Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2020

Early reports indicate that many blue-chip companies have begun to freeze or rescind hiring offers to graduating students. Consistent with past recessions, many companies are being forced to cut or freeze benefits such as 401(k) contributions. In addition, internships are being canceled.

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Wired Campus

MARCH 10, 2015

Students would meet in virtual classrooms where they would discuss course material using videoconferencing technology. In 2007 it became one of the first elite institutions to post lecture videos online at no charge. In 2013 it joined with Coursera and started building MOOCs.

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Wired Campus

OCTOBER 10, 2015

Horn, a co-founder of the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation, stepped down Friday as director of its education program to begin working more directly with companies in the education market. In higher education, at least, Mr. Horn is probably better known than his organization, which he helped found in 2007.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Even before a deluge of fibs and fakery swamped our recent election cycle, Wineburg and company realized that readers of online news need many of the same skills used by a good historian, such as identifying the sources of claims and asking questions about their evidence. My students are all about social media.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

Not really ed-tech-related, except for all those companies saying they’re “Uber for education.” ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “ Andrew Ng , Co-Founder of Coursera , Returns to MOOC Teaching With New AI Course.” The company has $8.3

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Or it will raise a bunch of venture capital to support its “free” offering for a while, and then the company will get acquired and the product will go away. And “free” doesn’t last. Wedge Tailed Green Pigeon.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Here’s a science textbook I was assigned at his school in 2007. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via George Veletsianos : “A large-scale study of Twitter Use in MOOCs.” ” Research finds there’s a " global achievement gap in MOOCs. Jerry Falwell Jr. " No s**t.

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