iPad MOOC Robotics 
EdTechTeacher
NOVEMBER 18, 2015
As a researcher, Justin has been carrying this concept into his work with MOOCs. To begin, Justin recommends reading Frank Levy and Richard Murnane’s work, Dancing with Robots. Computers can increasingly solve routine tasks, so the question becomes, what are the kinds of things that computers and robots can’t do.
TeachThought - Learn better.
JULY 8, 2015
The relative shrinking marketshare of iPads, as well as some very visible failure of iPad rollouts. Robotics in the classroom. MOOCs, nanodegrees, etc. metrics of “school success” which causes parents to question how learning effectiveness is measured (see also #20).
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Hack Education
OCTOBER 20, 2018
The iPad was going to change everything. MOOCs were going to change everything. My favorite ludicrous claim remains that of Knewton’s CEO who told NPR in 2015 that his company was a “mind reading robot tutor in the sky.” Virtual reality was going to change everything. And on and on and on. ”).
Hack Education
DECEMBER 9, 2017
” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) ” MOOCs looked – for a short while, at least – like they were going to pivot to become LMSes. Students will receive iPads.
Hack Education
NOVEMBER 2, 2016
” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity. Half of those, the firm said, would be iPads. Apple sold just 50 million iPads. The quotation is from 2012.
Hack Education
AUGUST 24, 2018
Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Gotta keep hyping that MOOC thing. Via Edsurge : “ MOOCs Are No Longer Massive. ” Via Class Central : “Class Central’s Top 50 MOOCs of All Time (2018 edition).” ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.
Hack Education
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Via The New York Times : “ Apple Offers Free App to Teach Children Coding (iPads Sold Separately).” The startup, which something something MOOC something something, has raised $9.69 ” More on test scores and ed-tech in the research section below.
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