Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

” Microsoft acquired Minecraft in 2015 – which probably speaks volumes right there about its progressive potential – and in January of this year, Microsoft bought TeacherGaming, the maker of a Minecraft version aimed at classroom usage. Only “1.86 unique users have enrolled 4.1 Google’s Alphabet Inc.

Technology 89

Technology Education Microsoft Industry 89

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). MOOC hype deja vu.). You can get a Microsoft certification! of Mississippi Students Stage Sit-In Over Racist Social-Media Post.” The University of Newcastle has joined edX. Udacity has launched a VR nanodegree. It lives.).

Education 40

Education E-rate MOOC Report 40

Hack Education

APRIL 13, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). “ Apple and Microsoft Now Offer $100 Styluses. ” Via Edsurge : “Transcription and Accessibility – New Partnerships from Microsoft and Amazon.” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. ” asks Edsurge. ” asks Edsurge.

Education 45

Education Facebook Edmodo OER 45

Hack Education

JUNE 17, 2016

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Anil Dash and Gina Trapani announced they’re closing down their social media analytics product ThinkUp. That is, major social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter increasingly made it difficult for ThinkUp to work with their APIs.

Education 50

Education Coursera Microsoft Company 50

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Bush ), and the invocation of facts, evidence, and expertise in political arguments (particularly those arguments on social media) is now interpreted as bias rather objectivity. Or MOOCs even. But facts, evidence, and expertise have taken blow after blow in recent years ( at least since President George W. Fads fade, of course.

Technology 40

Technology Education Report Facebook 40

Hack Education

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Microsoft -Branded MOOCs for K–12 Leaders.” The ruling, which referred to players as employees, found that they must be freely allowed to post on social media, discuss issues of their health and safety, and speak with the media.”

Education 40

Education lynda.com Knewton E-rate 40

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

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.”

Education 53

Education Coursera Elsevier MOOC 53

Hack Education

MAY 25, 2018

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.”

Education 46

Education MOOC Social Media Report 46

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

” 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.

Education 61

Education MOOC Social Media E-rate 61

Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

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. The Business of Job Training.

Kaplan 46

Kaplan Education Blackboard MOOC 46

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Something something Brexit something something MOOCs will save British higher ed. tl;dr: emailing them, holding webinars, using social media. Via The Backchannel : “ Microsoft Weaponizes Minecraft in the War Over Classrooms.”

Education 40

Education Coursera Facebook Social Media 40

Hack Education

JULY 13, 2018

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). “ Microsoft Hopes to Revive Its Education Tablet Efforts With the New $399 Surface Go,” says Edsurge. ” The Pew Research Center on “ Activism in the Social Media Age.” ” The virtual charter school in question: ECOT.

Education 43

Education Khan Academy Blackboard Report 43

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Of course, teachers have utilized social media sites for years to launch various side-hustles — speaking gigs and “ brand ambassadorships ”, for example — as well as to facilitate their main hustle — you know, teaching. The incident, she added, had also made her aware that “Pearson is monitoring all social media during PARCC testing.”

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2018

Via The Guardian : “ Student Loans Company ‘spied on vulnerable students’ social media’ ” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Not sure we needed emails to know this, but hey. ” JFC. More via AJC.

Education 43

Education Pearson Company Blackboard 43

Hack Education

APRIL 3, 2017

It ignores what happens in Seattle: the home of Amazon, Microsoft, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. This is part of the push for MOOCs, we must be honest.). Technology companies, on the other hand, seem well poised to do so – not just Microsoft, but Google and Apple, of course. ” Despite raising some $87.5

Trends 66

Trends Company MOOC Edmodo 66

Hack Education

AUGUST 31, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” ClassDojo is now a full social media platform for schools - this letter & video just emailed to parents. ” Edsurge on a YouGov/Microsoft poll of parents: “Survey Says: Parents Think Tech Companies Should Help Build Kids’ Digital Skills.”

Education 41

Education Social Media Company Data 41

Hack Education

OCTOBER 13, 2017

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.“ million in crowdfunding for its MOOC platform. “ What’s Next?

MOOC 43

MOOC Education Kaplan Company 43

Hack Education

JUNE 22, 2018

” 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.”

Education 45

Education Microsoft MOOC Coursera 45

Hack Education

DECEMBER 13, 2016

” The University of Northern New Jersey had a website – one with a.edu domain, to boot – as well as several active social media profiles. The technology industry has been doing this for quite some time – take Microsoft’s own certification program that it launched back in 1992. Microcredentials.

Technology 40

Technology Education Secondary Pearson 40

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

” 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. Maybe social media is broken, Cathy O’Neil suggests. Immigration and Education. For-Profit Colleges.”

Education 46

Education Facebook Company Report 46

Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2017

” 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. Upgrades and Downgrades.

MOOC 40

MOOC Education Robotics Report 40

Hack Education

JUNE 8, 2018

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Microsoft has acquired GitHub. Here’s the NYT headline : “Microsoft Buys GitHub for $7.5 More on the latest Pew study on teens and social media – I noted it in last week’s round-up – in Education Week and by Bryan Alexander.

Khan Academy 46

Khan Academy Education Facebook E-rate 46

Hack Education

MARCH 9, 2018

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. Via Edsurge : “?In PHEW, RIGHT?

Education 47

Education Kaplan MOOC Coursera 47

Hack Education

MAY 27, 2016

Testing, Testing… “ Common Core testing group wages aggressive campaign against critics on social media,” according to The Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). MOOCs for credit ! ” (That giant: Pearson , of course.).

Education 53

Education MOOC Common Core Trends 53

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

” For those keeping track of how great social media is for the future of education and knowledge and civics and such: “Last Year, Social Media Was Used to Influence Elections in at Least 18 Countries ,” says the MIT Technology Review. ” “Whatever Happened To MOOCs ?”

Education 48

Education OER Pearson Report 48

Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

was named in an investigation by The Associated Press last year for sharing racially charged content on social media.” Via The Guardian : “ Trump bans agencies from ‘providing updates on social media or to reporters’ ” This ban has been targeted at scientists at the EPA and USDA in particular.

Education 40

Education Coursera Robotics E-rate 40

Hack Education

APRIL 27, 2018

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”). .” Education in the Courts.

Education 44

Education Facebook Company MOOC 44

Hack Education

DECEMBER 8, 2016

” 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.,” ” “So-So Social Media Privacy?

Education 40

Education Report Company E-rate 40

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Related, from the Social Media Collective : “Spike in Online Gig Work : Flash in the Pan or Future of Employment?” ” “ Microsoft joins the Linux Foundation ,” Techcrunch reports. ” and “ Social Media Update 2016.”

Education 40

Education Company Data Pearson 40