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Hack Education Weekly News

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No mention that Lexia Learning is owned by Rosetta Stone. ” Pearson and Chegg are partnering for textbook rentals. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. “ AI Learns Gender and Racial Biases from Language” says Jeremy Hsu in IEEE Spectrum. The adaptive learning company has raised $16 million total.

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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. He told NPR in 2015 that Knewton’s adaptive learning software was a “mind-reading robo tutor in the sky.” Robot essay graders — they grade just the same as human ones. Chatbot Instructors.

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