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Thursday, February 27th at 11am Creating Connected Learners Through Virtual Exchange: Assessing the Impact of Virtual Exchange , Part of a month-long webinar series co-hosted by the Exchange 2.0 Following recent conversations about the assessment capacity of MOOCs, this is a great topic! For more information, click here.
.” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) ”) It was certainly the outcome that investors were hoping for Edmodo , which raised $25 million in 2012, boasting that it had 15 million users. Remember Edmodo?
This is part of the push for MOOCs, we must be honest.). ” I made that selection in part because several ed-tech companies indicated that year that this was what they hoped to become – the MOOC startups, for example, as well as Edmodo, a social network marketed to K–12 schools. A failure to “platform.”
Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). The big “business of ed-tech” news of the week: Edmodo has been acquired by Chinese game-maker NetDragon. Edmodo had raised some $77.5 The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. More on the accreditation of for-profits in the accreditation section below.
” That’s the Collegiate Learning Assessment exam (a.k.a. ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “Why Haven’t MOOCs Eliminated Any Professors?” But this isn’t the first time Edmodo’s had security issues , incidentally.)
” “ Northwest Evaluation Association To Enter State Assessment Market,” says Education Week. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). “ Can Edmodo Turn Virality into Profitability? Educator’s Assessment Data Management System ( EADMS ) is merging with IO Education.
” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” A MOOC consortium , that is, with member institutions Davidson College , Colgate University , Hamilton College , and Wellesley College. .” ” “ AI and Assessment ” by Donald Clark.
In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. In 2013, on the heels of “the Year of the MOOC,” Barber released a report titled “An Avalanche is Coming,” calling for the “unbundling” of higher education. For a time, Edmodo was quite the ed-tech industry darling.
” Via Education Week : “Market Is Booming for Digital Formative Assessments.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Slate : “ The New Diploma Mills.” ” An update from Edmodo ’s CEO about the company’s recent security breach and advertising program.
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