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Coursera’s Rick Levin On the Evolution of MOOCs and Microcredentials

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The colleges create course videos and assignments that are offered on the company’s platform for free—and students can pay for a certificate showing completion. RIck Levin: The advantage that we bring as a for-profit company is energy and direction and access to a labor force that's highly talented. How’s that going?

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10 Experts’ Predictions for Education and Technology in 2016

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We are seeing far more interest in concepts such as the flipped classroom , which are giving students the capacity to learn outside of the class so that class time is used for higher level skills work, where the new knowledge is applied. Russell Stannard (Educational Technologist, UK). Maria Mendez (Educator, Chile).

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5 Ed-Tech Ideas Face The Chronicle’s Version of ‘Shark Tank’

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In the TV series Shark Tank, entrepreneurs with budding companies pitch their ideas to a panel of investors who ask probing questions and then decide whether to back the proposals. Freund: When I sold my previous company, I had some time at my hands for the first time really in my life. Each spoke from a different perspective — Ms.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Or it will raise a bunch of venture capital to support its “free” offering for a while, and then the company will get acquired and the product will go away. The Flipped Classroom". And “free” doesn’t last.

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