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SXSWedu 2017: Ones to Watch and What to Know

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Let’s Chat.Bots in Higher Education : What if all of your college questions could be answered by sending a text or Facebook message? Companies like Microsoft, Facebook and Google are all dipping their toes into virtual and augmented reality. Will VR Really Impact Student Outcomes? But will VR and AR live up to its hype?

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

I was inspired, I think, to select that topic because talk of “platforms” was incredibly popular in Silicon Valley – it had been for a while – as companies strove to become “the next Facebook.” ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. Think Facebook.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Just a few weeks after Daphne Koller ’s announcement she was leaving the MOOC startup she co-founded, Coursera unveiled “ Coursera for Business ” this week, marking its pivot from “democratizing higher ed” to “ training corporate employees.”

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The Rough Beasts of Ed-Tech

Hack Education

Indeed, I can’t go anywhere these days – inside or outside the US, on- or offline – without hearing panicky questions and proclamations about November 2016, the upcoming Presidential Election, and what the hell is going on with Donald Trump. What are MOOCs, for example? What are virtual learning environments?

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). “The MOOC is not dead, but maybe it should be,” says Rolin Moe. Via The New York Times : “ Facebook Says Cambridge Analytica Harvested Data of Up to 87 Million Users.” Reminder that Facebook built the Summit Learning Platform.).

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

on Election Day 2016, closed at post-election high of $17.85 In the future, you might want to look for most MOOC-related news in the “business of job training” section below. ” Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg will offer a scholarship “to ‘cut through’ unequal access to opportunity.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

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”).