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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Carmona, Lead Contract English Instructor Student-Generated Apps for Mobile Devices – can they enhance higher levels of understanding? Derek Barkalow, Ph.D.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Coursera highlights its mentors – its volunteer mentors – on its blog. iNACOL has released a report on advocacy for competency-based education. Via Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill : “About That Cengage OER Survey.” Raise $146.1 million in venture funding; ask people to work for you for free.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. Coursera has raised over $310 million. This “reverse engineering,” the publishers claimed, violated copyright. Investors continued to fund MOOCs nonetheless.

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He was an instructor in one of several high-profile Coursera failures back in 2013. ” From Lumen Learning’s David Wiley : “Some Lessons Learned Supporting OER Adoption.” According to the conservative news site The Daily Caller , “Bailing On Common Core Tests Is Costing States Millions.”