The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

The logical extension of such policies – permitting students to take individual courses wherever they wish, by using online options – has already begun to take root in about a dozen states. Under such plans, the funding for a course taken by an individual student goes to the school or online company offering the course, often away from the student’s local district. So far, only a tiny fraction of eligible students have enrolled for online classes.

Course 56

Course Policies Accessibility Company 56

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. (It’s Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning. The] literature [on online education] was preoccupied with what I call ‘roaming autodidacts’.

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Pearson MOOC Knewton Khan Academy 88