Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 24, 2016

I hoped to move on from there to what I called “approaches”, ways of using tech that didn’t depend on a specific platform – i.e., gaming and gamification, blended learning, distance learning, MOOCs, mobile, and digital literacy. Discussion went in some interesting angles, such as secondary education.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

For a long time, arguably the best known anti-cheating technology was the plagiarism detection software TurnItIn. So they turned some of their research on pattern-matching of brainwaves to create a piece of software that would identify patterns in texts. Anti-cheating software isn't just about plagiarism, of course.

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Robotics Software Company ProctorU 87

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Any piece of education software or curriculum that puts “fun” in its name is not. More robot news up in the MOOC section above. The school management software maker has raised $191,500 total. on Coursera.” million total.

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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.”) It may be the hardware or the operating system (OS), even a web browser or other underlying software, as long as the program code is executed in it. It’s now an LMS too.

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 63

Hack Education

JULY 8, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “ Safety, Risk, and Informed Decisions ” – Common Sense Media’s Bill Fitzgerald writes about how to evaluate the privacy of ed-tech software (and how to evaluate Common Sense Media’s privacy evaluations ). ” Like, 99%.

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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

DECEMBER 11, 2016

“Hardly Anyone Wants to Take a Liberal Arts MOOC,” Edsurge informed its readers in February. ” MOOC startups like Udacity and Coursera have also rebranded to target this particular post-secondary technical training market. We’ve seen this before in the MOOC world. See: the LMS, the MOOC.

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Technology Education Microsoft Industry 89

Hack Education

DECEMBER 13, 2016

” With all the charges of fraud and deceptive marketing levied against post-secondary institutions this year – from the University of Northern New Jersey too ITT, from Trump University to DevSchool – we might ask if, indeed, this is the way it works. million ads for software-developer jobs nationwide. Jobs for Grads.

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Technology Education Secondary Pearson 40

Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Launches Online School to Teach Software Development.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via The GW Hatchet : “Oversight of online learning programs lacking in some schools, report finds.” Once upon a time, Coursera updates went in the MOOC section.

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Education Coursera MOOC Report 49

Hack Education

AUGUST 10, 2018

” The details: “The Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) ruling came after a secondary school student in Germany downloaded a photograph of Cordoba from a travel website to illustrate a presentation which was then published on the school website.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”).

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E-rate Education Robotics Elsevier 44

Hack Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

” 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. These have all been separate articles in each series. “More Americans just need the right training.” ” The company in question is HireVue.

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Robotics MOOC Training Industry 60

Hack Education

OCTOBER 13, 2017

” IPEDS is the government’s database tracking post-secondary education statistics, including enrollments and graduations. 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.

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MOOC Education Kaplan Company 43

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Or the company will have to start charging for the software. In 2018, Mozilla said it would retire Backpack, its platform for sharing and displaying badges, and would help users move their badges to Badgr, software developed by the tech company Concentric Sky. The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That).

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Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

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.” a month.). .” ” Oh. Increased by just 2, but still.).

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Education E-rate Company Kaplan 47

Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

I’ll look more closely at discrimination by design – in software and in algorithms – in the final article in this series.) Nevertheless, education technology continues to insist that its software and algorithms can identify students who are struggling – academically or emotionally.

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