Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

As this article was being written, the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the world, forcing a global experiment in online education as schools and colleges closed their doors and moved teaching to online formats. That kind of feedback would be perfect if you had a robot learner on the other end,” he says.

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Education Learning Software Knewton 215

TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 8, 2015

” The article goes on to point out some examples of this kind of dilemma, and how certain businesses responded. Robotics in the classroom. MOOCs, nanodegrees, etc. “IBM dealt with this dilemma by launching a new business unit to make PCs, while continuing to make mainframe computers.

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Examples Classroom Maker Movement Social Media 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

” Re-reading that article now makes me cringe. ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) ” MOOCs looked – for a short while, at least – like they were going to pivot to become LMSes.

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 63

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 20, 2014

Harvard’s 1,000 Kilobot swarm demonstrates the future of robotics 50 apps for the new school year Using Design Thinking to Create a School from Scratch Is This The School Library Of The Future? A recent article by T. Mix Up Your Classroom Library. Are you looking forward to making new connections this year?

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Google Game-Based Learning Libraries Conference 52

Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Wonder Workshop (robotics) – $41 million. Robotics , with ~ $99 million in funding. Or one could look at ed-tech companies that laid off staff: the coding bootcamp Galvanize , the analytics company Civitas Learning , the learning management system Schoology , MOOC provider Coursera , the education giant Pearson , for example.

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Trends Coursera Company Personalized Learning 57

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

The stories that I write about the “Top Ed-Tech Trends” are the antithesis of most articles you’ll see about education technology that invoke “top” and “trends.” I don’t believe that robots will take, let alone need take, all our jobs. The quotation is from 2012.

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Trends Report iPhone Software 40

Hack Education

MARCH 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”). ” My favorite part of this article, I think, is where it boasts about how stable Ethiopia is these days. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Her remarks.)

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Education Robotics OER MOOC 47

Hack Education

AUGUST 17, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” (Actually the article is just a promotion for three books penned by people close to Edsurge.). ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. PR gonna PR.

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Education Robotics Facebook Moodle 49

Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 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 Class Central : “A Product at Every Price: A Review of MOOC Stats and Trends in 2017.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

Education 46

Education MOOC Robotics Company 46

Hack Education

JULY 20, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news in the credential section below. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. “ Robots in the classroom ? Because of course.

Education 46

Education MOOC Robotics Company 46

Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2017

“The Year of the MOOC” – I was summoned to Palo Alto, California for a small gathering to discuss the future of teaching, learning, and technology. Perhaps with this data, the MOOC providers can build a map of professional if not cognitive pathways. “Robots are coming for your job.”

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Education Robotics MOOC Company 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Even if these publications fade away , the breathless stories about the possibilities of brainwave-reading mindfulness headbands and " mind-reading robot tutors in the sky " continue to be told. ASU ends its MOOC experiment , Global Freshman Academy. Dangerous practices and products are normalized. Udacity got a new CEO.

Technology 68

Technology Pearson Education MOOC 68

Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

I’d hardly know where to begin in writing one, but I want to open this particular article – one that focuses, in part, on the whole “everyone should learn to code” craze – recognizing his great contribution to educational computing as well as his loss. Read Mindstorms. ” ). Only “1.86

Technology 89

Technology Education Microsoft Industry 89

Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

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.”

Education 50

Education Robotics Company MOOC 50

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 9, 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 Class Central : “ TU Delft Students Can Earn Credit For MOOCs From Other Universities.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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Lenovo Education Facebook MOOC 52

Hack Education

APRIL 13, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” (Note: there’s a response to this article by Georgia Tech professor Ashok Goel, who builds teaching chat-bots, in the “robots” section below.

Education 45

Education Facebook Edmodo OER 45

Hack Education

APRIL 14, 2017

Via The New York Times : “ Rolling Stone Settles Lawsuit Over Debunked Campus Rape Article.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via the Coursera blog : “New mobile features: Transcripts, notes, and reminders.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Education in the Courts.

