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Harvard and MIT Launch Nonprofit to Increase College Access

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What would you do if you had $800 million to build a new nonprofit to support innovation in online learning? The $800 million underpinning the effort derived from a controversial decision by the two universities in 2021 to sell their edX online learning platform to 2U.

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Facebook Seems to Be Adding Video-Course Features. For Edtech, That Raises Old Fears.

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Facebook Classes for Events ‘Classes’ is new event type which can be selected when creating a new online event on Facebook. It aims to make it easier to instruct and discover a class on Facebook pic.twitter.com/L0BvBuTXkM — Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra) January 21, 2021.

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Three big ed tech projects: cashing out or historic investments?

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As Paul Fain put it , “MOOCs have become OPMs.” ” Well-placed source on 2U's acquisition of edX for $800M — "It simply formalizes what we knew: MOOCs have become OPMs." — Paul Fain (@paulfain) June 29, 2021. COVID-19 may have increased investments as so much of higher ed moved online.

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VHS Learning Partners with Continental Han Feng Network Technology to Develop Chinese Language Program

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CHF and VHS Learning are working collaboratively to develop Chinese 1 and Chinese 2 courses during the first year of this multi-year partnership and VHS Learning is training qualified teachers in preparation for releasing both courses in September 2021. “We

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Former Pearson, edX Exec Raises $7.5M to Build AI-Powered Digital Courseware

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While at edX Porter created the Open edX project, which has served more than 55 million learners taking massive open online courses, or MOOCs. Esme wants to transform the effectiveness of online learning, increasing both student engagement and the quality of course content.

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The Microlearning Moment in Workplace Learning

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Put simply, the short-lived recession of 2020 has given way to a massive shortage of workers and skills in 2021–and placed talent strategy and human capital back at the top of corporations’ strategic agendas. And employers are competing to attract and retain employees in what is being called a “ war for talent. ”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Big HR news about Coursera in the HR section below. Here’s the headline from Inside Higher Ed : “For-Credit MOOC: Best of Both Worlds at MIT ?” ” But if you look closer, it’s not a MOOC; it’s just an online class at MIT.