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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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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). MOOCs are back in the headlines again. Via Edsurge : “The Second Wave of MOOC Hype Is Here, and It’s Online Degrees.” Economy by 2030.” ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” Via Edsurge : “ Elon U.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” (Note: there’s a response to this article by Georgia Tech professor Ashok Goel, who builds teaching chat-bots, in the “robots” section below. ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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The** Department of Education** has selected the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education to manage its #GoOpen campaign. ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” There’s some Udacity-related MOOC news in the job training section below. The Business of Job Training.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via The USA Today : “Kids on winning robotics team told, ‘Go back to Mexico’ ” The kids were from Pleasant Run Elementary School in Indianapolis. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ Coursera Removes Biometric Identity Verification Using Keystroke Matching,” Class Central reports.

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” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “How Much Hollywood Glitz Should Colleges Use in Their Online Courses ?” Amy Silverman writes in The Phoenix New Times about ASU ’s decision not to approve a disability studies major. But anyway… Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” No.

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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.