Education 44

Education E-rate MOOC Data 44

Hack Education

MAY 18, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via Techcrunch : "Starting a robotics company out of school? National) Education Politics. It has raised $69.7

Education 50

Education Company MOOC Report 50

Hack Education

APRIL 21, 2017

.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via WCTI12.com ” “ MOOCs Started Out Completely Free. Disclosure alert : no mention that Edsurge, which published this article, shares an investor with Class Central.). .” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Where Are They Now?”

Education 45

Education MOOC Facebook Report 45

Hack Education

JUNE 1, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. ” LOL.

Education 47

Education Kaplan Robotics Schoology 47

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Via The New York Times : “ Rolling Stone Faces Revived Lawsuit Over Campus Rape Article.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “Peter Thiel May Finally Get His Flying Cars, Thanks to a New Udacity Nanodegree in 2018.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

Education 49

Education Knewton Kaplan Robotics 49

Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Via The Verge : “ Aflac ’s toy robot for kids facing cancer is the smartest toy of all.” National) Education Politics.

Education 43

Education Company Blackboard Kaplan 43

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” The University of Iceland has joined edX. This isn’t a “meanwhile on campus story,” but I’m not sure where else to put articles about sexual harassment and sexual assault. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Will they make it happen? .”

Education 44

Education Khan Academy Company Training 44

Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “ Andrew Ng , Co-Founder of Coursera , Returns to MOOC Teaching With New AI Course.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. .” Via Reuters : “Some U.S. coding boot camps stumble in a crowded field.” ” More via Wired.

Education 46

Education Coursera Khan Academy MOOC 46

Hack Education

JUNE 17, 2016

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” asks The Economist in an article about coding bootcamps. ” Via the Hechinger Report : “Can a wall-climbing robot teach your kid to code?” ” Via the AP : “2 ex- El Paso schools administrators guilty in testing scam.”

Education 50

Education Coursera Microsoft Company 50

Hack Education

JUNE 23, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via The Post and Courier : “ South Carolina ’s online charter schools: A $350 million investment with disappointing returns.” Here’s a sponsored article , paid for by the Gates Foundation and published by Edsurge promoting the school and its technology.).

Education 54

Education Kaplan Pearson Elsevier 54

Hack Education

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Each week for the past eight or so years, I have gathered a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this has fed the series of articles I have written each December, analyzing the stories we have been told about the future of education. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”).

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MOOC Education Elsevier Report 80

Hack Education

DECEMBER 1, 2016

’” Online Education, Beyond “MOOCs” Via Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill : “The Remarkable Transformation at UF Online.” Larry Cuban has another article on AltSchool , which he says marries Dewey and Thorndike. ’ and ‘Has the student used the accommodation(s) for school testing?’”

Education 40

Education Report Android Libraries 40

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. There’s also an article on financial aid and cybersecurity in the data and surveillance section below. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

Education 61

Education MOOC Pearson Blackboard 61

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” The race for the California State Superintendent is still undecided – at least as I type up this article, it is. ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Education in the Courts. on Coursera.”

Education 55

Education Coursera Facebook MOOC 55

Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Apologies that this week this article is a day late. ” 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.

Education 46

Education MOOC Coursera Company 46

Hack Education

MAY 25, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. 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.” National) Education Politics.

Education 46

Education MOOC Social Media Report 46

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”). ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via The New York Times : “Meet Zora, the Robot Caregiver.” National) Education Politics.

Education 54

Education LMS Robotics E-rate 54

Hack Education

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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MOOC Education Company Coursera 48

Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

Via ABC News : “ A defamation lawsuit against Rolling Stone magazine over the magazine’s debunked article about a University of Virginia gang rape was tossed out by a judge Tuesday. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). “ Robots won’t replace teachers because they can’t inspire us.”

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MOOC Education Blackboard OER 48

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. .” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

Education 61

Education MOOC Social Media E-rate 61

Hack Education

AUGUST 10, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. “What if Your Favorite Teacher was a Robot?” National) Education Politics. ” More via Inside Higher Ed.

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E-rate Education Robotics Elsevier 44