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?Readers’ Roundup: EdSurge HigherEd’s Top 10 Articles of 2017

Edsurge

We’ve rounded up our 10 most popular articles from 2017, as picked by our readers. Here’s the 2017 countdown, from #10 to #1. A few weeks after EdSurge probed the company about the silence, Amazon opened up the resource library to the public. What Happened to Google's Effort to Scan Millions of University Library Books?

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Wow Them with the Solar Eclipse on Aug. 21st!

Teacher Reboot Camp

Learners can join the Solar Eclipse 2017 Life Responds citizen science project and record eclipse-related animal behavior with the iNaturalist iOS/Android app. Take the free Coursera online course about the 2017 Solar Eclipse. A Resource Guide to Exploring Eclipses in General and the August 21, 2017 Total Eclipse of the Sun.

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Course Hero Joins the Edtech Unicorn Stable

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In 2017, the company started building a place where they can share their own syllabi, presentations, lesson plans, test questions and other course materials with their peers. Users who upload class materials can access the full library for free. These concerns have not deterred or disrupted the company’s growth.

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8 teacher-loved edtech tools to try in 2017

eSchool News

Coursera is known to work with both K-12 and higher education institutions and provide them with access to online courses. Well, Apple took its education effort to a new level by creating this tool, which is essentially a vast library of free educational resources. Explore and enjoy! For Online Courses/Blended Learning.

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?Filling the Other Skills Gap

Edsurge

An historically low labor force participation rate of 63 percent in September 2017 represents nearly 100 million Americans neither employed, nor looking for work. The likes of Coursera, Udacity, Udemy, MasterClass, Lynda, and Pluralsight have together raised more than $1 billion and represent combined enterprise value of more than $5 billion.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

From the press release : “FBI Releases 2017 Hate Crime Statistics.” From the Coursera blog : “Announcing ‘ AI for Everyone ’: a new course from deeplearning.ai on Coursera.” is the new company of Andrew Ng , Coursera’s co-founder.) ” (deeplearning.ai More from Edsurge.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Sante Fe University of Art and Design will close at the end of the 2017–2018 school year. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via the Coursera blog : “New mobile features: Transcripts, notes, and reminders.” Via Edsurge : “Tech Needs More Than Coders. ” LOL, okay.