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

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"I don't even know why we study history. 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.

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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. . “Can You Buy a New Job?

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Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via the Coursera blog : “New mobile features: Transcripts, notes, and reminders.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “New study suggests female professors outperform men in terms of service – to their possible professional detriment.”

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” Via Chalkbeat : “ Trump education nominee pleads ignorance about high-profile voucher studies showing negative results.” This group of older borrowers collectively hold $247 billion in student debt, an amount that has roughly tripled since 2003.” ” Via NPR : “New Study Finds That 4.2