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Pros and Cons of Using eLearning Software in Your Classroom

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Coursera | Online Learning News for Learners, Educators, & Employers Coursera is a fascinating medium because it partners with prestigious universities, educational institutions, and even museums to provide students with online courses on a wide variety of topics. Follow me on Twitter and Google+.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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“ Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : ”Why Twitter Is Calling Abigail Fisher ’ Becky With the Bad Grades ’: A Brief Explainer.” From the Coursera blog : “Coursera pilots a new course format.” In other Coursera news : “ Atlassian sponsors computer science learners on Coursera.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Coursera has a new partner , the insurance company AXA , which will offer some 300 Coursera classes to its employees. Via EdWeek’s Market Brief : “ Adaptive Learning Products Gain Ground in K–12, Market Survey Finds.” There’s a nifty infographic, which Melinda Gates shared on Twitter. (

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Via Techcrunch : “ Google and Coursera launch program to train more IT support specialists.” ” More on teen social media usage, this time from Buzzfeed : “‘Tweetdecking’ Is Taking Over Twitter. He was a faculty member at Michigan State. The Business of Job Training. ” asks Edsurge.

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

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” The technology revolution has delivered Google searches, Facebook friends, iPhone apps, Twitter rants and shopping for almost anything on Amazon, all in the past decade and a half. ” MOOC startups like Udacity and Coursera have also rebranded to target this particular post-secondary technical training market.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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It is the instructional designer and tenured professor’s signal — “to the barricades!” — and everyone snipes at the other side from the Twitter trenches for a week, until there’s an unspoken truce that lasts until the next “ban laptops” op-ed gets published. A “ban laptops” op-ed may be the greatest piece of ed-tech clickbait ever devised.

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