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

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Although we were convinced that technology could transform education, simple internet access was patchy at best. 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. The web was increasing its use of graphics, but had barely adopted video.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via the Coursera blog : “New mobile features: Transcripts, notes, and reminders.” “Ed access to VR growing as low-cost options expand,” says Education Dive. ” Udacity has updated its online "classroom." Then Deeper Questions Emerged.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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This group of older borrowers collectively hold $247 billion in student debt, an amount that has roughly tripled since 2003.” Coursera announces on its blog that it’s expanding to Brazil. Here’s Coursera arguing “Why Everyone Should Learn Sales.” ” “Whatever Happened To MOOCs ?”