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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. ” Gartner says, rather vaguely, that it relies on scenarios and surveys and pattern recognition to place technologies on the line.

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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 ” It would be great if there were independent evaluations of bootcamps, not just this self-reported survey stuff. OpenClassrooms has raised $6.74 million total. But rah rah rah!

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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. Interactive Whiteboards. billion by 2023. Uber for Education". “We

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Education Technology and the History of the Future of Credentialing

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According to a survey by the career search engine Career Builder , “Nearly a third of employers say they have increased their educational requirements over the past five years. The foundation says it’s committed to boosting the number of Americans who have some “quality postsecondary credential” to 60% by 2025.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “The University of California, Los Angeles , is planning a major expansion in the online certificate and graduate degree markets that it hopes will reach as many as 15,000 students by early next decade,” Inside Higher Ed reports. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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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? .” Resources , But Grasp Is Surface-Level, Survey Finds.” Rural ones.”