Hack Education

APRIL 30, 2020

The company was founded in 1998 by UC Berkeley doctoral students who were concerned about cheating in the science classes they taught. Is it the vast corpus of data that the company has amassed — decades of essays and theses and Wikipedia entries that it uses to assess student work? The company works both ends of the plagiarism market.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

Check out our growing list of MOOCs and Courses on the EdSurge Index. As for your social profiles such as Facebook and Instagram, previous wisdom used to to be to hide any trace that a hiring manager could find. First things first: make sure to do thorough research on the company before you interview.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Meanwhile, hiring managers were asking for actual skillsets so the kids could come in and hit the ground running, particularly as companies dropped a lot of their in-house training programs in those years right after the recession. They have to know social media. They have to have great facility with all the latest technologies.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2016

The teams usually responsible for corporate learning within companies, human resources, are also undergoing a period of change as they identify areas where they need to come up to speed to deliver the most tangible results for their companies. Learners are now demanding that they are educated in a way that works for them.

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Hack Education

JULY 7, 2017

” Some of these experimental sites included MOOCs and coding bootcamps. Via The Washington Post : “SEC settles fraud charges against defunct for-profit college company ITT.” Because honestly, where else would you put news about that private school company but in the surveillance section.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

He’s credited with co-teaching the first MOOC in 2008, introduced the theory of “connectivism”—the idea that knowledge is distributed across digital networks—and spearheaded research projects about the role of data and analytics in education. Blogs, wikis and social media, on the other hand, are distributed across networks.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 20, 2014

I’m especially interested in social media that can be used to go beyond the often institutional centric LMS systems. Thus, educators need to experiment with new pedagogies and see how older approaches to teaching can be adopted to take advantage of the affordances of new media. What are your views on MOOCs?

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 27, 2016

3) How are MOOCs and other massive open study opportunities changing or influencing out thinking as educators? Are we in danger of being left behind if our organisation/institution is not involved in MOOCs? What can we learn from the open and free social media tools we use? 4) Is open content truly 'free'?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2017

” São Paulo has approved a bill that would allow companies to manufacture school uniforms and sell branding and sponsorship opportunities on the clothing. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). A call to rebrand MOOCs , from Edsurge. The company, formerly known as SlideRule, has raised $11.2

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 16, 2015

blogs, social media, learning objects, OERs, MOOCs, etc in this period. I think many MOOCs (and MOOC providers) will struggle to find a sustainable financial model in their current guise. 5) What is your response to the criticism of MOOCs (e.g. 5) What is your response to the criticism of MOOCs (e.g.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 8, 2015

This leads to the “innovator’s dilemma,” described recently in The Economist as “the difficult choice an established company faces when it has to choose between holding onto an existing market by doing the same thing a bit better, or capturing new markets by embracing new technologies and adopting new business models.”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

High School seniors (left to right) Hayley Striegel, Olivia Poplawski, Cheri Zheng-Fredericks and Julie Pignataro look for ways to verify information they’ve encountered on social media. My students are all about social media. My students are all about social media. Northport, N.Y.,

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Mostly tutoring companies.). “ ICE officials have invited tech companies, including Microsoft , to develop algorithms that will track visa holders’ social media activity ,” ProPublica reports. ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” The University of Iceland has joined edX.

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 12, 2016

I asked about how Jim’s company, Reclaim Hosting , is doing. One mentioned that their institution used to host WordPress locally, but is now exploring externally hosted social media (Twitter, Facebook, Google+, etc). He criticized the allure of universal solutions and totalizing narratives (the LMS, the MOOC).

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 12, 2016

I asked about how Jim’s company, Reclaim Hosting , is doing. One mentioned that their institution used to host WordPress locally, but is now exploring externally hosted social media (Twitter, Facebook, Google+, etc). He criticized the allure of universal solutions and totalizing narratives (the LMS, the MOOC).

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2018

Has the MOOC revolution come and gone? Or will the principles of the MOOC movement continue to influence higher ed? On Tuesday, April 10 the #DLNchat community got together to discuss and debate: How Have MOOCs Impacted Approaches to Student Learning? How many MOOCs have you signed up for and how many have you taken?”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Some of the podcasters got their start making educational videos or or producing MOOCs, those free online classes that were all the rage a few years ago, but ended up not living up to the hype. That’s the case for Davis, who for several years was a producer of video classes for HarvardX, Harvard’s MOOC production wing. “I

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

At the time, I wrote about the importance of APIs; the issues surrounding data security and privacy; the appeal of platforms for users and businesses; and the education and tech companies who were well-positioned (or at least wanting) to become education platforms. ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Tom Webster, the VP of strategy at the market research firm Edison Research, argued that the report should be viewed as “an extremely effective piece of content marketing,” pointing to the number of slides that cite data about or by a portfolio company of Meeker’s employer, the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Smith Caulfield.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Via The Independent : “13-year-old girl arrested after contacting clown on social media and asking him to kill her teacher.” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “Aftermath of the MOOC wars: Can commercial vendors support creative higher education ? Raise $146.1

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

News from the most well-funded ed-tech company, student loan provider SoFi : SoFi settles w/ FTC over allegations it misrepresented how much borrowers save by refinancing. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Really looking forward to this new testing company though! ” LOL, they do?!

