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OCTOBER 7, 2016

It’s not really “free Internet,” of course – it’s Facebook as Internet. From the FCC : “Fact Sheet on Broadband Consumer Privacy Proposal.” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Investor Fred Wilson on “ Chromebooks in K–12.” Raise $146.1

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OCTOBER 14, 2016

.” “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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JUNE 16, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Big HR news about Coursera in the HR section below. Here’s the headline from Inside Higher Ed : “For-Credit MOOC: Best of Both Worlds at MIT ?” ” But if you look closer, it’s not a MOOC; it’s just an online class at MIT.

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APRIL 28, 2017

” The Trump Administration is calling it “ restoring Internet freedom ,” because of f **g course. ” Via Multichannel News : “Trayvon Martin Attorney Parks Targets AT&T Over Alleged Broadband Redlining.” Via Techcrunch : “As Chromebook sales soar in schools, Apple and Microsoft fight back.”

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MARCH 3, 2017

Via Techcrunch : “ FCC votes to negate broadband privacy rules.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Inside Higher Ed on online education at Simmons College. More on MOOC and online education research in the research section below. Luster lost to Chromebooks, apparently.

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MARCH 31, 2017

“Higher education and library associations called on the Federal Communications Commission Thursday to uphold Obama-era rules requiring broadband providers to treat all traffic on the internet equally,” Inside Higher Ed reports. MasterClass has raised $35 million “to expand celebrity-led courses.”

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DECEMBER 15, 2017

Via Pacific Standard : “Why Is the FCC Considering Cutting Broadband Access for Students?” ” Apparently it’s all Audre Lorde ’s fault, because of course it is. MOOCs are out. Chromebooks. Not Net Neutrality, but another potential FCC move – ending the E-Rate program. Bootcamps are in.

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