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Hack Education Weekly News

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It's rolling out a social media push today using the hashtag #DontSettle4Cs to promote the program, called March2Success. Coursera ’s Daphne Koller announced in a blog post that she’s leaving the MOOC company she co-founded to work at a Alphabet (a.k.a. ” Social-emotional learning and VR. Innovation!

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

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Either way, he’s gone too soon; we’ve lost too much , too many in 2016. pic.twitter.com/BBhsgwY2FZ — Audrey Watters (@audreywatters) August 1, 2016. ” MOOC startups like Udacity and Coursera have also rebranded to target this particular post-secondary technical training market. Read Mindstorms.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via the Coursera blog : “Announcing the Global MBA from Macquarie University.” ” ClassDojo is now a full social media platform for schools - this letter & video just emailed to parents. ACICS oversees accreditation for many for-profit colleges and universities. SDG Academy has joined edX.

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Here is venture capital well spent: “ Coursera Promotes Its ‘Affordable Online Courses’ With New TV Ad Spots ,” says Class Central. tl;dr: emailing them, holding webinars, using social media. ” That’d be Glenn Reynolds , @instapundit , who also briefly had his Twitter account suspended.

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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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Via Techcrunch : “ Google and Coursera launch program to train more IT support specialists.” ” More on teen social media usage, this time from Buzzfeed : “‘Tweetdecking’ Is Taking Over Twitter. ” The Atlantic on what it’s like being a parent of a social media star.

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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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