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Hack Education Weekly News

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” “Examining Trends in Graduate Student Debt by Race and Ethnicity” by Seton Hall University professor Robert Kelchen. Chegg has acquired WriteLab for $15 million. Via The Associated Press : “Schools See Steep Drop in Librarians , New Analysis Finds.” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. Kno was headed by Osman Rashid, the co-founder of the textbook rental company Chegg, and the tablet was aimed at the college market. They want the bundle. They don’t want “content loops.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Getting Smart and the XQ Institute have released a “landscape analysis of competency-based education.” “ Ed Tech Cybersecurity : Suppose they gave a data breach and nobody came,” writes Phil Hill on the Chegg data breach. Via The College Board : “Trends in College Pricing 2018.”