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Large-scale courses known as MOOCs were invented to get free or low-cost education to people who could not afford or get access to traditional options. Duke University was one of the first institutions to draw on MOOCs in response to the novel coronavirus. Other MOOC providers are making similar offers.
In past MOOCs, authors engaged in Twitter chats, had guest speakers via YouTube, prompted educators to share their reflections through blogs and Facebook groups and challenged participants to create a weekly visual of their learning. Local community makerspaces, libraries and universities are all possible allies.
A recent visit to my old high school library left me disappointed. In fact, aside from the predictable few flickers of Facebook and Twitter, it seemed most of the students were actually working on something productive. Gone were the days of handwritten flashcards and ten-pound textbooks. But the technology itself was not my concern.
Plus, it sounded a lot like a MOOC (short for “massive open online courses”)—free courses designed for thousands of students that were all the rage a few years ago, but which today are seen as having fallen far short of the hype. It’s a new kind of MOOC, and it’s a new kind of philosophy,” he says.
My own father, now 84 years old, started a Facebook account so he could keep in touch with distant relatives in such places as New Zealand and Australia. Many of us regularly communicate with multiple Twitter and Facebook friends and acquaintances instantaneously even though they may be in another country. The stories go on and on.
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Educational technology : I noted stories about MOOCs growing, social media, 3d printing stretching across the curriculum, brainstorming about VR and automation. Patrice (Cornell University) raised two topics: data analytics for learning, and MOOCs based on sustainability activism. Participants spoke to early childhood computing.
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I was inspired, I think, to select that topic because talk of “platforms” was incredibly popular in Silicon Valley – it had been for a while – as companies strove to become “the next Facebook.” ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. Think Facebook.
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Can high-school kids check the authenticity of an alarming image posted on Facebook? We live in a world where our library begins with G,” Wineburg said, for Google, and the Common Core’s push for evidence-based reasoning falls flat if students trust everything that pops up in their Google search results. Will they seek corroboration?
” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” The University of Iceland has joined edX. ” Via ProPublica : “ Facebook (Still) Letting Housing Advertisers Exclude Users by Race.” ” This seems to fly in the face of the library profession ’s belief in privacy.
” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via The New York Times : “‘I Don’t Really Want to Work for Facebook.’ ” The Scholarly Kitchen weighs in on layoffs at DPLA , the Digital Public Library of America. on Coursera.” ” (deeplearning.ai
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Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via the Coursera blog : “New mobile features: Transcripts, notes, and reminders.” " It’s lovely to see the big innovation from the MOOC startups in 2017 involves the learning management system. ” Udacity has updated its online "classroom."
” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). MOOC hype deja vu.). Via ProPublica , the first in its “Breaking the Black Box” series: “What Facebook Knows About You.” The University of Newcastle has joined edX. Udacity has launched a VR nanodegree. A Master's Degree for a Mere $7,000.”
” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “ Andrew Ng , Co-Founder of Coursera , Returns to MOOC Teaching With New AI Course.” Jen Howard on “What Happened to Google’s Effort to Scan Millions of University Library Books ?” ” More via Wired.
” “Make MOOCs great again.” ” Speaking of Peter Thiel, “ Mark Zuckerberg : Facebook fake news didn’t sway election,” USA Today reports from the Techonomy conference. Here’s a list of election outcomes pertaining to library-related measures , thanks to EveryLibrary.org.
A New York district court awarded Elsevier US$15 million in damages for copyright infringement by Sci-Hub , the Library of Genesis (LibGen) project and related sites.” “Mark Zuckerberg just unveiled Facebook ’s new mission statement,” says The Verge. ” More via The Chronicle of Higher Education.
In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That). Siegler: “ The End of the Library.” The Internet has “replaced the importance of libraries as a repository for knowledge.
” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Via Techcrunch : “ Facebook launches a digital literacy library aimed at educators.” Class Central writes that “ Y Combinator’s Startup School MOOC To Give Out $10,000 to 100 Companies.” ” JFC.
Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Lots of MOOC PR appeared in the news this week. ” “What if MOOCs Revolutionize Education After All?” “Now that MOOCs are mainstream, where does online learning go next?” And more on MOOCs in the credentialing section below as well.
” Via PBS Newshour : “GOP reinstates usage of ‘ illegal alien ’ in Library of Congress ’ records.” And The Next Web headline makes for… something: “ Facebook and Google could be allowed to award university degrees.” ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”).
Here we are with a President-Elect – a reality TV star – who has been supported by white nationalists, the KKK, Wikileaks, trolls, and Peter Thiel, who election was facilitated through a massive misinformation campaign spread virally through Facebook. Beyond the MOOC. MOOCs and Anti-MOOCs. The Digital Library.
Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Libraries remain relevant, and The New York Times is on it. I try to avoid the viral videos of Black men being murdered, but I clicked on the Facebook feed of his girlfriend, broadcasting live from the front seat of the car. A trend , perhaps, to watch.).
“ Google , Facebook , Verizon , Comcast and AT&T each contributed $200,000 to a committee opposing the proposed ballot measure, and lobbyists had estimated that businesses would spend $100 million to campaign against it before the November election.” ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”).
“ New York City libraries have announced they plan to forgive the late fees of all children aged 17 and under in a one-time amnesty event,” The AP reports. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via The GW Hatchet : “Oversight of online learning programs lacking in some schools, report finds.”
The elimination of funding for 18 other independent agencies , including the National Endowment for the Arts , the Corporation for Public Broadcasting , the National Endowment for the Humanities , and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Via Reuters : “ Apple , Google , Facebook skip legal challenge to new travel ban.”
Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news from Edsurge in the “job training” section below. There’s more MOOC news from Edsurge in the “job training” section below. ” ( Not mentioned : Penn was one of the very first investors in Coursera.).
” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Big HR news about Coursera in the HR section below. Here’s the headline from Inside Higher Ed : “For-Credit MOOC: Best of Both Worlds at MIT ?” ” But if you look closer, it’s not a MOOC; it’s just an online class at MIT.
Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “That Hilarious Tweet About an Instructor’s Big Mistake? ” Not sure how popular Facebook and Summit Public Schools ’ “personalized learning” platform is, for what it’s worth.
” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “Should Online Courses Go Through ‘Beta Testing’?” NPR on MOOC Micromasters. Via the Naples Daily News : “ East Naples teacher reassigned after Facebook post about immigrants.” ” asks Edsurge. Disclosure alert.).
There was a regularly updated Facebook page, a Twitter account, as well as a LinkedIn profile for its supposed president. ” MOOCs for credit. .” ” MOOCs for credit. Diplomas issued by Facebook. There’s a hint, perhaps, in this Bloomberg headline: “ Want a Job in Silicon Valley? For fun. (
” Via The Atlantic : “The Libraries Bringing Small-Town News Back to Life.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). It’s baaaaack: “Return of the MOOC ,” The City Journal tells us. There’s some (sorta) MOOC-related news in the venture funding section below.
“Free College” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Bard College opens its second ‘microcollege’ in Brooklyn Public Library. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). “ Facebook Funded Most of the Experts Who Vetted Messenger Kids ,” Wired’s Nitasha Tiku reports.
” Via The New York Times : “ Kremlin Cash Behind Billionaire’s Twitter and Facebook Investments.” ” Via The Guardian : “ Russia funded Facebook and Twitter investments through Kushner associate.” Facebook breaks democracy and then turns around and sells you the fix. For-Profit Colleges.”
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” (Did you know he recorded his first mixtape at the Chicago Public Library’s YOUmedia studio ?). Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Inside Higher Ed on online education at Simmons College. More on MOOC and online education research in the research section below. ” asks NPR.
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