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‘Our Technology Is Our Ideology’: George Siemens on the Future of Digital Learning

Edsurge

A researcher, theorist, educator, Siemens is the digital learning guy. 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.

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COVID-19 Is Accelerating the Digital Blending of Working and Learning

Edsurge

Retailers such as The Gap are accelerating the adoption of robots in their warehouses. It seems certain that more professional learning will happen outside of traditional institutions and campuses – especially if colleges fail to adapt. Learning is increasingly happening in the workplace, or “ in the flow of work.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

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.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via the Coursera blog : “New mobile features: Transcripts, notes, and reminders.” " It’s lovely to see the big innovation from the MOOC startups in 2017 involves the learning management system. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

Hack Education

I first read an article by Seymour Papert in a Women’s Studies class in the mid 1990s – “ Epistemological Pluralism ,” which he co-wrote with Sherry Turkle. “Hardly Anyone Wants to Take a Liberal Arts MOOC,” Edsurge informed its readers in February. ” ). Only “1.86

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Class Central : “ TU Delft Students Can Earn Credit For MOOCs From Other Universities.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. The “adaptive learning” company has raised $23.5 Smart Sparrow has raised $7.5 million total.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “No College Kid Needs a Water Park to Study,” says James Koch in a NYT op-ed , criticizing schools spending money on lavish amenities. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. “Is Personalized Learning the Next Big Thing in K–12 Philanthropy?