Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

One recent study found “widespread acceptance of alternative credentialing programs at American colleges and universities.” Panelists in this discussion will discuss the study’s findings and the evolving attitudes towards alternative credentials in the workforce. Higher Ed 9:30 a.m. 11:00 a.m.

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Learning with 'e's

JUNE 11, 2015

The synopsis reads: With the success of open access publishing, Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and open education practices, the open approach to education has moved from the periphery to the mainstream. The dominant narrative now is that MOOCs are the technological solution and education is ripe for disruption.

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 5, 2016

study, Going Digital , on faculty attitudes towards digital materials. Community colleges are much more interested in OER than other sectors. For example, MOOCs are still weak on completion and learning, but evolving. He references the plight of adjuncts, including Doonesbury’s take.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Smith, Director of Programs Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for STEM - Revolutionary or Evolutionary? Associate Professor of Biology A Case Study in Science and Engineering Job Shadowing in High School - Ann Gaudino, Ed.D. Derek Barkalow, Ph.D.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Miller Great Global Challenge Project Awardee Presentation: Why should I study a Foreign Language? with Robert Porzak, PhD and Jacek Łukasiewicz, PhD High School Global Issues Class as a Springboard for Creating Young Activists - Adam Carter How can schools be vehicles for creating community wellness? Kamal Preet, Ms.

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Conference Education Case Study Mobility 4

NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Using everyday digital content, the COR paper and online assessments directly connect to the questions posed in SHEG’s study and engage learners in credibility decision-making around three COR Competencies: Who’s behind the information? Social studies teachers will adore these! What’s the evidence?

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

” It’s being positioned here as the first time Congress has funded open textbooks, but it’s not the federal government’s first commitment to OER. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “ OER , CARE , Stewardship, and the Commons” by “Econproph” Jim Luke.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 25, 2013

I recently had the honor of traveling to the MIT campus in Boston and participating in a panel discussion on Open Education Resources (OER) at The Sixth Conference of MIT''s Learning International Networks Consortium (LINC) with three illustrious advocates of these open resources: Nicole Allen, Philipp Schmidt, and panel moderator Steve Carson.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “Aftermath of the MOOC wars: Can commercial vendors support creative higher education ? Data and “Research” Via Vox : “A bot crawled thousands of studies looking for simple math errors. Raise $146.1 The results are concerning.”

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Education MOOC Report Khan Academy 66

Hack Education

APRIL 13, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). “ Can a For-Profit, Venture-Backed Company Keep OER Free – and Be Financially Sustainable? Edsurge’s coverage of Top Hat’s OER news is also in the Betteridge’s Law section above. The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed.

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Education Facebook Edmodo OER 45

Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2017

Via Motherboard : “ New York City Passes Bill to Study Biases in Algorithms Used by the City.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). A call to rebrand MOOCs , from Edsurge. ” The city uses algorithms, for example, to place students in public schools. ” Education in the Courts. .”

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Education Robotics MOOC Facebook 47

Hack Education

JUNE 23, 2017

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.” ” Via IRRODL : “ Khan Academy as Supplemental Instruction: A Controlled Study of a Computer-Based Mathematics Intervention.”

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Education Kaplan Pearson Elsevier 54

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.” ” Via WBEZ : “Study: 2013 Chicago School Closings Failed To Help Students.”

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Education MOOC Social Media Report 46

Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

The US Department of Education released its “ #GoOpenDistrict Launch Packet ,” encouraging schools to use OER. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Elsewhere in MOOC research… From Campus Technology : “Grouping MOOC Students by Communication Mode Doesn’t Help Completion.”

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Via The Chicago Tribune : “Almost all student loan fraud claims involve for-profit colleges , study finds.” ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” The University of Iceland has joined edX. The business of OER. The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. The business of Peter Thiel.

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Education Khan Academy Company Training 44

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

” Via Edsurge : “As Bootcamps Look for Novel Ways for Students to Pay For Their Studies, Many Try ‘ Deferred Tuition ’ ” Do note how student financial aid startups are still raising venture capital (and how now, I guess, ed-tech publications cover these stories when before they insisted these weren’t ed-tech). .”

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Education ProctorU Company Report 53

Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

Via Education Week : “Congress Budget Deal Bans New Gold-Standard Studies of Federal Vouchers.” 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. Gee, I wonder why.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. For their part, critics of laptop bans claimed the studies the op-eds frequently cite were flawed, reductive, and out-of-date. They’re distracting others.

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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?

