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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “ Andrew Ng , Co-Founder of Coursera , Returns to MOOC Teaching With New AI Course.” ” Via Techcrunch : “ Sony wants to digitize education records using the blockchain.” .” Via Reuters : “Some U.S.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Techcrunch : “ Sony now has a Koov robotics learning kit for US classrooms.” Emmersion Learning has raised $600,000 from Zylun Global and Access to Education. ” It’s $520. Kaleidoscope Group has raised $1.3 million total.

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Education Technology and the History of the Future of Credentialing

Hack Education

Students at these schools will not immediately lose access to financial aid – that’s one of the implications of an institution’s loss of accreditation – but many students are rightly concerned about their ability to finish their degrees. ” MOOCs for credit. Keep Away From Coding Schools.”