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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

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” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity. The quotation is from 2012.

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Why the Lumina Foundation Is Betting Big on New Kinds of Credentials

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A number of years ago, we set a goal for the nation that by 2025, 60 percent of Americans will hold a high-quality certificate, degree, or other high-quality credential. We estimate about 65 percent of jobs in 2025 will require some form of post-secondary education. We just want to make sure that everyone can access that.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Class Central : “ Monetizing A MOOC Platform.” ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Purdue pilot program restricts access to sites such as Netflix and Hulu in specific lecture halls.” Here’s What It Found Out.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. billion by 2025. Um, they do.) Interactive Whiteboards.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). UC Berkeley says it will remove online course content in response to a Department of Justice assertion that the materials violate the ADA as they are not fully accessible to those with disabilities. The startup, which something something MOOC something something, has raised $9.69

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Education Technology and the History of the Future of Credentialing

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Students at these schools will not immediately lose access to financial aid – that’s one of the implications of an institution’s loss of accreditation – but many students are rightly concerned about their ability to finish their degrees. ” MOOCs for credit. Keep Away From Coding Schools.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” The proposed bill would eliminate the 15-year time limit on accessing education benefits. ” Via Education Dive : “ Coursera ’s Tom Willerer talks personalization, access.” The Getting Smart blog predicts that “By 2025, Swarms of Self-Driving Vehicles Will Transport Students to Learning Sites.”