Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2017

“The Year of the MOOC” – I was summoned to Palo Alto, California for a small gathering to discuss the future of teaching, learning, and technology. Perhaps with this data, the MOOC providers can build a map of professional if not cognitive pathways. Let me begin with a story.

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OCTOBER 27, 2017

“Assessing Betsy DeVos ’ Rollback on Disability Rights ” by Pacific Standard’s David Perry. ” Challenging forced arbitration clauses has been one way the CFPB has taken on the student loan industry. Via Buzzfeed : “A Close Ally Of Mike Pence Is Helping The Shady Student Debt Relief Industry.”

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

” Ref Rodriguez, like most of the current members of the LAUSD school board, has strong financial backing from the charter school industry. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ California Should Watch Arkansas Process for Creating New Online Institution,” says Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill.

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APRIL 3, 2017

I use “Silicon Valley” in my work as a shorthand to describe the contemporary high tech industry – its tech and just as importantly, its ideology. But I extend the phrase “Silicon Valley” to all of the high tech industry, not just the chip makers. This is part of the push for MOOCs, we must be honest.).

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. 3D printing, The Economist pronounced in 2012 , was poised to bring about the third industrial revolution. (I

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JULY 15, 2016

Testing, Testing… “ Nevada officials announced Tuesday that a common-core assessment consortium will credit the state $1.8 million as compensation for problems that derailed a spate of its assessments last year,” Education Week reports. Via Education Next : “The Politics of the Common Core Assessments.”

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Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

” The Whiteboard Advisors’ latest “Education Insider” report ( PDF ) is on assessment trends, higher education, and the presidential campaigns. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Lots of goings-on this week in the loan industry. But how do they compare to the old one and the ACT ?”

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JUNE 29, 2018

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Inside Higher Ed : “Lessons Learned From a Consortium That Fizzled.” ” A MOOC consortium , that is, with member institutions Davidson College , Colgate University , Hamilton College , and Wellesley College. More details in Edsurge.

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APRIL 28, 2017

The “nation’s report card” is the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP. Edsurge’s Jeff Young and Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill both asked industry analyst Trace Urdan for his take. ” Via NBC News : “How to Thrive: Arianna Huffington Launches E-Learning Series.”

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JULY 14, 2017

” Via ProPublica : “ Trump Has Secretive Teams to Roll Back Regulations , Led by Hires With Deep Industry Ties.” What The Oil Industry Teaches Oklahoma Students.” ” Via The New York Times : “In Blow to Tech Industry, Trump Shelves Start-Up Immigrant Rule.” Harder for Foreign Students.”

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MARCH 24, 2017

” Via Inside Higher Ed : “Two debt collectors said in separate statements this week that they will not assess collection fees on defaulted student loan borrowers who quickly enter repayment, despite new guidance from the Department of Education.” ” Ng is, of course, the co-founder of the MOOC startup Coursera.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Via Edsurge : “ ​Rhode Island ’s Plans to Become a ‘Lab State’ for Personalized Learning.” Testing, Testing… Via Inside Higher Ed : “Large-Scale Assessment Without Standardized Tests.” ” Education in the Courts. ” More research on virtual schools in the research below.

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DECEMBER 8, 2017

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). So much industry-driven fun fun fun. More details about more industry money for Code.org in the venture philanthropy section below. Instructure has acquired the video-based assessment platform Practice. “Huh?” ” asks a poster on Slashdot.

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OCTOBER 13, 2017

Also by me : “The Ivanka Trump Ed-Tech Industry Network.” ” Via Edsurge : “ Betsy DeVos Visits Bay Area Public School for a Lesson in Personalized Learning.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” MOOCs are dead , according to Udacity ’s VP.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2018

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). How much money does the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative spent in order to place advertorials about personalized learning in ed-tech publications like Edsurge ? .” Of course. Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ Ashford U.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Via The New York Times : “In Her Words: Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Assesses a Year on the Job.” ” There’s more on Department of Education efforts to help the for-profit higher ed industry in the for-profit higher ed section below. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”).

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JANUARY 12, 2017

million gift from the Charles Koch Foundation and Koch Industries , a well-known opponent of government spending on things like public education (among other things). The Economist on “ The Return of the MOOC.” ” “ Harvard/MIT Report Analyzes 4 Years of MOOC Data ,” Campus Technology reports.

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DECEMBER 12, 2017

There was all that ink spilled circa 2010 that Khan Academy and “ flipped learning ” were going to “ change the rules of education ,” replacing in-class instruction with online videos watched as homework. Vive la MOOC Révolution. It’s not simply that the predictions were wrong.

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OCTOBER 21, 2016

Testing, Testing… Via Education Week : “The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium , a major designer of common-core tests for states, is looking for a new fiscal agent after the University of California, Los Angeles, said it will no longer do that work.” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”).

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MARCH 9, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Vive la MOOC révolution. ” “Orphan MOOCs and the Digital Dark Ages” by Jeffrey Pomerantz in Hybrid Pedagogy. ” There’s more licensing and certification news in the MOOC section above. Via Edsurge : “?In Memos from HR.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2017

” From the Bloomberg Editorial Board : “A Raw Deal From Betsy DeVos ” – “ Rolling back regulations on the for-profit college industry will cause the public pain.” And there’s more on regulating the industry (or ya know, not) in the national politics section above.

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