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What Happens When Ed-Tech Forgets? Some Thoughts on Rehabilitating Reputations

Hack Education

Despite the failure of AllLearn, in 2014, Levin was named the CEO of Coursera. Columbia University invested $30 million into its own online learning initiative, Fathom, that opened in 2000 and closed in 2003. Coursera founder Daphne Koller. we'd see as the failure of Coursera. And guess who else is back?

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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

Edsurge

As recently as 1997, only 27 percent of America’s K-12 school had internet access—a number that skyrocketed to 92 percent by 2003. ASU Global Freshman Academy, Coursera and edX have taken the StraighterLine model—and pushed it even further. billion in 2010.

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