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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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Only 58% of students who started college in 2012 had graduated 6 years later. If both happen together, that’s a 9x improvement in the rate of learning.” The system sends students a text or e-mail 24 to 48 hours after a class, with one multiple-choice question about the material.

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Monica Crowley , Trump’s pick for director of strategic communications for the National Security Council, has decided to not take a position with the new administration following revelations about her plagiarizing her dissertation and her 2012 book. Justin Reich on “ assessment ” versus “ evaluation.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. 3D printing, The Economist pronounced in 2012 , was poised to bring about the third industrial revolution. (I Publishers have sought to restrict libraries’ access to e-book lending, for example, blaming libraries for declining sales.

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” Via Inside Higher Ed : “Two debt collectors said in separate statements this week that they will not assess collection fees on defaulted student loan borrowers who quickly enter repayment, despite new guidance from the Department of Education.” officials approve new rating system.” ” Bye, Mercator. .

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Education's Online Futures

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And then there were MOOCs , of course, and all those predictions and all those promises about the end of college as we know it: “MOOCs make education borderless, gender-blind, race-blind, class-blind and bank account-blind” and similar fables. Vive la MOOC Révolution. Adam Medros became edX’s president and COO.

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