All posts by Henry Kronk
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Three Experiments in Student Blogging
October 19, 2017 Henry Kronk
“[I]n final blog posts we observed that the students mostly reflected on progress in creating complex compound types of sentences and lexical variety,”…
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Meet Apollo Global Management, the Biggest For-Profit Education Group in the World
October 18, 2017 Henry Kronk
In the efforts to turn the education group’s former holdings lean, Apollo Global hasn’t just targeted the in-person facets of for-profit education. The…
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Educating with VR Is Still Pricey, But Costs Are Dropping
October 16, 2017 Henry Kronk
Most schools and institutions are still a long way off from effectively implementing VR-based education and training modules. And the challenge, in most…
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MOOCs Are Dead?
October 14, 2017 Henry Kronk
MOOCs didn’t turn out to be silver bullets (and neither have for-profit spin offs), but there’s also good reason to welcome new analogues.
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Why Is Live Interactive Video Streaming So Rare Among MOOCs and LMSs?
October 13, 2017 Henry Kronk
According to eLearning expert Judith Boettcher, “we learn as social beings in a social context.” In other words, a lack of person-to-person contact…
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The Shaw Academy, an Irish Challenger to Silicon MOOCs, Is Over Halfway to their Crowdfunding Goal
October 12, 2017 Henry Kronk
Since MOOCs first exploded in 2011-2012, they have mostly centered around Silicon Valley. There is little indication that will change any time soon.…
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Sheikh Mohammed Unveils Ambitious Translation Project to Provide Free and Open Education Resources
October 07, 2017 Henry Kronk
This initiative comes as a huge win for education in an open internet. If support continues and the initiative succeeds, it will mark…
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MOOCs, Touted as an Avenue to Educate Anyone, Leave English Learners Behind
October 04, 2017 Henry Kronk
With the increasing popularity of the online degree and the widespread availability of massive open online courses (MOOCs), the barriers to entry for…
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Moodle, the Ideological Online Education Provider, Finds a Conscientious Investor
October 03, 2017 Henry Kronk
On September 27th, Moodle—by all rights the most widely used online education platform in the world—made a big announcement: they had found an…
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For-Profit MOOC Providers Are Pushing Margins First and Changing the World Second
October 02, 2017 Henry Kronk
In mid-September, the nanodegree pioneer Udacity announced it would be partnering with Lyft to offer a new Self-Driving Car (SDC) introduction course. The…
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