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Making Sense of the Metaverse in Education

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It lives in a network of interconnected computers and includes a range of free, accessible, and decentralized games, communities, and venues for interaction. In addition, Eduverse provides access to educational VR content and offers the “first educational VR theme park.” What is the metaverse?

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The Asian Money Fueling US Edtech Investments

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9 million (A) 2016 Fosun Group Kaymbu $2 million (Seed) 2016 Sinovation Ventures Knewton $52 million (F) 2016 TAL Education KnowRe $6.8 edtech startups, including Enuma , Knewton , Minerva Project , Ready4 and Volley. Sinovation also funds companies in other technology sectors including robotics and Big Data.) edtech startups.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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The hope is that if what would normally take 10,000 hours could be shortened to 1,000, and be done via methods that are more affordable and accessible, many more people can become experts. That kind of feedback would be perfect if you had a robot learner on the other end,” he says.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via Campus Technology : “ Knewton Releases $44 Adaptive Digital Textbooks.” Via Edsurge : “ Smithsonian Forms ‘Strategic Alliance’ With Carnegie Learning to Build New STEM Products.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” The firm: KPMG. ” Some “fix.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

The open-access publisher PLOS has a new CEO : Alison Mudditt. Via Edsurge : “ Pearson , an Investor in Knewton , Is ‘Phasing Out’ Partnership on Adaptive Products.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Via The Verge : “Elon Musk-backed OpenAI is teaching robots how to learn just like humans do.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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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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Hack Education Weekly News

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” The proposed bill would eliminate the 15-year time limit on accessing education benefits. ” More on the Afghan robotics team in the contest section below. ” Via Education Dive : “ Coursera ’s Tom Willerer talks personalization, access.” for Robotics Contest.”