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And we also mulled over thorny emerging issues, such as the role socialmedia plays in designing our lives, and concerns about the corporatization of education. MOOCs are No Longer Massive. Once upon a time, free online courses known as MOOCs made national headlines. And They Serve Different Audiences Than First Imagined.
Cali Morrison (@calimorrison) March 27, 2018. Or, as Aneesa Davenport, SocialMedia & Analytics Manager for EdSurge, suggested, perhaps give them a periodic “check-up?” Farrar (@sent1nel) March 27, 2018. DLNchat [link] — Prof Straight (@RyanStraight) March 27, 2018. How do we keep algorithms in check?
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Promoting the library can be a fun and productive task for all employees and library users IF time is spent on developing a communication plan and providing content for print materials, socialmedia, and word-of-mouth interactions. online conferences, The Emerging Future (2015) and Blockchain (2018).
Participants are encouraged to use #library2019 and #libraryemergingtech on their socialmedia posts leading up to and during the event. She is the author of the book Emerging Library Technologies: It's Not Just for Geeks (Elsevier, 2018). Please also join this Library 2.0 network to be kept updated on this and future events.
Promoting the library can be a fun and productive task for all employees and library users IF time is spent on developing a communication plan and providing content for print materials, socialmedia, and word-of-mouth interactions. online conferences, The Emerging Future (2015) and Blockchain (2018).
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Via The Independent : “13-year-old girl arrested after contacting clown on socialmedia and asking him to kill her teacher.” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “Aftermath of the MOOC wars: Can commercial vendors support creative higher education ? Raise $146.1
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.
Copyright (c) 2018 by Barbara Oakley and Terrence Sejnowski. Or spend another “few minutes” on socialmedia. Dr. Oakley teaches two massive open online courses (MOOCs), “ Learning How to Learn ” (the world’s most popular course) and “Mindshift” alongside legendary neuroscientist Terrence Sejnowski. . Don’t eat arsenic!
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Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Gotta keep hyping that MOOC thing. Via Edsurge : “ MOOCs Are No Longer Massive. ” Via Class Central : “Class Central’s Top 50 MOOCs of All Time (2018 edition).” — Rebecca Klein (@rklein90) August 22, 2018.
.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news in the job training section below. ” More on teen socialmedia usage, this time from Buzzfeed : “‘Tweetdecking’ Is Taking Over Twitter. Doane University has joined edX.
And congrats on being first off the blocks to f**k up education in 2018! And the business of student loans is off to a strong start in 2018 with fundraising news in the venture capital section below. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Happy New Year, England ! “Who’s Toby Young?”
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” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via funding.hackeducation.com : “The Business of Ed-Tech: May 2018 Funding Data.” ” Via Pew : “ Teens , SocialMedia , & Technology 2018.” ” Mary Meeker’s 2018 Internet Trends. (I
Department of State has received emergency approval from the Office of Management and Budget to collect additional information regarding certain visa applicants ’ travel and employment histories, familial connections, and socialmedia usage in accordance with a notice it posted in the Federal Register May 4.
” For those keeping track of how great socialmedia is for the future of education and knowledge and civics and such: “Last Year, SocialMedia Was Used to Influence Elections in at Least 18 Countries ,” says the MIT Technology Review. ” “Whatever Happened To MOOCs ?”
Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). MOOCs are back in the headlines again. Via Edsurge : “The Second Wave of MOOC Hype Is Here, and It’s Online Degrees.” ” From the Google blog : “ Google Science Fair 2018 : Resources for educators to get ideas flowing.”
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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. Just a reminder that Twitter does not care about your school’s socialmedia initiative. Via Politico : “How U.S.
Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” MOOCs are dead , according to Udacity ’s VP. ” Never one to let a good MOOC story pass them by, Edsurge repeats the story. “MOOCs Are ”Dead.“ million in crowdfunding for its MOOC platform. “ What’s Next?
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From the Department of Education press release : “ Federal Commission on School Safety Meeting to Focus on the Effects of Entertainment , Media , Cyberbullying and SocialMedia on Violence and Student Safety.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Starts with a g? Ends with -uns?
” Via Bklyner.com : “ Brooklyn Public Library and Bard College to Offer Free College Degree Programs in 2018.” ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “How Much Hollywood Glitz Should Colleges Use in Their Online Courses ?” ” The Business of Student Loans. ” No.
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” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Jeff Sessions remarks on student data privacy laws and how they may inhibit school shooting prevention efforts pic.twitter.com/h3mOcqWo1F — Caitlin Emma (@caitlinzemma) July 11, 2018. ” The Pew Research Center on “ Activism in the SocialMedia Age.”
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Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Politico : Western Governors University , “the nation’s leading provider of competency-based educatio n – which the Education Department’s independent watchdog last month said violated federal student aid rules – is expanding into North Carolina.”
” Online Education and The Once and Future “MOOC” “ Deakin University in Australia will next year offer graduate degrees and certificate programs through FutureLearn , the online learning platform owned by the Open University in the U.K.,” ” “So-So SocialMedia Privacy?
Via Inside Higher Ed : “The State Department is proposing to ask additional questions of visa applicants regarding their socialmedia usage.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). “The MOOC is not dead, but maybe it should be,” says Rolin Moe. Immigration and Education.
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” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Here’s Where CEO Larry Berger Says It’s Going in 2018.” We talk *teaching machines* with @audreywatters [link] — Jennifer Berkshire (@BisforBerkshire) June 5, 2018. Education Department show.” Without a University Involved.)”
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