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EdSurge HigherEd Year in Review: Our Top Higher Education Stories of 2018

Edsurge

While not quite the “Year of the MOOC,” 2018 saw a resurgence in interest around the ways these massive open online courses are delivering free (and more often these days, not free) online education around the world, and how these providers are increasingly turning to traditional institutions of learning. Cheating on Chegg?

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5 Ed-Tech Ideas Face The Chronicle’s Version of ‘Shark Tank’

Wired Campus

Freedman: I love where you started with the criticism of the MOOCs. I mean, MOOCs aren’t learning platforms, they’re distribution platforms. Setting very clear expectations around those things, norming and setting the goals and rules as a group so that everyone buys in is super-important. So they’ll still be in groups and teams.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

“Researchers say removal of an IRS tool for financial aid applicants may have slowed FAFSA submissions, while college aid groups warn that affected students could already be losing out on aid,” Inside Higher Ed reports. ” Pearson and Chegg are partnering for textbook rentals. “A bipartisan proposal in the U.S.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Inside Higher Ed : “Career Training Groups Encouraged by Trump Pick for CTE Job.” ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Techcrunch with the corporate PR : “For Apple , this year’s Global Accessibility Awareness Day is all about education.” It has raised $69.7

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Gotta keep that MOOC hype alive. “ MOOCs Find a New Audience with On-Campus Students,” Edsurge claims. ” A data breach at Chegg – more details in the data and surveillance section below. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via NPR : “‘Access to Literacy ’ Is Not a Constitutional Right , Judge in Detroit Rules.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Pacific Standard : “How Universities Facilitate Far-Right Groups’ Harassment of Students and Faculty.” 24 Kindergarten Classes.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

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. Um, they do.) Despite a few anecdotes, they’re really not.).

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