Hack Education

JUNE 8, 2018

Inside Higher Ed on Facebook ’s plans to partner with community colleges to teach digital literacy. Here’s how the Des Moines Register wrote about Des Moines Area Community College ’s involvement: “Facebook chooses Iowa college for rare digital marketing education partnership.” ” Hi schools. .”

Khan Academy 45

Khan Academy Education Facebook E-rate 45

Hack Education

JUNE 23, 2017

“Mark Zuckerberg just unveiled Facebook ’s new mission statement,” says The Verge. Via Buzzfeed : “ Violence On Facebook Live Is Worse Than You Thought.” ” Because, you know, Facebook’s mission is “community.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Where’s the outrage?”

Education 53

Education Kaplan Pearson Elsevier 53

Hack Education

OCTOBER 26, 2018

This Edsurge article – “ OER is Growing at Religious Colleges , But Raises Unique Challenges” – strikes me as a little weird, considering the long relationship between open education (the conference, at the very least) and former BYU professor David Wiley. .” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

Education 60

Education Khan Academy Company MOOC 60

Hack Education

JULY 21, 2017

Via Patheos : “ BYU-Idaho Professor Fired After Defending LGBT Rights in Private Facebook Post.” Via NPR : “Students Compete In First-Ever International High School Robotics Competition.” ” The New York Times reports that “ Burundi Robotics Team Vanishes After U.S. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

Education 46

Education LMS Robotics E-rate 46

Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

” Via The Seattle Times : “Shooter sent Facebook message to Breitbart’s Milo Yiannopoulos before gunfire at UW protest, police say.” ” Via The New York Times : “ Facebook ’s Virtual Reality Business Gets a New Leader.” “Can robotics teach problem solving to students?”

Education 40

Education Coursera Robotics E-rate 40

Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

Via Gizmodo : “ Facebook Will Add 3,000 More People to Watch Murders and Suicides.” ” Nope, robots will not be doing this job of content moderation , as Facebook recently boasted at its developer conference. “ OER-Enabled Pedagogy ” by Lumen Learning’s David Wiley. Well, not quite.

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Kaplan Education Blackboard MOOC 46

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

I was inspired, I think, to select that topic because talk of “platforms” was incredibly popular in Silicon Valley – it had been for a while – as companies strove to become “the next Facebook.” Think Facebook. ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs.

Technology 62

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Hack Education

MARCH 9, 2018

Edsurge on the business of OER. Via The Guardian : “ Facebook asks users: should we allow men to ask children for sexual images ?” ” Thank goodness neither Facebook nor its founder have expressed any interest in bringing these questionable ethics and business practices to education. .”

Education 47

Education Kaplan Coursera MOOC 47

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

University of Nebraska political science professor Ari Kohen “liked” a photo on Facebook depicting a defaced campaign sign for Congressman Jeff Fortenberry. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via Edsurge : “ Robots Won’t Replace Instructors , 2 Penn State Educators Argue.

Education 53

Education Company Report IXL Learning 53

Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “A divided federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld a lower court’s ruling that a Minnesota community college was justified when it kicked a student out of a nursing program because of Facebook comments administrators deemed to be unprofessional and threatening to fellow students.”

Education 40

Education Pearson Blackboard Survey 40

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

“Does Open Pedagogy require OER ?” Facebook has decided to obey the law , announcing this week that “ discriminatory advertising has no place on Facebook.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “How Robots Will Save Liberal Education.”

Education 40

Education MOOC E-rate Robotics 40

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

” Via ProPublica : “ Facebook (Still) Letting Housing Advertisers Exclude Users by Race.” ” (Related, this assignment from Davidson College’s Mark Sample : “Hacking Facebook’s Ad Network for Justice.”). The business of OER. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

Education 44

Education Khan Academy Company Training 44

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Via Techcrunch : “ Facebook , Google and others join The Trust Project , an effort to increase transparency around online news.” ” Via Poynter : “Do Facebook and Google have control of their algorithms anymore? Stephen Downes and David Wiley debate OER : “The Cost Trap, Part 3” by David Wiley.

Education 47

Education OER Pearson Report 47

Hack Education

JULY 27, 2018

“An open letter to Mark Zuckerberg : our child died at** Sandy Hook** – why let Facebook lies hurt us even more?” “The RISE Package for R: Reducing Time Through the OER Continuous Improvement Cycle” by Lumen Learning’s David Wiley. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

Education 43

Education MOOC E-rate Coursera 43

Hack Education

MAY 26, 2017

Related: “‘ Harvard Crimson ’ Site Is Hacked to Take Jabs at Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg ,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. .” Via The Guardian : “ Revealed: Facebook ’s internal rulebook on sex, terrorism and violence.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

Education 46

Education Data Report Software 46

Hack Education

OCTOBER 13, 2017

” Via ProPublica : “ For-Profit Schools Reward Students for Referrals and Facebook Endorsements.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Via Techcrunch : “ Mattel releases biologically inspired foldable robot bugs.” ” There’s more news on for-profits in the national politics section above.

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MOOC Education Kaplan Company 43

Hack Education

MAY 25, 2018

. “What Happened to Facebook ’s Grand Plan to Wire the World?” ” Via Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill : “ Top Hat ’s OER Announcement: Doubling down on faculty engagement.” ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” asks Wired.

Education 46

Education MOOC Social Media Report 46

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. But the “spying” has continued.

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Pearson MOOC Company Industry 145