Hack Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “Stop Asking About Completion Rates: Better Questions to Ask About MOOCs in 2019,” says Edsurge. .” Such a small world.

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Education MOOC Social Media E-rate 61

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Private School With Low Vaccination Rates.” All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education.

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Education LMS Robotics E-rate 54

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, Um, they do.) The key word in that headline isn’t “digital”; it’s “force.”

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Gotta keep hyping that MOOC thing. Via Edsurge : “ MOOCs Are No Longer Massive. despite having Arizona ’s third-highest dropout rate.”

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Education MOOC Kaplan Robotics 46

Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

” The story contains some machinations at the Department of Education in which the White Hous e tried to fire a Jeb Bush-supporting staffer. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Lots of MOOC PR appeared in the news this week. ” “What if MOOCs Revolutionize Education After All?”

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Education MOOC Company Report 43

Hack Education

APRIL 6, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Via Education Week : “ FCC Chair Moves to Block E-Rate Funds for Companies Deemed ‘Security Risk’ ” (State and Local) Education Politics. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”).

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Education MOOC E-rate Facebook 45

Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

” asks WaPo’s Valerie Strauss, before reprinting an article by UVA professor Dan Willingham.). “5 Reasons Why e-textbooks in Egypt Would Be Inequitable” by Maha Bali. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Online education pioneer Tony Bates asks “ What is online learning ?”

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Education E-rate Company Kaplan 47

Hack Education

JUNE 2, 2017

” No disclosure in the article that Edsurge shares investors with both these companies. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Here’s a link to all the stories in Slate’s series on online credit recovery programs. “After the Hype, Do MOOC Ventures Like edX Still Matter?”

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Education MOOC Report Company 49

Hack Education

MAY 20, 2016

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). “ Strayer University Sees Success With Predictive Analytics in Online Learning,” Edsurge contends in an article showcasing how the for-profit Strayer and Civitas Learning track students’ behavioral data. Data, Privacy, and Surveillance.

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Education Pearson Report Company 46

Hack Education

AUGUST 10, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Via Edsurge : “Why the FCC ’s E-rate Makes Funding High-Speed Internet a Slow Crawl.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Times published teachers’ ratings.

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E-rate Education Robotics Elsevier 44

Hack Education

JULY 27, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” (Juul is an e-cigarette that markets its product to teens and peddles social emotional learning content.). Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). National) Education Politics. ” Don’t worry.

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Education MOOC Coursera E-rate 43

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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Via Campus Technology : “ AP Exam Pass Rates Rise Even as Participation Doubles.” ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via the Iowa City Press-Citizen : “ Iowa families foregoing classroom for virtual school.” E-Sports Make A Play For The Big Ten.” ” Wheee.

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Education Khan Academy Robotics MOOC 47

Hack Education

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Class Central : “ XuetangX : A Look at China’s First and Biggest MOOC Platform.” This is an old article on Medium but it’s worth reposting in light of this story: “The Dirty Little Secrets About The Worst Coding Bootcamps Out There.

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Education Company Pearson E-rate 40

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Via The Verge : “ Juul has 60 days to prove it can keep its e-cigs away from kids, FDA warns.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Class Central : “ Monetizing A MOOC Platform.”

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Education MOOC Blackboard E-rate 56

Hack Education

JANUARY 18, 2017

The Department of Justice , 21 states, and the District of Columbia have reached a $864 million settlement with Moody’s Investors Service over the company’s role in faulty credit ratings that led to the financial crisis of 2008. Via the IEEE Spectrum : “How the Pioneers of the MOOC Got It Wrong.”

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Education Pearson E-rate MOOC 40

Hack Education

APRIL 27, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. For your “yes, Microsoft is still horrible files,” this from The Washington Post : “ E-waste recycler Eric Lundgren loses appeal on computer restore disks, must serve 15-month prison term.” National) Education Politics.

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Education Facebook Company MOOC 44

Hack Education

MARCH 16, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill : “If At First You Don’t Succeed, Try To Be An OPM : Conversion of for-profits and MOOCs.” Memos from HR.

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Education MOOC Company Report 47

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NOVEMBER 4, 2016

” Via The Recorder : “Four cities including Boston could face downgrades in their bond ratings if state voters approve an expansion of charter schools, a major credit rating agency suggested this week.” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). In other words, MOOCs are now gym memberships.

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Education MOOC E-rate Company 40

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

“ From the article that ”innovative teaching practice" appears to be project-based learning. ” The article is accompanied by a photo of a classroom full of Asian students – as if Asian is not American. Among the articles , “ The Case(s) Against Personalized Learning.” For-Profit Colleges.”

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Education Facebook Company Report 46

Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2017

EDITED TO ADD: Apparently, The Guardian article is not quite right. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” edX is offering an online master’s degree with Georgia Tech : an OMS (online master’s in science) in Analytics. The Economist on “ The Return of the MOOC.”

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MOOC Education Robotics Report 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

And then there were MOOCs , of course, and all those predictions and all those promises about the end of college as we know it: “MOOCs make education borderless, gender-blind, race-blind, class-blind and bank account-blind” and similar fables. Vive la MOOC Révolution. Adam Medros became edX’s president and COO.

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Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

” “Schools, Libraries Miss Out on Millions in E-Rate Funds,” according to EdTech Magazine – some $245 million for the 2014 fiscal year. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). From this article, I learned that Sal Khan earns more than $540,000 a year. ” Oh.

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Coursera Education E-rate Company 61

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FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Via NPR : “ Betsy DeVos ’ Graduation Rate Mistake.” So, no doubt, were several articles by and about Emory University professor Mark Bauerlein and his defense of Trump and DeVos. ” Via The Consumerist : “New Chairman Orders FCC To Abandon Court Defense Of Rule Limiting Prison Phone Rates.”

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Education MOOC E-rate Robotics 40

Hack Education

JUNE 8, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Via E&E News : “ Cabinet heads told to praise Paris exit. ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Pacific Standard : “ Suicide Rates Have Increased Across the U.S.

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Khan Academy Education Facebook E-rate 46

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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Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

” Via Real Clear Education : “Connecting Schools to the Future: Rethinking E-Rate.” ” The chain in question: Celerity Educational Group. ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “ Coursera ’s New Strategy Takes Inspiration From Netflix – and LinkedIn.”

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Education Coursera Robotics E-rate 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 8, 2016

” 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.,” college testing scam , to be deported.” The company has raised $38.5

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