Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

” (For what it’s worth, Kleiner Perkins made just one major investment in education in 2017, participating in Coursera’s $64 million round this summer. Some of this is what Jane Mayer describes in her 2016 book Dark Money – the powerful and secretive networks of right-wing billionaire activists.

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Hack Education

APRIL 14, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via the Coursera blog : “New mobile features: Transcripts, notes, and reminders.” ” “The Current State of Educational Blogging 2016,” according to Edublogs’ Sue Waters. ” Udacity has updated its online "classroom."

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 14, 2016

There’s less than a month left of the 2016 Presidential campaign and The End can’t come soon enough. ” That for-profit is Laureate Education , the largest chain of for-profit schools in the world and an investor in Coursera. Presidential Campaign Politics. On Sunday, Clinton and Trump held their second debate.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Under a Trump administration: I very much want ed-tech companies and schools to reconsider collecting so much data about students — Audrey Watters (@audreywatters) November 10, 2016. 2016 underscored that security flaws aren’t solely a problem of educational institutions and government agencies.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 5, 2017

Tagged on: March 2, 2017 AERA Announces Most Read Education Research Articles of 2016 | AERA → AERA Open dominates the list of most read education research articles in 2016. Who would have ever guessed that open access publishing leads to the wider dissemination of ideas?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

The total dollars invested in 2016 are off by about $2 billion from this time last year; the number of deals are down by a third; and the number of acquisitions are off by about 20%. Or lack thereof – see “ The 2016 Ed-Tech Dead Pool.”). Daphne Koller left Coursera this year. Funding has shrunk.

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Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

” Via DelawareOnline : “The first step to reducing violence among young people is to have police officers assigned to elementary and middle schools, says a coalition of state officials, education administrators and police.” He was an instructor in one of several high-profile Coursera failures back in 2013.

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