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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via the Coursera blog : “New mobile features: Transcripts, notes, and reminders.” " It’s lovely to see the big innovation from the MOOC startups in 2017 involves the learning management system. No mention that Lexia Learning is owned by Rosetta Stone.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Kno was headed by Osman Rashid, the co-founder of the textbook rental company Chegg, and the tablet was aimed at the college market. Indeed, young people prefer learning from YouTube than from textbooks — according, ironically, to Pearson. Because we have five orders of magnitude more data about you than Google has.

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