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

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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

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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. SchoolNet built and marketed an “instructional management system” that aimed to deliver useful data about student progress to teachers and administrators.

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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.” The Omidyar Network has invested $850,000 in the “future of tech” research organization Data & Society. ” Udacity has updated its online "classroom."

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Hack Education Weekly News

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million people since 2003.” Coursera ’s Daphne Koller announced in a blog post that she’s leaving the MOOC company she co-founded to work at a Alphabet (a.k.a. Coursera’s other founder, Andrew Ng, left the startup several years ago to join the Chinese search engine Baidu. Google) biotech company, Calico.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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. “Schools across the country are about to be held accountable for student attendance – attaching stakes to a measure that previously had much less significance and increasing the risk that schools will try to manipulate that data,” according to Chalkbeat’s Matt Barnum. ” “Whatever Happened To MOOCs ?”