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Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics: Some Thoughts from ASU+GSV

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Remember, if you will, the insistence from the University of Virginia Board of Visitors that school was missing the “coming MOOC tsunami” based on columns they’d read in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. ” There was all the usual talk of job-stealing robots and the “ jobs that don’t exist yet.”

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Robot Teachers, Racist Algorithms, and Disaster Pedagogy

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Many of these companies were launched circa 2013 — that is, in the tailwinds of "the Year of the MOOC" — with the belief that an increasing number of students would be learning online and that professors would demand some sort of mechanism to verify their identity and their integrity. That robot grading is degrading.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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” 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. The Chromebooks are not fully-functioning laptops.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). “ Should Children Form Emotional Bonds With Robots? I just have zero time right now to weigh in on the “ ban laptops ” debates. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Kiwicampus : a robot delivery service on campus. “Huh?”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via the Coursera blog : “ Coursera now offers free trials for most Specializations.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” “ Robots Are Changing The World,” says edX , which hopes to sell you on some classes on robots. .”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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From The Express Tribune in Pakistan : “Around 500,000 laptops are likely to be distributed among talented and deserving students by the year 2020, according to Prime Minister Youth Programme Chairwoman Leila Khan.” ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”).

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via The Verge : “ OLPC ’s $100 laptop was going to change the world – then it all went wrong.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. And some follow-up from Tressie McMillan Cottom.).