Hack Education

APRIL 13, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). The big “business of ed-tech” news of the week: Edmodo has been acquired by Chinese game-maker NetDragon. Edmodo had raised some $77.5 ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “New Study on Income-Driven Repayment Plans.” million total.

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Hack Education

APRIL 3, 2017

Rather it’s a history itself – ideally one that’s useful for our thinking about the past, present, and future in the way in which the study of history always should be. An advocacy for libertarian politics – think Peter Thiel (a Stanford graduate) now advising Donald Trump. A belief in technological utopia.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. For their part, critics of laptop bans claimed the studies the op-eds frequently cite were flawed, reductive, and out-of-date. The Intel Education Study App has now too been discontinued. And on and on and on.

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