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If I took a class on robotics, I could put the actual robot [coursework] on the chain, not the grade. They include Walmart , Facebook, which changed its name to Meta, and Microsoft, which recently purchased game developer Activision Blizzard for nearly $70 billion, as part of a stated goal to stake a claim in the metaverse.
The first was visiting Microsoft’s “ Education Underground ” and getting a tour of their “Garage”, an extensive makerspace for Microsoft’s employees to tinker and build. I also made wearables, an auto-tweeting bear and got involved with our high school’s First Robotics team.
” Some of these experimental sites included MOOCs and coding bootcamps. Via The Verge : “US denies visas to Afghanistan ’s all-girl robotics team.” Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill follows up on the Edsurge article with his own analysis : “ MOOCs Now Focused on Paid Certificates and OPM Market.”
” 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. Instead, they’ve re-branded as job training sites.
Although no doubt, Microsoft, now the owner of Minecraft, would like us all to repeat that particular storyline.) Wonder Workshop (robotics) – $41 million. Robotics , with ~ $99 million in funding. That this is how a venture capitalist would characterize the future of education is, nonetheless, quite notable.
Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Inside Higher Ed : “Analysis of Georgia Tech ’s MOOC-inspired online master’s in computer science suggests that institutions can successfully deliver high-quality, low-cost degrees to students at scale.” ” “ Robot abuse ”?!
.” Note the significant difference in language in this headline from The Verge , for example – “ Harvard’s Root robot teaches kids how to code ” – and the way in which Seymour would describe the LOGO Turtle – that students would using programming to teach the robot. Only “1.86
Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). “ Apple and Microsoft Now Offer $100 Styluses. ” (Note: there’s a response to this article by Georgia Tech professor Ashok Goel, who builds teaching chat-bots, in the “robots” section below. The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed.
” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Via the Hechinger Report : “Can a wall-climbing robot teach your kid to code?” Microsoft announced it would make its largest acquisition ever, buying LinkedIn for $26.2 The stock’s now trading at $20.26
” Via the BBC : “ Accenture and Microsoft plan digital IDs for millions of refugees.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via The Post and Courier : “ South Carolina ’s online charter schools: A $350 million investment with disappointing returns.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.
Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Just a few weeks after Daphne Koller ’s announcement she was leaving the MOOC startup she co-founded, Coursera unveiled “ Coursera for Business ” this week, marking its pivot from “democratizing higher ed” to “ training corporate employees.”
Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). MOOCs are back in the headlines again. Via Edsurge : “The Second Wave of MOOC Hype Is Here, and It’s Online Degrees.” ” IHE blogger Joshua Kim offers “25 Million Reasons Why LinkedIn / Microsoft Will Buy Coursera.”
“ 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. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.
” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Class Central : “A Product at Every Price: A Review of MOOC Stats and Trends in 2017.” ” There’s more MOOC news in the certification section below. I’m also putting some MOOC news in the job training section.
” Via The Verge : “ Microsoft secures $480 million HoloLens contract from US Army.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “Stop Asking About Completion Rates: Better Questions to Ask About MOOCs in 2019,” says Edsurge. .” State and Local) Education Politics.
Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Brown University joins edX. “ Y Combinator MOOC for Tech Startups Attracts Thousands of Views,” says Campus Technology. Not sure why this is called a MOOC. Microsoft had a media event this week. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.
” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). “ Microsoft Hopes to Revive Its Education Tablet Efforts With the New $399 Surface Go,” says Edsurge. ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” The virtual charter school in question: ECOT.
” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via EdWeek’s Market Brief : “Teaching Tech-Based Farming: Microsoft Backs Program for Ag Group’s 650,000 Students.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” JFC. Let kids have a friggin’ snow day. More via AJC.
Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Something something Brexit something something MOOCs will save British higher ed. Via The Backchannel : “ Microsoft Weaponizes Minecraft in the War Over Classrooms.” Many academics are fooled by robot-written peer reviews , Inside Higher Ed reports.
In 2013, on the heels of “the Year of the MOOC,” Barber released a report titled “An Avalanche is Coming,” calling for the “unbundling” of higher education. MOOCs are, no surprise, their own entry on this long list of awfulness. Robot essay graders — they grade just the same as human ones. But the “spying” has continued.
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.
Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” Via the Microsoft AI blog : “ Microsoft improves facial recognition technology to perform well across all skin tones, genders.” ” That would be the founders of Minerva and Wayfinding.
Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). “ Robots won’t replace teachers because they can’t inspire us.” Elsewhere in MOOC research… From Campus Technology : “Grouping MOOC Students by Communication Mode Doesn’t Help Completion.” MOOCs losing their mojo?
.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “A Corporate Learning Revolution” – a Coursera webinar. Are MOOCs webinars? Are webinars now MOOCs?). ” Also via Class Central : “ MéxicoX : Meet the MOOC Platform Funded by the Mexican Government.” million total.
Via The USA Today : “Kids on winning robotics team told, ‘Go back to Mexico’ ” The kids were from Pleasant Run Elementary School in Indianapolis. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ Coursera Removes Biometric Identity Verification Using Keystroke Matching,” Class Central reports.
.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via the Iowa City Press-Citizen : “ Iowa families foregoing classroom for virtual school.” Acumen “senior innovation associate” writes about +Acumen in Edsurge : “The Flip Side of Abysmal MOOC Completion Rates ? ” Wheee.
” More on the Afghan robotics team in the contest section below. for Robotics Contest.” Via The New York Times : “To Close Digital Divide, Microsoft to Harness Unused Television Channels.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. .” Via The Atlantic : “The Schools Transforming Immigrant Education.”
Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” MOOCs are dead , according to Udacity ’s VP. ” Never one to let a good MOOC story pass them by, Edsurge repeats the story. “MOOCs Are ”Dead.“ Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. million in crowdfunding for its MOOC platform.
Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. “ Teaching assistant robots will reinvent academia,” Times Higher Education claims. Via Techcrunch : “ Sony now has a Koov robotics learning kit for US classrooms.” ” It’s $520.
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. Because MOOCs on an airplane proved to be such an effective mode of instruction.
” Via McClatchy DC : “Forced to watch child porn for their job, Microsoft employees developed PTSD, they say.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” edX is offering an online master’s degree with Georgia Tech : an OMS (online master’s in science) in Analytics. ” “ A.I. .
” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Princeton University and Microsoft have joined together to file a lawsuit against President Trump’s rescinding of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. But anyway… Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Something something robots something something. For-Profit Colleges.”
” After someone noticed that Microsoft had boasted that it was working with ICE , Nitasha Tiku says that “Microsoft’s Ethical Reckoning Is Here.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). To borrow from Jello Biaffra, “MOOCs aren’t dead, they just deserve to die.”
Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” There’s more MOOC news in the “business of education” section below. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. “A Humanoid Robot Gave a Lecture in a West Point Philosophy Course,” says Futurism.com. Wait wait wait.
” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Microsoft has acquired GitHub. Here’s the NYT headline : “Microsoft Buys GitHub for $7.5 Education Department show.” Without a University Involved.)” million total.
It’s a partnership with Microsoft. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Online education pioneer Tony Bates asks “ What is online learning ?” ” From the press release : “ MOOCs and books initiative launched by Springer and Federica Weblearning.” No neoliberalism here.
Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Vive la MOOC révolution. ” “Orphan MOOCs and the Digital Dark Ages” by Jeffrey Pomerantz in Hybrid Pedagogy. ” There’s more licensing and certification news in the MOOC section above. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.
Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Responses to last week’s news about Western Governors University and the audit of its competency-based offerings: Via NPR : “Who Is A College Teacher, Anyway? .” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” “ NCTM and the Math Forum ” by Tracy Zager.
Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “Are You Getting a Pay Bump For Student Completion? ” “Whatever Happened To MOOCs ?” “ Microsoft is building a new version of Skype for tutors and consultants,” says The Next Web. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.
Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via Wired : “The Young and the Reckless – A gang of teen hackers snatched the keys to Microsoft ’s videogame empire. ” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. Then they went too far.”
” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” The LA Times asks , “ In this digital self-help age, just how effective are MasterClass ’s A-list celebrity workshops?” Via NPR : “Students Compete In First-Ever International High School Robotics Competition.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.
Via Chalkbeat : “Robotics is bringing Betsy DeVos to Detroit for the first time as education secretary.” For your “yes, Microsoft is still horrible files,” this from The Washington Post : “ E-waste recycler Eric Lundgren loses appeal on computer restore disks, must serve 15-month prison term.”
Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Slate : “ The New Diploma Mills.” ” According to this Techcrunch article , MOOCs like Udacity and Coursera weren’t working out for AirBnB so now it is “running its own internal university to teach data science.”
” Online Education and The Once and Future “MOOC” “ Deakin University in Australia will next year offer graduate degrees and certificate programs through FutureLearn , the online learning platform owned by the Open University in the U.K.,” college testing scam , to be deported.”
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