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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Online education pioneer Tony Bates asks “ What is online learning ?” ” Via NBC News : “How to Thrive: Arianna Huffington Launches E-Learning Series.” ” EdX has launched some new “professional certificate programs.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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The popularity of sites like Khan Academy helped fuel the narrative that video could teach anything and that YouTube would “ reinvent education ” — funny, as Thomas Edison thought the same thing about film back in 1922. He told NPR in 2015 that Knewton’s adaptive learning software was a “mind-reading robo tutor in the sky.”

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