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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

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Nevertheless, computer science education, along with STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) continued to be promoted this year, often framed as something students should pursue instead of “ liberal arts.” “Hardly Anyone Wants to Take a Liberal Arts MOOC,” Edsurge informed its readers in February. .”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Congratulations, STEM folks and learn-to-code evangelists, for being featured in President Trump’s list of his 2017 accomplishments. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). The English-language-learning company has raised $608 million total. You must be so proud.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Michael Feldstein argued that the “meaninglessness” of Purdue’s claims were important for the ed-tech community to grapple with, in no small part because many other learning analytics systems had been modeled on the Course Signals work. MOOCs are, no surprise, their own entry on this long list of awfulness. Uber for Education". “We

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