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Where do Brainscape's certified MBE flashcards come from? (And are they legit?)

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These instructors then scoured textbooks, past exams, and materials by top bar prep courses like BarBri, Themis, Critical Pass, BarMax, Kaplan to ensure that our MBE flashcards weren't missing any of the important concepts that others were covering. In-sync studying across Brainscape’s website and all your iOS and Android devices.

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(This Is Not a Morphology of) The Monsters of Education Technology

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” (This time, of course, with an Android phone strapped to their face.). . “Wouldn’t it be awesome if we could hold college lectures in virtual reality?” ” “Wouldn’t it be awesome if students could watch moving images about other places and other cultures?” The ghosts of broken promises.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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More on last week’s Purdue and Kaplan deal: “ Purdue ’s deal for Kaplan U trades a long-term business relationship for low up-front costs while raising worries – especially among faculty groups – about blurred lines between public and private higher ed,” Inside Higher Ed reports. .”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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The following year, Negroponte boasted that “within two weeks, [children] were singing ABC songs in the village, and within five months, they had hacked Android.” Founded in 2008 by a former Kaplan executive Jose Ferreira, Knewton was one of the most heavily funded ed-tech startups of the decade.

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