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Education MOOC Company Report 49

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” ( The Atlantic and Vox also wrote up this study.). ” George Veletsianos on the “ ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2018.” Via Edsurge : “Campus Support for OER is Growing, Survey Finds.”

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Hack Education

JULY 27, 2018

Via Wired : “Congress Has a $65 Million Proposal to Study Tech’s Effect on Kids.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news from Edsurge in the “job training” section below. Among the speakers: Betsy DeVos and Peter Thiel. ” More via the AP.

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Education MOOC E-rate Coursera 43

Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

The NAACP endorses OER. 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.” Cyber Charters , Study Finds.”

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Hack Education

MAY 20, 2016

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). “ OpenStax , Knewton introduce adaptive learning into OER.” " Via the MIT Technology Review : “Largest Study of Online Tracking Proves Google Really Is Watching Us All.” Remember what I’ve said: watch the student loan space.).

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Education Pearson Report Company 46

Hack Education

AUGUST 31, 2018

His wife is also the founder of the OER organization CK12. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). A new study suggests it should spend more.” Some of Khosla’s education investments are listed here. Because “open.”). ” The Business of Financial Aid. .

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Education Social Media Company Data 41

Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Big HR news about Coursera in the HR section below. Here’s the headline from Inside Higher Ed : “For-Credit MOOC: Best of Both Worlds at MIT ?” ” But if you look closer, it’s not a MOOC; it’s just an online class at MIT.

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Hack Education

MARCH 16, 2018

The** Department of Education** has selected the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education to manage its #GoOpen campaign. ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” There’s some Udacity-related MOOC news in the job training section below. The Business of Job Training.

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Education MOOC Company Report 47

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Via E-Literate : “ Hawai’i Senate Bill: Would mandate OER material for all U Hawai’i system courses.” ” And later in the week, an update : “Hawai’i Senate OER Bill Update: Amended language saves the day.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”).

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Hack Education

JANUARY 18, 2017

.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ MOOC enrollment drops at HarvardX and MITx after free certifications disappear ,” says Techcrunch. Via the IEEE Spectrum : “How the Pioneers of the MOOC Got It Wrong.” Sloan Foundation has awarded DPLA $1.5

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Education Pearson E-rate MOOC 40

Hack Education

JULY 29, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). “A new study debunks the myth that wealthy college students receive more state money than do the economically disadvantaged.” ” Phil Hill also weighs in on the latest Babson survey on OER. Surprising results from new study.”

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Education Company Report Data 40

Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

“ How Not to Study Donald Trump ” – “To make sense of Trumpism, and to put Trump in his historical context, The Chronicle of Higher Education asked a mostly white group of scholars to suggest readings for a syllabus for a mock course in Trump Studies. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”).

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news down in the “labor and management” section below. ” Bible study, I’m guessing. .” There’s news about a new venture capital fund run by for-profit higher ed down in the venture capital section below.

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Education Company Khan Academy MOOC 63

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. Edsurge on the business of OER.

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Education Kaplan MOOC Coursera 47

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ MOOCs : A Postmortem” by Jonathan Rees. Meanwhile, Campus Technology offers “7 Tips for Listing MOOCs on Your Résumé.” “Does Open Pedagogy require OER ?” ” Story says “could be.” ” Tech PR gonna PR.

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Education MOOC E-rate Robotics 40

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Chalkbeat investigates the Indiana Virtual School : “As students signed up, online school hired barely any teachers – but founder’s company charged it millions.” " The majors include sociology, media studies, and political science.

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Education Facebook Company Robotics 49

Hack Education

JUNE 8, 2018

Via The Atlantic : “ DeVos Says There’s One Thing Her School-Safety Commission Won’t Be Studying: Guns.” ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). “Some Thoughts on OER ” by Mindwires Consulting’s Michael Feldstein. .” National) Education Politics.

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Khan Academy Education Facebook E-rate 46

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

” Via Chalkbeat : “ Trump education nominee pleads ignorance about high-profile voucher studies showing negative results.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “Are You Getting a Pay Bump For Student Completion? ” “Whatever Happened To MOOCs ?”

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Education OER Pearson Report 48

Hack Education

DECEMBER 6, 2016

The Rebranding of MOOCs. Remember 2012 , “ The Year of the MOOC? Remember in 2012 when the media wrote about MOOCs with such frenzy, parroting all these marketing claims and more and predicting that MOOCs were poised to “ end the era of expensive higher education ”? MOOCs are not particularly "open."

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