Hack Education

JUNE 17, 2016

John Bel Edwards has agreed to a mandate that cursive writing must be taught in Louisiana ’s public school classrooms.” Headline changed from “ Coursera ’s Update Will Eliminate Hundreds of Courses” to “Coursera’s Update Will Migrate Hundreds of Courses to a New Platform.”

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JANUARY 19, 2018

Classrooms.” Via Techcrunch : “ Google and Coursera launch program to train more IT support specialists.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via Geek Dad : “Little Robot Friends Teach Kids to Code With Empathy.” Via Politico : “How China Infiltrated U.S. ” asks Edsurge.

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APRIL 7, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via the Coursera blog : “ Coursera now offers free trials for most Specializations.” ” “Have Silicon Valley Teachers Using Technology Daily Altered Their Classroom Practice?” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Remember MOOCs?

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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.” ” The New York Times on “ mastery based learning ” : “A New Kind of Classroom: No Grades, No Failing, No Hurry.”

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DECEMBER 22, 2016

” “ The Most Popular Courses of 2016 ” on Coursera. Edsurge rewrites Coursera’s infographic – because journalism – about which classes are popular in “red states” and which ones are popular in “blue states.” “Could robots be marking your homework ?”

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MARCH 17, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “A Corporate Learning Revolution” – a Coursera webinar. ” In other Google news, Google now allows anyone to use Google Classroom , even those without a GAFE account. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Are MOOCs webinars?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

.” Note the significant difference in language in this headline from The Verge , for example – “ Harvard’s Root robot teaches kids how to code ” – and the way in which Seymour would describe the LOGO Turtle – that students would using programming to teach the robot.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

.” Via the AP : “A judge ruled Friday that school districts [in Florida ] can’t hold 3rd graders back just because they score badly on a mandated standardized reading test, saying that classroom grades and teacher evaluations have to be considered.” Robots probably won’t take your jobs. million total.

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JUNE 16, 2018

” ECOT is the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow, an online charter school company. ” From the Coursera blog : “ Coursera for Business Is Now Available to Small and Medium-Sized Businesses.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” Via The Evolllution : “ Bootcamps Go To College.”

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APRIL 14, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via the Coursera blog : “New mobile features: Transcripts, notes, and reminders.” ” Udacity has updated its online "classroom." ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Spoiler alert: humans.

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DECEMBER 7, 2018

” Via Chalkbeat : “New early learning initiative brings Sesame Street lessons into Memphis classrooms.” Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill analyzes a recent interview with Coursera ’s CEO and argues the MOOC provider is “betting on OPM market and shift to low-cost masters degrees.”

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NOVEMBER 17, 2017

More on the Republicans’ tax plans – Via Education Week : “New Senate Tax Plan Doubles Teachers’ Deduction for Buying Classroom Supplies.” Coursera announces on its blog that it’s expanding to Brazil. Here’s Coursera arguing “Why Everyone Should Learn Sales.”

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Via the AP : “A South Carolina solicitor says a sheriff’s deputy will face no charges for tossing a student across a classroom after she refused to put away her cellphone.” ” The school in question: the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow. ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”).

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FEBRUARY 2, 2018

” Via the AP : “Two students were shot and wounded, one critically, inside a Los Angeles middle school classroom Thursday morning and police arrested a female student believed to be 12 years old, authorities said.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. This Week in Betteridge’s Law of Headlines.

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JANUARY 26, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “ Coursera ’s New Strategy Takes Inspiration From Netflix – and LinkedIn.” ” Via the Coursera blog : “Announcing Coursera for Governments & Nonprofits.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2018

What Happens in My Classroom During a Lockdown Drill Should Horrify Americans,” writes K. Imperial College London will teach a class on artificial intelligence on the Coursera platform. Wikispaces Classroom (and free wikis from the company, now owned by TES ) joins the ed-tech dead pool. Katzmann in The Trace.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Here is venture capital well spent: “ Coursera Promotes Its ‘Affordable Online Courses’ With New TV Ad Spots ,” says Class Central. I’m not sure why Inc calls ClassDojo “Slack for Classrooms” when it’s really much more “operant conditioning and surveillance for schools.”

