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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

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Some of this is what Jane Mayer describes in her 2016 book Dark Money – the powerful and secretive networks of right-wing billionaire activists. Wonder Workshop (robotics) – $41 million. Robotics , with ~ $99 million in funding. Perhaps that name, Betsy DeVos, is familiar. But the results are not uniformly positive.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill on “ Schoology , NEO, Claroline, Chamilo: The beginning of the LMS long tail.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. “What if Your Favorite Teacher was a Robot?”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “ Coursera ’s New Strategy Takes Inspiration From Netflix – and LinkedIn.” ” There’s more MOOC-related research in the research section below. Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill on layoffs at the LMS Schoology.