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Your Syllabus to SXSW EDU 2019 (and Where to Find Us!)

Edsurge

Companies include an AI robot, student incubator and a startup called Pie for Providers. But it’s become increasingly unclear if online learning is living up to its promise for students, as concerns persist over quality, inequitable disparities in digital-learning participants and outcomes. Tuesday, March 5, 4 p.m.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

In 2011, Barber went to work for Pearson as its Chief Education Advisor, continuing his advocacy for competition, data collection, measurements, and standards-based reforms. He told NPR in 2015 that Knewton’s adaptive learning software was a “mind-reading robo tutor in the sky.” But the “spying” has continued. Crested Pigeon.

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