TeacherCast
JANUARY 1, 2016
The company has developed a number of sophisticated software programs and mobile apps designed to encourage greater customization in education. These venues range from MOOCs (free massive online open courses) to traditional brick-and-mortar public schools. Possibly that situation will change permanently in 2016.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 30, 2019
Or the company will have to start charging for the software. The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, Um, they do.)
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Hack Education
OCTOBER 27, 2017
Via Techcrunch : “ Holberton gets backing from more industry executives as it looks to scale its software engineering school.” 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.
Hack Education
MAY 27, 2016
Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). MOOCs for credit ! FutureLearn announced that two UK universities – the University of Leeds and the Open University – will offer MOOCs that will be accepted for college credit. For more on MOOCs for credit, see the “MOOCs” section above.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 7, 2018
Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill analyzes a recent interview with Coursera ’s CEO and argues the MOOC provider is “betting on OPM market and shift to low-cost masters degrees.” What could go wrong. ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.
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. Remember: the biases of engineers and managers get baked into the software you use. Indiana University has joined edX. Meanwhile on Campus… “Forget Lazy Rivers.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 20, 2016
In April, journalist Anya Kamenetz looked closely at “ Pearson’s Quest to Cover the Planet in Company-Run Schools ”: "Pearson would like to become education’s first major conglomerate, serving as the largest private provider of standardized tests, software, materials, and now the schools themselves.
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