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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. I don’t believe that robots will take, let alone need take, all our jobs. The quotation is from 2012.

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

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.” Note the significant difference in language in this headline from The Verge , for example – “ Harvard’s Root robot teaches kids how to code ” – and the way in which Seymour would describe the LOGO Turtle – that students would using programming to teach the robot. See: the LMS, the MOOC.

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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.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Probably my favorite “robots are the future of education” story in a good, long while. Sound the education prediction klaxon.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). The startup, which something something MOOC something something, has raised $9.69 On the horizon: makerspaces, online learning, robotics, VR, artificial intelligence, and wearables. ” More on test scores and ed-tech in the research section below. million total.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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billion by 2025. In 2013, on the heels of “the Year of the MOOC,” Barber released a report titled “An Avalanche is Coming,” calling for the “unbundling” of higher education. MOOCs are, no surprise, their own entry on this long list of awfulness. Robot essay graders — they grade just the same as human ones.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” More on the Afghan robotics team in the contest section below. for Robotics Contest.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. The Getting Smart blog predicts that “By 2025, Swarms of Self-Driving Vehicles Will Transport Students to Learning Sites.” Education in the Courts. Contests and Awards.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Responses to last week’s news about Western Governors University and the audit of its competency-based offerings: Via NPR : “Who Is A College Teacher, Anyway? .” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” “ NCTM and the Math Forum ” by Tracy Zager.