…You mean to tell me everything that happened was just so I would record a song for a Gregory Hines movie?
Michael McDonald, Yacht Rock (Episode 12)
If you’re affluent, we can do a much better job with you, we can make magic happen.
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Loading...Daphne Koller is leaving Coursera to join Google Alphabet Calico. EdTech is not the sort of field that keeps up with comings and goings a la the Hollywood Reporter, but this movement is significant in that Koller (along with Sebastian Thrun and Andrew Ng) were the public faces of The Year of the MOOC, MOOCmania and All Things MOOC after the stratospheric success of Stanford’s Fall 2011 courses. …
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...“Facebook Schools MOOCs on Engagement.” That’s a provocative title. It’s also beyond hollow.
Sure? There’s plenty of research about folly of discussion forum. Meeting at local DMV likely better for engagement. https://t.co/dU2ybk11U9
— Rolin Moe (@RMoeJo) May 24, 2016
The research at the heart of this EdSurge buzz, coming out of Penn State, looked at three Coursera MOOCs and their supplemental faculty-run Facebook pages. …
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I wrote a MOOC history in 2014. I also wrote about Donald Trump and MOOCs in 2013. Prior to my blog, no one had linked MOOCs and Trump, and my link was tangential. Honestly, the only way I could further imagine a link from Trump to MOOCs is if he promoted my history.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Coursera’s announcement to add Specializations to its roster of educational packages comes with a new price in many cases, as noted in Carl Straumsheim’s 1/29 piece at Inside Higher Ed.
…To sign up for Michigan State University’s How to Start Your Own Business, for example, budding entrepreneurs have to pay $79 up front for the first of five courses in the Specialization or prepay $474 for the entire program.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Yesterday, Coursera announced another steaming option, this time watching their contents on Apple TV. This reminded me of the 1980s-1990s Annenberg-funded World of Chemistry. In high school, I loved World of Chemistry.
The video only plays the cold open for the show; to access the contents requires going to Annenberg Learner where you can watch and share but not embed; Annenberg has requested no embedding. …
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The spate of US Presidential debates over the past months has reminded me of the dialogue and rhetorical tricks my partners and I used to employ as headstrong high schoolers through the National Forensics League. The goal of a debate tournament was not to present good policy, but to either defend or attack a policy better than the opposition.…
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The spate of US Presidential debates over the past months has reminded me of the dialogue and rhetorical tricks my partners and I used to employ as headstrong high schoolers through the National Forensics League. The goal of a debate tournament was not to present good policy, but to either defend or attack a policy better than the opposition.…
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– Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho (1983)
When I quote this passage from Worstward Ho, the somewhat obscure yet recently rejuvenated Samuel Beckett novella, the meaning of the famous lines in the preceding paragraph, those on the forearm of Stan Wawrinka and on the lips of Richard Branson, Elon Musk and other entrepreneurs, change entirely.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Try again. Fail again. Better again. Or better worse. Fail worse again. Still worse again. Till sick for good. Throw up for good.
– Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho (1983)
When I quote this passage from Worstward Ho, the somewhat obscure yet recently rejuvenated Samuel Beckett novella, the meaning of the famous lines in the preceding paragraph, those on the forearm of Stan Wawrinka and on the lips of Richard Branson, Elon Musk and other entrepreneurs, change entirely.…
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