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OCTOBER 27, 2017

Edsurge profiles Dr. Chuck about his work on MOOCs with Coursera. ( No disclosure in this or its Class Central article that it shares investors with these MOOC companies.). From the Coursera blog : “Building India ’s Workforce for 2020.” . “Reviving the MOOC ” – an op-ed by Stephen Downes.

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DECEMBER 7, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill analyzes a recent interview with Coursera ’s CEO and argues the MOOC provider is “betting on OPM market and shift to low-cost masters degrees.”

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DECEMBER 30, 2019

The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, Um, they do.) The Death of Aaron Swartz.

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JULY 14, 2017

” Via Education Dive : “ Coursera ’s Tom Willerer talks personalization, access.” The software in question, Odysseyware , is featured in a recent series of articles in Slate , chronicling the worst online classes , particularly those used for credit recovery programs.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Via WaPo : “The FCC talks the talk on the digital divide – and then walks in the other direction.” ” The provider in question is Coursera , which has raised some $146.1 ” Via The Atlantic : “The School-Voucher Paradox,” an article about a study on vouchers and school segregation.

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JUNE 10, 2016

He was an instructor in one of several high-profile Coursera failures back in 2013. I’m not sure what this means as the article talks about both “authenticity” (whatever that is) and the gender of instructors on various MOOC platforms. The New York Times on “The Challenges of Closing the Digital Divide.”

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OCTOBER 26, 2018

*Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. “ Coursera ’s 2018 Revenue Estimated to be $140 million,” Class Central estimates. ” Via Pew Research : “ Nearly one-in-five teens can’t always finish their homework because of the digital divide.”

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