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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Private School With Low Vaccination Rates.” ” Via The Verge : “A Facebook patent would use your family photos to target ads.” .” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. ” Via NPR : “ Chickenpox Outbreak Hits N.C.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via The Daily Beast : “ Palmer Luckey : The Facebook Near-Billionaire Secretly Funding Trump’s Meme Machine.” Well, one thing’s for certain: between this and Peter Thiel on its board, Facebook is well-positioned for a Trump presidency. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”).

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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. In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. 3D printing, The Economist pronounced in 2012 , was poised to bring about the third industrial revolution. (I

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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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