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Wired Campus

MARCH 13, 2015

Speaking at a separate session, he cited the increasing flows of data to which colleges have access, including from learning-management systems, student-success systems, and MOOCs. “My Company Watch IT Social Networking Teaching' At the same time, he warned of an overreliance on predictive analytics in guiding students.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 23, 2019

That's what a decade of ed-tech social media and PR have wrought: hashtag gurus and fake news. People with knowledge of the school described it as “run like the company of WeWork, subject to constant changes or ‘disruption,’ sometimes without full consideration for the children these changes impact.” Good work, Adam and Rebekah.

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

” There’s more on legal battles involving student loan companies in the business of financial aid section below. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). The student loan company has raised $803.6 The company, which makes programmable toys, has raised $7.8 The Business of Financial Aid.

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Hack Education

APRIL 3, 2017

” Despite thinking of themselves as liberal-learning, today’s tech companies re-inscribe much of this. What sorts of companies and what sorts of products do venture capitalists like, for example? This is part of the push for MOOCs, we must be honest.). “Disrupt.” ” “Unbundle.”

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Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

.” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ For-Profit Companies With the Highest Enrollments at Their Colleges, Fall 2016.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Gotta keep hyping that MOOC thing. Via Edsurge : “ MOOCs Are No Longer Massive. The company has raised $182.3

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

I’ve called this “the Top Ed-Tech Trends,” but this has never been an SEO-optimized list of products that the ed-tech industry wants schools or parents or companies to buy (or that it claims schools and parents and companies are buying). Beyond the MOOC. Social Media, Campus Activism, and Free Speech.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 19, 2016

One of the big stories this week: the US Department of Education ’s announcement about which “non-traditional providers” ( MOOCs , coding bootcamps ) will be eligible for financial aid as part of its EQUIP experiment. ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Google) biotech company, Calico.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 19, 2018

.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news in the job training section below. ” More news about a data breach at a testing company in the infosec section below. ” The Atlantic on what it’s like being a parent of a social media star.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Each month, I calculate all the venture capital investment that’s gone into education technology, noting who’s invested, the type of company, and so on. Beyond the MOOC. Social Media, Campus Activism, and Free Speech. School and “Skills” MOOCS, Outsourcing, and Online Education.

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Hack Education

JUNE 17, 2016

Securities and Exchange Commission for allegedly sharing five school districts’ private information with an advisory company while it was negotiating for the districts’ contracts.” ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” (Hmm. .” Via The Washington Post : “Former U-Va.

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Hack Education

APRIL 13, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). “ Can a For-Profit, Venture-Backed Company Keep OER Free – and Be Financially Sustainable? The company sells a tablet for use in prison. million for the company – but of that just $15 million is cash; the rest is equity in NetDragon.

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Hack Education

JULY 20, 2018

” At least the e-cigarette company (which targets teens) offers a social-emotional learning curriculum, right? Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news in the credential section below. I mean, clearly the company has a strong grasp on the politics of information.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 5, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). The Atlantic on Logan Paul : “The Social-Media Star and the Suicide.” “A TurboTax for student loan applications” according to Techcrunch, the company has raised $15.5 Amazon Web Services ( AWS ) has joined edX. million total.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2025

Then she got an unwelcome surprise from her loan company. By the 2010s, MIT and others had developed something called the MOOC. MOOCs were a way to teach thousands of students at a time, and they were supposed to revolutionize and democratize higher education. But even he says MOOCs didn’t entirely live up to the hype.

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Hack Education

APRIL 21, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via WCTI12.com ” “ MOOCs Started Out Completely Free. The math tutoring company has previously raised $4.7 Via iNews : “ University to monitor student social media to gauge well-being.” Where Are They Now?”

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Hack Education

JANUARY 5, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ CSU signs deal to record, broadcast classroom lectures,” says the San Francisco Examiner. This prompts a “ disclosure alert ” – a new feature I’m starting this year to call out the financial ties between ed-tech companies. Inevitable.

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