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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via the Coursera blog : “New mobile features: Transcripts, notes, and reminders.” ” Pearson and Chegg are partnering for textbook rentals. ” “The Current State of Educational Blogging 2016,” according to Edublogs’ Sue Waters. .”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via the Coursera blog : “What’s Next in Employee Learning: Virtual Reality.” Jen Howard on “What Happened to Google’s Effort to Scan Millions of University Library Books ?” Wired argues that “ Jeff Bezos Should Put His Billions Into Libraries.” The Business of Job Training.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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And like so many products on this list, 3D printing was hailed as a revolution in education, and schools were encouraged to reorient libraries and shop classes towards “maker spaces” which would give students opportunities to print their plastic designs. The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That).

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” (Did you know he recorded his first mixtape at the Chicago Public Library’s YOUmedia studio ?). ” GitHub touts automated testing on its blog. ” Via the press release : “ Cengage , McGraw-Hill Education , and Pearson have joined forces with Ingram and Chegg , Inc.