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MARCH 10, 2017

” Via The Financial Times : “ Coursera chief on the future of online learning and the Trump era.” ” New Nanodegrees from Udacity : Digital Marketing and Robotics. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Robots hate the Common Core. More on the politics of online education in the politics section above.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Via The Washington Post : “Influential conservative group: Trump, DeVos should dismantle Education Department and bring God into classrooms.” ” The provider in question is Coursera , which has raised some $146.1 ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” More via WaPo and Buzzfeed. ” asks Edsurge.

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MAY 25, 2018

” IHE blogger Joshua Kim offers “25 Million Reasons Why LinkedIn / Microsoft Will Buy Coursera.” ” “The One-Teacher, One-Classroom Model Needs an Upgrade,” says Edsurge. ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” “ Cyber Charters in at Least 5 States Face Closure.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

” ECOT is the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow, an online charter school. ” Via Campus Technology : “ Coursera ’s CEO on the Evolving Meaning of ‘MOOC’ ” There’s more ECOT news – there’s always more ECOT news – in the “state and local politics” section above. .”

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Hack Education

MARCH 9, 2018

” An “innovation pod” is actually a private classroom in a shipping container. In Move Towards More Online Degrees, Coursera Introduces Its First Bachelor ’s.” “ Coursera More than Doubles Number of Degrees on Its Platform,” says Campus Technology. Excellent re-branding.

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JULY 1, 2016

“ Robots won’t replace teachers because they can’t inspire us.” ” That’s the headline describing a conversation between Recode and Coursera ’s Daphne Koller. Also via NPR : “From YouTube Pioneer Sal Khan , A School With Real Classrooms.” ” Try learning styles, maybe.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2017

” The article is accompanied by a photo of a classroom full of Asian students – as if Asian is not American. ” For those keeping track of how ed-tech is intertwined in all this, here’s a list of Yuri Milner ’s education investments : 17zuoye, Remind, Coursera, Clever, Codecademy, ClassDojo, and General Assembly.

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MAY 5, 2017

.” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ Marquette University was justified in disciplining a professor who had publicly rebuked a graduate teaching assistant over her handling of classroom discussions of homosexuality, a state judge ruled on Thursday.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” From the HR Department.

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DECEMBER 8, 2016

” “ Coursera Monthly Subscriptions Channel Lynda and Pluralsight ,” says EduKwest’s Kirsten Winkler. ” “What If We Stopped Calling Them Classrooms ?” Via Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill : “ UT Austin and SMOCs: What these synchronous courses look like and cost.”

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Hack Education

JUNE 9, 2017

That seems to be Coursera ’s business model. ” The Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow has been in trouble with Ohio about how it reports attendance. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. The New York Times profiles the teacherless coding bootcamp Holberton. Details on the investment in the business of ed-tech section below.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The Flipped Classroom". It was probably Sal Khan’s 2011 TED Talk “Let’s Use Video to Reinvent Education” and the flurry of media he received over the course of the following year or so that introduced the idea of the “flipped classroom” to most people. WTF is Unizin ?! Collared Dove. Ban Laptops" Op-Eds. They’re distracted.

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OCTOBER 19, 2018

Via Forbes : “This Company Could Be Your Next Teacher: Coursera Plots A Massive Future For Online Education.” ” Coming soon to a “flexible classroom” near you: “ Panasonic’s human blinkers help people concentrate in open-plan offices,” says Dezeen. The robot presents as a black female?

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Hack Education

MARCH 24, 2017

Via The USA Today : “Kids on winning robotics team told, ‘Go back to Mexico’ ” The kids were from Pleasant Run Elementary School in Indianapolis. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ Coursera Removes Biometric Identity Verification Using Keystroke Matching,” Class Central reports.

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JULY 27, 2018

Via Edsurge : “ Coursera ’s First Ivy League Degree: An Online Master’s From the University of Pennsylvania.” ” ( Not mentioned : Penn was one of the very first investors in Coursera.). classrooms in new deal with McGraw-Hill Education.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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MARCH 31, 2017

.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Inside Higher Ed : “Online education platform Coursera has set a goal of offering 15 to 20 degree programs by the end of 2019. ” Via Edsurge : “ Coursera ’s Rick Levin on the Evolution of MOOCs and Microcredentials.”

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MAY 26, 2017

” According to this Techcrunch article , MOOCs like Udacity and Coursera weren’t working out for AirBnB so now it is “running its own internal university to teach data science.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Via Edsurge : “Would You Like Higher Ed With That? ” Insert shrug emoji here.

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