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Or, as Aneesa Davenport, SocialMedia & Analytics Manager for EdSurge, suggested, perhaps give them a periodic “check-up?” Sometimes an artificial persona (call it AI, virtual assistant, robot like ASIMO, whatever) can, in its failed attempt to be human, be truly tragic. How do we keep algorithms in check?
” 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.”
He’s credited with co-teaching the first MOOC in 2008, introduced the theory of “connectivism”—the idea that knowledge is distributed across digital networks—and spearheaded research projects about the role of data and analytics in education. Rise of the robots Siemens has both an academic and an industry perspective on digital learning.
In Pittsburgh, kids might join the growing Maker Movement or pick up some engineering skills while making robots. The MOOC is nonsequential, so anyone can join at any time. On July 7th join KQED to learn how to use Twitter and other media-sharing applications to promote social and civic discourse with students.
In Pittsburgh, kids might join the growing Maker Movement or pick up some engineering skills while making robots. The MOOC is nonsequential, so anyone can join at any time. On July 7th join KQED to learn how to use Twitter and other media-sharing applications to promote social and civic discourse with students.
Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). A call to rebrand MOOCs , from Edsurge. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Via NPR : “Hi, Robot : Adults, Children And The Uncanny Valley.” .” More via Inside Higher Ed. The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed.
Increasingly formal use of socialmedia by education institutions. Rapid change in the demands for media forms (e.g., blogs, socialmedia, podcasting) to promote conversation and thinking around what’s possible in education. Robotics in the classroom. MOOCs, nanodegrees, etc. Maker Movement.
I kicked things off with a survey of major technological developments in a very top level way, then dived into specific, currently used digital tools (the LMS, ePortfolios, video, robotics, big data, socialmedia, 3d printing, etc.). Online learning is on the rise.
Smith, Director of Programs Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for STEM - Revolutionary or Evolutionary? Candidate VoiceThread for Digital Education - Kelli Stair- teacher/ writer An Example STEAM and Maker-Education Curriculum: From Puppets to Robots - Jackie Gerstein, Ed.D. Derek Barkalow, Ph.D. Torrey Trust, Ph.D.
Participants are encouraged to use #library2019 and #libraryemergingtech on their socialmedia posts leading up to and during the event. Her research focuses on emerging technologies such as drones, robotics, driverless vehicles, artificial intelligence, augmented/virtual reality, and their use in libraries and education.
. “ ICE officials have invited tech companies, including Microsoft , to develop algorithms that will track visa holders’ socialmedia activity ,” ProPublica reports. Schools should consider the ways in which their own socialmedia surveillance re-inscribes these sorts of violent, nationalist policies.
” 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.
Wonder Workshop (robotics) – $41 million. Robotics , with ~ $99 million in funding. Or one could look at ed-tech companies that laid off staff: the coding bootcamp Galvanize , the analytics company Civitas Learning , the learning management system Schoology , MOOC provider Coursera , the education giant Pearson , for example.
Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via Edsurge : “ Robots Won’t Replace Instructors , 2 Penn State Educators Argue. “Life Is Complicated: Distance Learning Helps,” says The New York Times. Thanks in advance.
Even if these publications fade away , the breathless stories about the possibilities of brainwave-reading mindfulness headbands and " mind-reading robot tutors in the sky " continue to be told. That's what a decade of ed-tech socialmedia and PR have wrought: hashtag gurus and fake news. Udacity got a new CEO.
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 ”?!
Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Gotta keep hyping that MOOC thing. Via Edsurge : “ MOOCs Are No Longer Massive. ” Via Class Central : “Class Central’s Top 50 MOOCs of All Time (2018 edition).” ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.
.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news in the job training section below. ” More on teen socialmedia usage, this time from Buzzfeed : “‘Tweetdecking’ Is Taking Over Twitter. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.
Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” (Note: there’s a response to this article by Georgia Tech professor Ashok Goel, who builds teaching chat-bots, in the “robots” section below. ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed.
Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news in the credential section below. Via Class Central : “Analysis of 450 MOOC -Based Microcredentials Reveals Many Options But Little Consistency.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Because of course.
Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). The Atlantic on Logan Paul : “The Social-Media Star and the Suicide.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. For-profit colleges bought and sold in the “business of education” section below. Amazon Web Services ( AWS ) has joined edX.
” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Anil Dash and Gina Trapani announced they’re closing down their socialmedia analytics product ThinkUp. That is, major socialmedia platforms like Facebook and Twitter increasingly made it difficult for ThinkUp to work with their APIs.
” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via WCTI12.com ” “ MOOCs Started Out Completely Free. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Via Techcrunch : “ Robot tutor Musio makes its retail debut in Japan.” Where Are They Now?” Lumen Learning has raised $3.75
” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Buzzfeed : “ Online Charter Schools Prepare For A Trump-Era Boom.” “Could robots be marking your homework ?” Via The Awl : “Letting Kids Use SocialMedia Is One More Way We Show Them We Don’t Care About Them.”
Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Class Central : “ MOOCs May Still Be Reshaping Higher Education, Just Not In the Way That Was Initially Predicted.” There’s more MOOC news in the contests and competition section below. ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.
.” 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. See: the LMS, the MOOC.
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”). MOOC news is now much more often “job training” news, so there’s more on MOOCs in that section below. ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” Icon credits: The Noun Project
” Via The Sun Sentinel : “Student made socialmedia threat to kill FAU professor, cops say.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “As Schools Comb SocialMedia for Potential Threats, Has Mass Shooting Anxiety Turned Administrators Into the ‘ Internet Police ’?”
Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via The GW Hatchet : “Oversight of online learning programs lacking in some schools, report finds.” More MOOC job changes: Techcrunch reports that “ Coursera ’s chief product officer just left to become a VC.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.
” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via The South China Morning Post : “ China ’s schools are quietly using AI to mark students’ essays … but do the robots make the grade?” ” “Where Has Teen Car Culture Gone?”
Department of State has received emergency approval from the Office of Management and Budget to collect additional information regarding certain visa applicants ’ travel and employment histories, familial connections, and socialmedia usage in accordance with a notice it posted in the Federal Register May 4.
” For those keeping track of how great socialmedia is for the future of education and knowledge and civics and such: “Last Year, SocialMedia Was Used to Influence Elections in at Least 18 Countries ,” says the MIT Technology Review. ” “Whatever Happened To MOOCs ?”
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 socialmedia. Many academics are fooled by robot-written peer reviews , Inside Higher Ed reports. Heckuva job.
Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” An op-ed in Forbes by University Ventures’ Ryan Craig : “Make Online Education Great (For The First Time).” ” New Nanodegrees from Udacity : Digital Marketing and Robotics. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Robots hate the Common Core.
was named in an investigation by The Associated Press last year for sharing racially charged content on socialmedia.” Via The Guardian : “ Trump bans agencies from ‘providing updates on socialmedia or to reporters’ ” This ban has been targeted at scientists at the EPA and USDA in particular.
” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Related, from the SocialMedia Collective : “Spike in Online Gig Work : Flash in the Pan or Future of Employment?” ” “ Robot Takeover of Higher Ed Hits a Snag,” Inside Higher Ed reports. of Cincinnati Police Officer.”
” I’ve looked at how for-profit colleges , MOOCs , and learn-to-code companies have tapped into these narratives in order to justify their products and services. ” That’s because the stories told this year to keep us hustling and to keep up imagining a certain kind of future are almost all about robots.
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.” ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via The Atlantic : “The Future of AI Depends on High-School Girls.”
Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ California Should Watch Arkansas Process for Creating New Online Institution,” says Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Via TeacherCast : “Why Teachers Will Never Be Replaced By Robots.”
Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “Stop Asking About Completion Rates: Better Questions to Ask About MOOCs in 2019,” says Edsurge. .” ” “Stop Asking About Completion Rates: Better Questions to Ask About MOOCs in 2019,” says Edsurge.
Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Class Central : “ Monetizing A MOOC Platform.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Probably my favorite “robots are the future of education” story in a good, long while. But They Just Can’t Get Enough.”
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.
From the Department of Education press release : “ Federal Commission on School Safety Meeting to Focus on the Effects of Entertainment , Media , Cyberbullying and SocialMedia on Violence and Student Safety.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Starts with a g? Ends with -uns?
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