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Triumphs and Troubles in Online Learning Abroad

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Today, online education provides access to great masses of college students in the developing world, with Open Universities in Bangladesh, Iran, Pakistan, South Africa and Turkey together currently enrolling more than 7 million students. Modest by comparison, Western Governors University, the largest in the U.S., During the global crisis, 1.6

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From Good Intentions to Real Shortcomings: An Edtech Reckoning

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As the bubbly enthusiasm in the democratizing power of platforms like Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and Khan Academy quietly wanes, we’ve seen more attention to digital inequity like the homework gap and gender discrimination in coding careers. This was despite the fact that all three schools had the same levels of technology access.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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From the FCC : “Fact Sheet on Broadband Consumer Privacy Proposal.” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “Aftermath of the MOOC wars: Can commercial vendors support creative higher education ? A Techcrunch op-ed : “Why edtech can’t grow as much as healthtech.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via The New York Times : “ Broadband Law Could Force Rural Residents Off Information Superhighway.” The lawsuit contends that the publisher is “ predatory ” because it charges scholars to have their work published in open-access journals. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”).

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via Edsurge : “From Neutrality to Inequality: Why the FCC Is Dismantling Equal Access and What It Could Mean for Education.” Via Wired : “ Koch Brothers Are Cities’ New Obstacle to Building Broadband.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Billion in 2017.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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.” “Modern E-Rate Puts Telephones On Hold in K–12,” Education Week reports , noting that schools are struggling to pay for phone service (still totally necessary) as well as expanded broadband. ” More on this scramble to serve (profit from) low-income broadband customers in the upgrades/downgrades section below.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Edsurge runs with Trump’s promise to boost rural broadband like it’s a truth anyone can count on. Via Nature : “One of the world’s largest science publishers, Elsevier , won a default legal judgement on 21 June against websites that provide illicit access to tens of millions of research papers and books.