulting’s Michael Feldstein. Here’s Where CEO Larry Berger Says It’s Going in 2018.” Education Department show.” Without a University Involved.)”
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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."
House Resolution 899 – sponsored by Representative Tom Massie (R-KY) is just one sentence long: “ The Department of Education shall terminate on December 31, 2018.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ MOOCs : A Postmortem” by Jonathan Rees. .” Yet. ”).
” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “What Trump’s Proposed 2018 Budget Would Mean for Higher Ed.” ” Via Edweek’s Market Brief : “ Trump’s Budget for Fiscal 2018: Cuts for Ed., Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Slate : “ The New Diploma Mills.”
Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Via Politico : “ Elizabeth City State University , UNC Pembroke and Western Carolina University will each offer $500 in-state tuition starting in fall 2018.” Via eCampus News : “ Barnes & Noble Education announces advanced OER courseware.”
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