The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 16, 2013

There are eight conference strands covering a wide variety of timely topics, such as MOOCs, e-books, maker spaces, mobile services, embedded librarians, green libraries, doctoral student research, library and information center "tours," and more! Expanding Options in the Digital Age - Professor Lesley Farmer 9:00pm All Systems Go!

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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? Carmona, Lead Contract English Instructor Student-Generated Apps for Mobile Devices – can they enhance higher levels of understanding? Derek Barkalow, Ph.D.

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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 ? A Wi-Fi system. iNACOL has released a report on advocacy for competency-based education. Raise $146.1 ” Mindset all the things.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations.

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Hack Education

APRIL 13, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Via The Verge : “ Duolingo overhauled its fluency system to make it harder for advanced users.” “Over 20 advocacy groups complain to FTC that YouTube is violating children’s privacy law ,” Techcrunch reports. ” Indeed.

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Hack Education

JUNE 17, 2016

Isn’t Liberia outsourcing its education system to a Gates and Zuckerberg-backed startup , Bridge International Academies ? ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). From Phil Hill : “Update on UC Davis LMS Fiasco: Finishing the term with two partial systems.” ” (Hmm.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

” Via The New York Post : “Charter-school advocacy group to close up shop.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Class Central : “ TU Delft Students Can Earn Credit For MOOCs From Other Universities.” ” (State and Local) Education Politics.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 27, 2017

” The Black Alliance for Educational Options , a charter school advocacy group, announced it will cease operations at the end of the year. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” MOOCs. “Learning Creative Learning: It’s not a MOOC , it’s a community,” says the MIT Media Lab.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Via The New Yorker : “ Georgia ’s Separate and Unequal Special-Education System.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Gotta keep that MOOC hype alive. “ MOOCs Find a New Audience with On-Campus Students,” Edsurge claims. State and Local) Education Politics.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 1, 2016

” The Autistic Self Advocacy Network issued a statement on the nomination of Jeff Sessions as US Attorney General. ’” Online Education, Beyond “MOOCs” Via Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill : “The Remarkable Transformation at UF Online.” ” by The Atlantic’s Melinda D.

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Hack Education

JULY 13, 2018

” Via Inside Higher Ed : “An Education Department plan to begin cutting large debt collection firms out of the student loan system is on hold after Congress warned against move.” ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Wired : “How Silicon Valley Fuels an Informal Caste System.”

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Hack Education

APRIL 3, 2017

An advocacy for libertarian politics – think Peter Thiel (a Stanford graduate) now advising Donald Trump. This is part of the push for MOOCs, we must be honest.). In education, that’s the learning management system (the VLE) perhaps. A belief in technological utopia. A fierce embrace of the new.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Clickers” are definitely not new — indeed, in my research for Teaching Machines , I found examples of classroom response systems dating back to the 1950s. In 2011, Barber went to work for Pearson as its Chief Education Advisor, continuing his advocacy for competition, data collection, measurements, and standards-based reforms.

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Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Lots of MOOC PR appeared in the news this week. ” “What if MOOCs Revolutionize Education After All?” “Now that MOOCs are mainstream, where does online learning go next?” And more on MOOCs in the credentialing section below as well.

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Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Historically black universities have been dropped from a controversial North Carolina bill slashing tuition at certain institutions to $500, but worries about the legislation’s effects remain high at two universities still facing tuition cuts – and across the state system.”

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Hack Education

JUNE 2, 2017

” Via Chalkbeat : “For Betsy DeVos and her former advocacy group, the future of education means ‘ personalization ,’ including virtual schools.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Here’s a link to all the stories in Slate’s series on online credit recovery programs.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Newark has control once again of its public school system, which the state took away from the city 22 years ago. Via BocaNews : “Parents throughout South Palm Beach County are using iReady on behalf of their children, possibly skewing scores – and usefulness – of the $6-Million diagnostic computer system.”

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Economic Boom Isn’t Helping Some Student-Loan Debtors , Advocacy Group Says.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Via Futurism.com : “Schools Are Installing Bathroom Surveillance Systems to Bust Vapers.”

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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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Hack Education

AUGUST 26, 2016

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). “Why America’s MOOC pioneers have abandoned ship” by Jonathan Rees. “ MOOCs Are Dead. ” Via The Atlantic : “Good School, Rich School; Bad School, Poor School –The inequality at the heart of America's education system.”

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). And I’m not sure if Udacity now better fits here in this for-profit higher ed section, but there’s news about it in the MOOC section above. Via Education Dive : “K–12 system is failing to leverage data.” of Cincinnati Police Officer.”

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Department of Education Announces Requirements for New Federal Loan Servicing System.” ” Via the Education Law Center : “Several New Jersey civil rights and parent advocacy organizations have filed a legal challenge to new high school graduation regulations recently adopted by the State Board of Education.

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