FCC educational broadband
FCC changes its rules, puts educational spectrum up for open auction
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Digital Literacy for St. Cloud State University
FCC changes its rules, puts educational spectrum up for open auction
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Goldie Blumenstyk, called it the “embedded for-profit university” because there’s all these different for-profits operations within a nonprofit higher-ed institution.
One of the MOOC founders who said five years later, well MOOCs have failed as an educational experiment. And my comment to that was, they never were an educational experiment.
Anya Kamenetz called “DIY U” people cobbling together an education from various sources
And we are in a world of multiple new models. The work I’ve done in the last 20 years in online or technologically enhanced learning suggests that fewer than 10 percent of the people who are learners are able to self-direct—or really more like 4 percent.
https://www.alastore.ala.org/content/library-leadership-your-way
core issues
https://www.primaryresearch.com/AddCart.aspx?ReportID=566
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Weakest students more likely to take online college classes but do worse in them
Protopsalt is is a professor at George Mason University, where he directs Center for Education Policy and Evaluation. He previously served as a senior official in the U.S. Department of Education.
The paper, “Does Online Education Live Up to Its Promise? A Look at the Evidence and Implications for Federal Policy,” was also written by Sandy Baum, an economist at the Urban Institute, a nonprofit research organization.
At four-year universities, students with high grades often did just as well in an online course, but those with low grades suffered more. Another 2017 study of students at a for-profit university which offers both in-person and online classes found that students who took an online class not only got lower grades in that class but also in future classes. Online students were more likely to drop out of college altogether than similar students who attended in-person classes.
The question is whether we should keep expanding online learning, with generous federal subsidies, to the most vulnerable students before colleges have tested and proven they can educate them adequately outside the classroom.
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I’m shocked that Zoom crushed Google in enterprise video conferencing.
Google: 1) owns calendaring, 2) has a video conferencing product, 3) has built video products at incredible scale, & 4) has many of the best engs on earth.
And yet Hangouts is much glitchier/worse than Zoom.
— Leo Polovets (@lpolovets) July 4, 2019
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