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Folks in the crypto space are questioning whether industries can be reimagined to operate in ways that are “less extractive, and more community-owned,” Allen says. New technology could push these questions further by offering people more alternatives to institutions of all kinds. That includes higher education. and between the U.S.
It offers some innovative e-learning services for K-12, higher education and private industry. These venues range from MOOCs (free massive online open courses) to traditional brick-and-mortar public schools. Possibly that situation will change permanently in 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. Remember Richard McKenzie? ” asks Edsurge.
” Challenging forced arbitration clauses has been one way the CFPB has taken on the student loan industry. Via Buzzfeed : “A Close Ally Of Mike Pence Is Helping The Shady Student Debt Relief Industry.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” MOOCs. ” (That’s Marty Obst.).
” Via ProPublica : “ Trump Has Secretive Teams to Roll Back Regulations , Led by Hires With Deep Industry Ties.” What The Oil Industry Teaches Oklahoma Students.” ” Via The New York Times : “In Blow to Tech Industry, Trump Shelves Start-Up Immigrant Rule.” Harder for Foreign Students.”
The technology industry – its products and its politics – furthers inequality, particularly in its own backyard in the Bay Area. If we emphasize the consequences of differential access, we see one facet of the digitaldivide; if we ask about how these consequences are produced, we are asking about digital redlining.
Via WaPo : “The FCC talks the talk on the digitaldivide – and then walks in the other direction.” ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “Should Online Courses Go Through ‘Beta Testing’?” NPR on MOOC Micromasters. ” That’s Gail Heriot.
Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.”
Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news down in the “labor and management” section below. ” Via The Verge : “Tim Cook warns of ‘ data-industrial complex ’ in call for comprehensive US privacy laws.” Indiana University has joined edX.
But you’re full of fallacy yourself if you think that’s going to stop me from making critiques about this industry. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). MOOCs for credit ! Also off campus, not on-: “ Unemployed Detroit Residents Are Trapped by a DigitalDivide.”
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