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Guest post: Caston Binger Explains How the Digital Revolution Has Transformed Education

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They can now send messages and files electronically and connect with students through social media. It has made it easier for students to access information and collaborate. Easier For Students To Access information. Easier For Students To Access information. One great example of this is the website Coursera.

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STEMxCon - Today Is the Final Deadline for Proposals; Great Keynotes + Sessions; Need Volunteers!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Our Twitter hashtag is #stemx13, and we have some resources for publicizing at [link]. Karla Pobke Coordinator Personalised Learning Born Accessible STEM: Making Sure Accessibility is Not Just an Afterthought - Anh Bui Director of Product Strategy for Global Literacy Project-Based Learning: You''re almost doing it already!

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Headline changed from “ Coursera ’s Update Will Eliminate Hundreds of Courses” to “Coursera’s Update Will Migrate Hundreds of Courses to a New Platform.” ” Coursera, initially only emailing former students about their old course work, decided finally to blog about its platform change.

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It's rolling out a social media push today using the hashtag #DontSettle4Cs to promote the program, called March2Success. Coursera ’s Daphne Koller announced in a blog post that she’s leaving the MOOC company she co-founded to work at a Alphabet (a.k.a. million people since 2003.” Nice job there, Googler.).

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“Every Generation Gets the Beach Villain It Deserves” – The NYT’s Nellie Bowles on tech billionaire Vinod Khosla ’s attempts to restrict access to the California coastline near his mansion. Via the Coursera blog : “Announcing the Global MBA from Macquarie University.” .” More via NPR.

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Inside Higher Ed has more details on the University of California Berkeley ’s announcement that they’ll remove free online content rather than comply with a Justice Department demand to make it accessible to those with disabilities. tl;dr: emailing them, holding webinars, using social media. Heckuva job.

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Via Education Week : “One million high school students from low-income families will receive free internet access under President Barack Obama’s ’ My Brother’s Keeper’ initiative for minority males, the White House announced.” “Why For-Profit Education Fails ” by The Atlantic’s Jonathan A.