Hack Education

APRIL 13, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). “ Can a For-Profit, Venture-Backed Company Keep OER Free – and Be Financially Sustainable? The company sells a tablet for use in prison. million for the company – but of that just $15 million is cash; the rest is equity in NetDragon.

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Hack Education

JULY 13, 2018

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). “ Microsoft Hopes to Revive Its Education Tablet Efforts With the New $399 Surface Go,” says Edsurge. The company has raised $20.4 The company, which claims it’s like “LinkedIn for students,” has raised $14.1

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Or it will raise a bunch of venture capital to support its “free” offering for a while, and then the company will get acquired and the product will go away. And “free” doesn’t last. Sometimes they strike a deal.

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Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

the Virginia company at the heart of the operation.” Here’s the EdWeek headline: “ Company Exec. for Ed-Tech Company Testifies in Ala. ” Gee, good thing no one else in ed-tech is in the business of selling these sorts of connections between companies and politicians and schools! ” Ugh.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). It’s baaaaack: “Return of the MOOC ,” The City Journal tells us. There’s some (sorta) MOOC-related news in the venture funding section below. Because MOOCs on an airplane proved to be such an effective mode of instruction.

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