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A Decade of MOOCs: A Review of Stats and Trends for Large-Scale Online Courses in 2021

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In 2021, two of the biggest MOOC providers had an “exit” event. Now, a decade later, MOOCs have reached 220 million learners, excluding China where we don’t have as reliable data, In 2021, providers launched over 3,100 courses and 500 microcredentials. The company is expected to bring in more than $400 million in revenue in 2021.

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What If Finding Child Care Online Were as Easy as Making a Dinner Reservation?

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The idea to create a better statewide platform to aid families in finding care came out of recommendations released in fall 2021 from a task force created by Iowa Gov. These systems could also, Smigielski points out, help state leaders make an argument to the federal government that they need more funding.

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Reading Skills Are in Sharp Decline. Rescuing Them Won't be Easy.

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What started as a part-time gig for a couple of students in 2021 now keeps her busy six days a week. The federal government funneled millions of dollars into schools up until recently, in hopes of turning the tide of falling scores and keeping students on grade level.

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Government Funds Shielded Colleges From Extinction. In 2022, the Stakes Will Change.

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Of those funds, approximately $14 billion was designated as the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund, or HEERF. Then, in January 2021, the U.S. Department of Education announced an additional tranche of $21.2 billion to higher education. The CARES Act that Congress signed into law in March 2020 earmarked $2.2

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As Schools Prioritize Digital Literacy, My Students Are Being Left Behind

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When I began my classroom career in 2021, I expected my school would embody the same tech-forward identity I observed at the district level. During the pandemic, our district embodied this tech-forward identity by providing Chromebooks and hotspots for all students to go fully remote for an entire academic year of virtual learning.

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PROOF POINTS: Free, no frills programs lead the class in new federal study of remote learning

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Department of Education, called the Institute for Education Sciences, commissioned a report to wade through all the studies on education technology that can be used at home in order to find which ones were proven to work. The goal was to provide a quick guide for teachers and school leaders during remote instruction.

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PROOF POINTS: New wave of research shows nudging students by text is not as promising as hoped

The Hechinger Report

Based on these early successes, education leaders in government and nonprofit organizations sought to bring the power of text messages to hundreds of thousands of students. Source: “Nudging at scale: Experimental evidence from FAFSA completion campaigns,” March 2021 issue of Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.

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