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How Colleges Can Help Educate the 40-Million-Plus Newly Unemployed

Edsurge

Before joining JFF, Lexi spent nearly a decade in public service at the federal level, including working on Capitol Hill for six years, and serving as a policy advisor to the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education at the U.S. Department of Education. Listen to the conversation below, or read highlights below.

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Notes from Leadership for the Digital Age with Alan November - Day 2

EdTechSandyK

edX - www.edex.org - MOOC site, courses are all free, people who teach the courses are from Harvard, MIT, Berkeley, University of Texas, etc. Coursera is another option for higher ed MOOCS. Close to 10% of students got into MIT by excelling in a MOOC. Click here to see all of them.) What you can say: I like that because.

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STEMxCon - Today Is the Final Deadline for Proposals; Great Keynotes + Sessions; Need Volunteers!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Smith, Director of Programs Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for STEM - Revolutionary or Evolutionary? Gary Bass Meaningful STEM-Based Learning in a University/Elementary School Partnership - Maria D. Anjuli Ahooja, Faculty (AP Physics) Mag-Net a 21st century online community for Australian STEMx educators. Shaheen, Ph.D.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

” (For what it’s worth, Kleiner Perkins made just one major investment in education in 2017, participating in Coursera’s $64 million round this summer. Coursera (online education) –- $64 million. Coursera (online education) – $210.1 Is this really a trend? Would it be valuable to KPCB if it were?”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). “ ‘Top universities to offer full degrees online in five years’ ” says the BBC, citing a prediction made by Coursera ’s Daphne Koller. Testing, Testing… News on testing in the politics section above. ” Institut Mines-Télécom joins edX.

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Driverless Ed-Tech: The History of the Future of Automation in Education

Hack Education

“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. Let me begin with a story. ” The driverless university.

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College Uncovered: Cyber School

The Hechinger Report

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. They were offered by edX and Coursera and many others. But even he says MOOCs didn’t entirely live up to the hype.

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