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Hoping to Spur 'Learning Engineering,' Carnegie Mellon Will Open-Source Its Digital-Learning Software

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In an unusual move intended to shake up how college teaching is done around the world, Carnegie Mellon University today announced that it will give away dozens of the digital-learning software tools it has built over more than a decade—and make their underlying code available for anyone to see and modify.

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'The Brave Little Surveillance Bear' and Other Stories We Tell About Robots Raising Children

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No doubt, today’s technology companies view students and schools as a largely untapped market. Technology companies – particularly those hawking aspirational, education-related products – have long viewed parents in a similar way. Mattel is, after all, a toy company with lots of intellectual property.

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The Rough Beasts of Ed-Tech

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Sea Monkeys, x-ray googles, and invisibility helmets, much like all education technology products, base a lot of of their marketing on assurances and performances of scientific amazement and technological progress. Just call your credit card company and ask for an extension on your line of credit, instructors purportedly told students.