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Hack Education
NOVEMBER 24, 2017
“ ICE officials have invited tech companies, including Microsoft , to develop algorithms that will track visa holders’ social media activity ,” ProPublica reports. ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” The University of Iceland has joined edX. ” “ Pearson , WTF?
Hack Education
DECEMBER 31, 2018
Neither Pearson nor Blackboard, companies that were quite active in gobbling up startups a year or so ago, bought a single company this year. Microsoft bought three companies in 2018. ” (Its MOOC competitor edX also announced this year that many of its courses would no longer be free.) Vive la MOOC révolution.
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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. Pearson is Not a Platform. Pearson does not have a platform.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 29, 2017
Although no doubt, Microsoft, now the owner of Minecraft, would like us all to repeat that particular storyline.) Pearson, for one.) That this is how a venture capitalist would characterize the future of education is, nonetheless, quite notable. This year, Yik Yak shut down, despite having raised some $73 million in venture funding.
Hack Education
APRIL 3, 2017
It ignores what happens in Seattle: the home of Amazon, Microsoft, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Turns out that Pearson, which once funded and acquired a lot of startups, isn’t in particularly good financial shape itself.). This is part of the push for MOOCs, we must be honest.).
Hack Education
APRIL 13, 2018
“Publishers Wiley , Cengage , Pearson and McGraw-Hill Education have won a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against a seller of fake textbooks ,” Inside Higher Ed reports. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). “ Apple and Microsoft Now Offer $100 Styluses. The seller: Book Dog Books.
Hack Education
JUNE 10, 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 Education Dive.
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