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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. I missed this news back in February: Chegg acquired RefMe. million in revenue in 2015, and its executive compensation was $2.8 Phil Hill on an “LMS Revival: D2L picking up new customers and showing they can listen.” Tech Researcher Costumed as Car Seat.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” A data breach at Chegg – more details in the data and surveillance section below. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. “Culturally Sensitive Robots Are Here to Care for the Elderly ,” Futurism.com claims. Remember: robots for the elderly share a direct connection to MOOCs replacing higher ed.).

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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. The startup was later sold to Valore Education in 2015 , which was in turn acquired by Follett in 2016 , which in turn shut down the Boundless site in 2017. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.

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