Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2022

It’s a digital world where internet users retain ownership of their online activities—their intellectual property, or IP—which are tracked by blockchains, which help everyone make money without having to rely on governments, institutions or corporations. In the developing world, most people don't even have access to Wi-Fi.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, Um, they do.) Despite a few anecdotes, they’re really not.).

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Via WaPo : “The FCC talks the talk on the digital divide – and then walks in the other direction.” ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “Should Online Courses Go Through ‘Beta Testing’?” NPR on MOOC Micromasters. ” That’s Gail Heriot.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Black, Latino, and Native students are less likely to have access to high-level math and science courses. Whether it’s selling schools or MOOCs or access to the Internet itself , technology companies and education companies are, as Edsurge put it, “ Building Effective Edtech Business Models to Reach the Global Poor.”

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Hack Education

MAY 27, 2016

In addition to funding this lawsuit, Thiel sits on the board of Facebook , which itself is playing a huge role in the “ future of news.” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). MOOCs for credit ! Also off campus, not on-: “ Unemployed Detroit Residents Are Trapped by a Digital Divide.”

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