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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

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” MOOC startups like Udacity and Coursera have also rebranded to target this particular post-secondary technical training market. We also see it in many instances of adaptive-learning software. These unaccredited schools argue they’re best positioned to “ close the skills gap.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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billion by 2025. With all the charges of fraud and deceptive marketing levied against post-secondary institutions this decade — from ITT to coding bootcamps, from Trump University to the Draper University of Heroes — we might ask if, indeed, this is the way it works now. Interactive Whiteboards. billion by 2023. “And

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