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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Curating the Best Content for Learning , Spending on education technology is now in the tens of billions dollars as schools push for broadband, computer labs, and 1-to-1 tablets. Special thanks for this go to our sponsor, Blackboard Collaborate, for providing the service that allows us to do this! But what about content?

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Education Week : “ Trump Signs Orders on Rural Broadband Access.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” From the press release : “ Blackboard Announces Organizational Changes to Better Serve Clients Worldwide.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” JFC.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via Multichannel News : “Trayvon Martin Attorney Parks Targets AT&T Over Alleged Broadband Redlining.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Online education pioneer Tony Bates asks “ What is online learning ?” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” (In Cleveland.).

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Vive la MOOC révolution. ” “Orphan MOOCs and the Digital Dark Ages” by Jeffrey Pomerantz in Hybrid Pedagogy. ” There’s more licensing and certification news in the MOOC section above. A teacher in front of a blackboard.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

“ FCC Delays Are Keeping Broadband From Rural School Kids,” says Wired. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” Via Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill : “Comparing the First Ten Years of Blackboard and Instructure in LMS Market.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). And I’m not sure if Udacity now better fits here in this for-profit higher ed section, but there’s news about it in the MOOC section above. ” Via The Wall Street Journal : “THL Hires Ex- Blackboard Exec to Hunt for Tech Deals.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “When the Teaching Assistant Is a Robot.” Blackboard has acquired Fronteer , a software company that helps make course materials accessible. ” There’s more testing news in the courts section above.