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Hack Education Weekly News

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From the Coursera blog : “Building India ’s Workforce for 2020.” Chegg has acquired Cogeon for $15 million. “Higher Education, Digital Divides , and a Balkanized Internet” by Bryan Alexander. Chuck about his work on MOOCs with Coursera. ( Another education IPO – the second of the year.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, Um, they do.) " Other teachers said that bathroom accidents were common.

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