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Hack Education Weekly News

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.” Pearson and Chegg are partnering for textbook rentals. In other STEM news, Pornhub awards a “women in tech” scholarship. The adaptive learning company has raised $16 million total. “Ed access to VR growing as low-cost options expand,” says Education Dive.

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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.” Because we have five orders of magnitude more data about you than Google has.

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