Mark Smithers

AUGUST 24, 2015

We might just need to provide a bit of training. Take BlackBoard (the name says it all) or any other LMS which simply replicates the structure and format of traditional courses but in an online environment. They’ll produce stuff. They were wrong. Only a small proportion either wanted to do it or could do it.

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Mark Smithers

AUGUST 24, 2015

We might just need to provide a bit of training. Take BlackBoard (the name says it all) or any other LMS which simply replicates the structure and format of traditional courses but in an online environment. They’ll produce stuff. They were wrong. Only a small proportion either wanted to do it or could do it.

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E-rate Learning LMS Course 32

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Teaching at colleges is often done without any formal training. Navy, and the company’s first mission was to train sailors in information technology (IT) support, so they could fix any computer or network problem that a crew at sea might encounter. Simon argued that you would describe the process as “outrageous.” “If

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

EverFi (“critical skills” training): $251 million. Udemy (skills training): $173 million. Udacity (skills training): $160 million. Neither Pearson nor Blackboard, companies that were quite active in gobbling up startups a year or so ago, bought a single company this year. Vive la MOOC révolution.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) The LMS giant Blackboard celebrated its 20th anniversary this year. (I ” 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

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). The Business of Job Training (and the Business of Jobs Giving Educational Benefits for Employees). “The Moodle / Blackboard Breakup: The Long and the Short of It” by e-Literate’s Michael Feldstein. president to retire in wake of football death.”

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Education Company Report IXL Learning 55

Hack Education

APRIL 13, 2018

Via Chalkbeat’s Colorado news desk : “$35 million for school safety will go toward training, but not hiring, of school resource officers.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” The Business of Job Training. ” Privacy law in Illinois , that is.

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Hack Education

JULY 20, 2018

” There’s more news from the White House in the job training section below. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news in the credential section below. Via Class Central : “Analysis of 450 MOOC -Based Microcredentials Reveals Many Options But Little Consistency.”

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Hack Education

JULY 22, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” From the blog : “ Nashville Software School (NSS) is proud to announce that our full-time Web Developer Bootcamp has been approved by the Tennessee State Approving Agency for Veterans Education and Training. “ Blackboard Learn Ultra : Ready or not?”

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Class Central : “ MOOCs May Still Be Reshaping Higher Education, Just Not In the Way That Was Initially Predicted.” There’s more MOOC news in the contests and competition section below. ” “Big Online Courses Have a Problem.

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Education MOOC Pearson Blackboard 61

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). MOOC hype deja vu.). Via Campus Technology: “ CUNY to Train, Hire 2,000 Students in Free Coding Bootcamps.” “This Accessory Makes VR So Real a Surgeon Could Train with It,” says MIT Technology Review. It lives.). million total.

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Education E-rate MOOC Report 40

Hack Education

APRIL 20, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” The Business of Job Training. ” Via Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill : “Comparing the First Ten Years of Blackboard and Instructure in LMS Market.” ” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. ” Contests and Conferences.

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2018

” 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. More “MOOC” news under the job training section below. ” The Business of Job Training. Heatherton. million total.

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Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

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?” “Now that MOOCs are mainstream, where does online learning go next?” And more on MOOCs in the credentialing section below as well.

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Education MOOC Company Report 43

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). The group, which is the primary trade organization for the for-profit sector, is announcing a new campaign to close the skills gap with five million trained professionals.” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Jurors Deadlock in Case of Shooting by U.

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Education Company Data Pearson 40

Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “ Coursera ’s New Strategy Takes Inspiration From Netflix – and LinkedIn.” ” There’s more MOOC-related research in the research section below. The Business of Job Training and Job Placement.

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Education Coursera Robotics E-rate 40

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

JULY 21, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” The LA Times asks , “ In this digital self-help age, just how effective are MasterClass ’s A-list celebrity workshops?” ” Via Education Week : “For Principals, Student Sexting a Speeding ‘Freight Train,’ Full of Peril.”

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Education LMS Robotics Coursera 46

Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

” She promises that every kid will learn to code (of course) by having the private sector train CS teachers. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Elsewhere in MOOC research… From Campus Technology : “Grouping MOOC Students by Communication Mode Doesn’t Help Completion.”

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Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2018

” 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.” ” There’s more MOOC news in the certification section below. I’m also putting some MOOC news in the job training section.

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Education MOOC Robotics Company 46

Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Brown University joins edX. “ Y Combinator MOOC for Tech Startups Attracts Thousands of Views,” says Campus Technology. Not sure why this is called a MOOC. The Business of Job Training. Happy 20th anniversary to Blackboard.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2018

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). The Business of Job Training. “ Blackboard ’s Defense of its Finances is not Persuasive,” writes Michael Feldstein. Also from Feldstein : “ Moodle and Blackboard Cut Ties.” ” JFC. ” The official: Steven G.

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Education Pearson Company Blackboard 43

Hack Education

AUGUST 18, 2017

Meanwhile, in the UK: “ Learndirect training contract withdrawn over standards concerns,” the BBC reports. “Learndirect, which offers apprenticeships and adult training at sites across England, is responsible for almost 73,000 trainees and employs more than 1,600 staff.” The Business of Job Training.

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Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Online education pioneer Tony Bates asks “ What is online learning ?” ” From the press release : “ MOOCs and books initiative launched by Springer and Federica Weblearning.” ” The Business of Job Training. a month.). .”

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Hack Education

MARCH 9, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Vive la MOOC révolution. ” “Orphan MOOCs and the Digital Dark Ages” by Jeffrey Pomerantz in Hybrid Pedagogy. ” There’s more licensing and certification news in the MOOC section above. ” The Business of Job Training.

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Education Kaplan MOOC Coursera 47

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

There are a variety of reasons for this: language barriers, lack of Internet access, incompatible devices, lack of training. 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. Uber for Education". “We You're sexist. Unbundling".

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). In related MOOC news, there's more on “ nanodegrees ” in the “credentialing” section below. ” Via Education Week : “ Teach For America Ends Pre-Training Pilot Focused on Cultural Competency.”

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Education Pearson Report MOOC 53

Hack Education

JULY 27, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news from Edsurge in the “job training” section below. Via The Economist : “Universities withstood MOOCs but risk being outwitted by OPMs.” The Business of Job Training. ” asks Inside Higher Ed.

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Education MOOC Coursera E-rate 43

Hack Education

JUNE 8, 2018

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” That is, the latest from Blackboard announcing a string of changes to executive roles. The Business of Job Training. Education Department show.” Via Edsurge : “ Andrew Ng Is Probably Teaching More Students Than Anyone Else on the Planet.

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