Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2017

MOOC companies typically account for the bump in the “Post-Secondary” category, but aside from Coursera’s $64 million Series D round, few other companies focused in higher education scored a large deal. Slowly but steadily, private equity firms are piecing together assets to create educational data platforms. million in 2017.

EdTech 132

EdTech Pearson Company Knewton 132

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2018

Sure, but the hype around MOOCs, or massive open online courses, said that people would start finding a cheap online replacement for college and that hasn’t happened. First of all in a faster and cheaper universe, you’re going to have to have career discovery at the secondary-school level. You want to data analytics in healthcare?

Secondary 91

Secondary Outcomes Industry MOOC 91

Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2016

Students like Battushig who used free online courses to achieve world-class education motivated players like Coursera and the State Department to launch initiatives like Learning Hubs and MOOC camps from Vietnam to Bolivia. primary and secondary education. In recent years, Latin America has enrolled nearly all students in.

EdTech 60

EdTech Company Secondary Coursera 60

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

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? These proctoring tools gather and analyze far more data than just a student's words, than their responses on an exam. Some track location data, pinpointing where the student is working.

Robotics 87

Robotics Software Company ProctorU 87

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.

Technology 63

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 63

Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 29, 2015

And the MOOC numbers look like they’re rising. Unless the worm turns globally, I’d expect planet MOOC to keep growing in 2016. Primary and secondary schools are a battleground between iPads and Chromebooks, it seems. Big data and data analytics : interest in this is widespread and has some hefty power behind it.

Trends 40

Trends Technology MOOC Education 40

Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 24, 2016

I kicked things off with a survey of major technological developments in a very top level way, then dived into specific, currently used digital tools (the LMS, ePortfolios, video, robotics, big data, social media, 3d printing, etc.). Discussion went in some interesting angles, such as secondary education.

Conference 40

Conference ePortfolio LMS Education 40

Bryan Alexander

APRIL 18, 2016

For example, McGee shares excellent data about the high school graduating population dropping recently, then flatlining for the next decade (23-24). post-secondary education needs closer connections to K-12, especially given demographic and economic changes (126-8). million in fall 1994 to 17.6 ” (!) (13). ” (30).

Analysis 40

Analysis Trends Strategy MOOC 40

Bryan Alexander

APRIL 18, 2016

For example, McGee shares excellent data about the high school graduating population dropping recently, then flatlining for the next decade (23-24). post-secondary education needs closer connections to K-12, especially given demographic and economic changes (126-8). million in fall 1994 to 17.6 ” (!) (13). ” (30).

Analysis 40

Analysis Trends Strategy MOOC 40

NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

SHEG currently offers three impressive curricula that may be put to immediate use in secondary classrooms and libraries. Did you ever wonder how your own students might perform on those dozens of tasks? You can now find out.

Assessment 60

Assessment Analysis Social Media Libraries 60

Wired Campus

MARCH 13, 2015

The event brings together a mix of participants from different parts of education — teachers, administrators, and publishers in elementary, secondary, and higher education. Big data is coming to education, if it’s not here already. Colleges “are making a lot of purchasing decisions on incomplete data,” he said.

Company 28

Company Digital Badges Secondary Conference 28

Wired Campus

APRIL 30, 2015

Freedman: I love where you started with the criticism of the MOOCs. I mean, MOOCs aren’t learning platforms, they’re distribution platforms. So on the flip side of this market, textbook publishers and learning companies lose massive portions of what should be their core revenue stream to this secondary market. Shannon: Sure.

E-rate 28

E-rate Company Course MOOC 28

A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 25, 2013

OER ranges from highly structured college courses (MOOCs) to less structured curricula from colleges and other institutes of learning (OpenCourseWare a/k/a OCW), to free online textbooks, and everything in between. Open educational resources” (OER) here refers to the many free learning resources now populating the Worldwide Web.

OER 259

OER Resources Education Common Core 259

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more data about online education down in the “research” section at the bottom. ” Via Education Week : “Brooklyn Students Protest Use of Online Learning Platform Designed by Summit Learning.” on Coursera.”

Education 55

Education Coursera Facebook MOOC 55

Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Funding data about “learn to code” startups can be found at funding.hackeducation.com. “Hardly Anyone Wants to Take a Liberal Arts MOOC,” Edsurge informed its readers in February. ”) As Data & Society wrote in November , Pay attention to online gig work because it is dramatically reshaping our society.

