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” Tutoring is the cornerstone of technological fantasies about “personalizedlearning.” Perhaps the biggest acquisition of the year was Edmodo. million for Edmodo – only about $15 million of which was cash. Vive la MOOC révolution. ACT and TurnItIn both bought two. ( It was big as in bad.
.” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) ”) It was certainly the outcome that investors were hoping for Edmodo , which raised $25 million in 2012, boasting that it had 15 million users. Remember Edmodo?
” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” The University of Iceland has joined edX. Via Education Week : “Why Neuroscience Should Drive PersonalizedLearning ” – because of “the propagation of myths and misinformation.” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed.
Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning. In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. MOOCs are, no surprise, their own entry on this long list of awfulness. For a time, Edmodo was quite the ed-tech industry darling.
This is part of the push for MOOCs, we must be honest.). ” I made that selection in part because several ed-tech companies indicated that year that this was what they hoped to become – the MOOC startups, for example, as well as Edmodo, a social network marketed to K–12 schools. A failure to “platform.”
” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). MOOC news is now much more often “job training” news, so there’s more on MOOCs in that section below. ” Via the Google blog : “Learn with Google AI: Making ML education available to everyone.”
” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Inside Higher Ed : “Lessons Learned From a Consortium That Fizzled.” ” A MOOC consortium , that is, with member institutions Davidson College , Colgate University , Hamilton College , and Wellesley College. .”
” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “Why Haven’t MOOCs Eliminated Any Professors?” He’s referring to “ personalizedlearning ,” but might as well be any buzzword when you frame the headline that way, bud.). ” asks IHE blogger Joshua Kim. ”).
Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). “Can Venture Capital Put PersonalizedLearning Within Reach of All Students?” It’s so revealing how this is framed – the problem with “personalizedlearning” up ’til now? “Is Estonia the new Finland ?”
Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Slate : “ The New Diploma Mills.” A report from VC firm GSV Acceleration : “It’s a Breakout: Capital Flows In the Learning and Talent Technology Market.” ” Man, Zuckerberg’s plans for personalizedlearning are gonna be so swell.
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