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Elite Colleges Started EdX as a Nonprofit Alternative to Coursera. How Is It Doing?

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It has the most users of any provider of MOOCs (as the large-scale online courses are sometimes called), claiming more than 77 million learners. And how is edX doing by comparison? Dhawal Shaw, founder of MOOC-discovery platform Class Central. EdX is like a distant No. It’s important to our partners.”

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

Hack Education

” – 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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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

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However, at each level—middle school, high school, and college—these variations paled in comparison to a stunning and dismaying consistency. The free assessments include Google Docs assessments to copy and digital rubrics to download. That was certainly the case in our experience. What’s the evidence? What do other sources say?

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via Education Week : “ Trump Signs Orders on Rural Broadband Access.” Via The Verge : “James Damore sues Google for allegedly discriminating against conservative white men.” ” 69% of Google’s employees are men. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”).

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

“ President Trump Earmarks $200 Million in Federal Grants for STEM , Computer Science Programs ,” says Edsurge , later swooning that “ Google , Facebook , Amazon Among Tech Titans Committing $300 Million to K–12 Computer Science.” Adults Outperformed by Rest of Developed World in Numeracy , New Comparison Finds.”