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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Kaplan Will Offer Free Online PSAT Prep.” More on Coursera and certification in the certification section below.). When Coursera announced its pivot to corporate training, it boasted that its certificates were the second most frequently listed on LinkedIn. ” More via Techcrunch.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Founded in 2008 by a former Kaplan executive Jose Ferreira, Knewton was one of the most heavily funded ed-tech startups of the decade. Ferreira boasted at a Department of Education “Datapalooza” in 2012 that “We literally know everything about what you know and how you learn best, everything.

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Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “As Kaplan Sale Faces Final Hurdle, Purdue President Criticizes Faculty Opponents.” Imperial College London will teach a class on artificial intelligence on the Coursera platform. The “ invisible ” “adaptive learning” company has raised $38.7