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

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In 2002, our team at Microsoft Education created an LMS for a world where every teacher and student had a tablet computer. 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. But the most interesting developments are happening a little further downstream.

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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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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 ?”