Technology 89

Technology Education Microsoft Industry 89

Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2016

radio and televisions in the early 20th century and online learning and MOOCs via the Internet in the early 21st century.) Do they opens the door for companies to take the lead on how students learn and how their data is used? make post-secondary options more affordable and accessible through technology enriched delivery models.”

EdTech 60

EdTech Student Data Privacy MOOC Policies 60

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Trump’s education platform promises to “make post-secondary options more affordable and accessible through technology enriched delivery models.” ” “Make MOOCs great again.” Data, Privacy, and Surveillance. Attorney General Cautions Ed-Tech Companies on Data Privacy.” “U.S.

Education 56

Education Common Core Company Facebook 56

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more data about online education enrollments in the research section at the bottom. .” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. There’s more news about ACICS, the accreditor for most for-profit universities, in the accreditation section below.

Education 54

Education LMS Robotics E-rate 54

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). “ MOOCs no longer massive, still attract millions,” Class Central’s Dhawal Shah claims in a VentureBeat op-ed. . “ MOOCs no longer massive, still attract millions,” Class Central’s Dhawal Shah claims in a VentureBeat op-ed.

Khan Academy 40

Khan Academy Education LMS Company 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

AUGUST 10, 2018

Via NPR : Illinois “Lawmakers Looking At How Public Schools Handle Private Data.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Data, Surveillance, and Information Security. There’s a data-related court case in the legal section above. an associate of Leonard’s.”

E-rate 44

E-rate Education Robotics Elsevier 44

Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Many students cannot afford the heavy data usage required by geofencing apps, for starters. Furthermore, at launch, Pokémon Go demanded users sign over a great deal of personal data and grant permissions to the app that, for a time , gave it access to a user’s entire Google account. To data about students’ sexual identity?

Data 40

Data Technology Education Software 40

Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Here’s The Chronicle headline from then : “Professor Leaves a MOOC in Mid-Course in Dispute Over Teaching.”) Good thing I never did anything in those MOOCs, otherwise I'd be losing my work. Data, Privacy, and Surveillance. public schools.”

Education 49

Education MOOC Company Report 49

Hack Education

JULY 8, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Data, Privacy, and Surveillance. From the Berkman Klein Center : “ Privacy and Student Data – An Overview of Federal Laws Impacting Student Information Collected Through Networked Technologies.” Funding and Acquisitions (The Business of Ed-Tech). $0.

Education 50

Education Report Company Coursera 50

Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via The GW Hatchet : “Oversight of online learning programs lacking in some schools, report finds.” “A Kayak for Credentials” – Inside Higher Ed on Credential Engine ’s plans for a big database on post-secondary credentials.

Education 49

Education Coursera MOOC Report 49

Hack Education

DECEMBER 13, 2016

” With all the charges of fraud and deceptive marketing levied against post-secondary institutions this year – from the University of Northern New Jersey too ITT, from Trump University to DevSchool – we might ask if, indeed, this is the way it works. So I thought maybe this is the way it works.” Or it was.).

Technology 40

Technology Education Secondary Pearson 40

Hack Education

OCTOBER 13, 2017

” IPEDS is the government’s database tracking post-secondary education statistics, including enrollments and graduations. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” MOOCs are dead , according to Udacity ’s VP. ” Never one to let a good MOOC story pass them by, Edsurge repeats the story.

MOOC 43

MOOC Education Kaplan Company 43

Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

Senators Introduce Bill to Keep Government Research Data Publicly Available (Preserving Data in Government Act).” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Online education pioneer Tony Bates asks “ What is online learning ?” Via Infodocket : “Two U.S. Increased by just 2, but still.).

Education 47

Education E-rate Company Kaplan 47

Hack Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

” I’ve looked at how for-profit colleges , MOOCs , and learn-to-code companies have tapped into these narratives in order to justify their products and services. These have all been separate articles in each series. “More Americans just need the right training.” weird that, eh?) Training Ed-Tech.

Robotics 60

Robotics MOOC Training Industry 60

Hack Education

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Jeb Bush’s lieutenant governor, as assistant secretary of elementary and secondary education, the top post at the Education Department overseeing K–12 policy.” Department of Education this week released new federal loan data showing that 4.6 MOOCs are out. ” The Business of Student Loans. Or something.

Education 51

Education Kaplan Robotics E-rate 51