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Hack Education Weekly News

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” The company – funded by Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Pearson, Learn Capital, and others – says it will remain open. The US Department of Education announced it was launching “a pilot to test rigorously the effectiveness of more flexible loan counseling policies on federal student loan borrowers.”

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What I Learned On My ‘Secret Sabbatical’ As a Scholar-in-Residence at a Private Company

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Occasionally I even wrote a blog post about it. While I was an embedded academic with the company, I played amateur anthropologist to learn all I could about corporate practices. What practices of really effective companies, in which creativity and innovation are important, seem to have the biggest impact?

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Hack Education Weekly News

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’s Mumps Outbreak Tells Us About Our Vaccine Policies.” More on for-profit higher ed policies in the for-profit higher ed section below. Via Edsurge : “As LinkedIn ’s Video Library Grows, Company Says It Has No Plans to Compete With Colleges.” That’s despite privacy concerns about the company.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” (Related: “Theranos investor Tim Draper blames the company’s downfall on an investigative journalist,” Business Insider reports.). ” ECOT is the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow, an online charter school company. Meanwhile on Campus… Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ U.

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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. And “free” doesn’t last. 3D Printing. Wedge Tailed Green Pigeon.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via The 74 : “ Trump Towers Over Education: How His Candidacy Is Already Affecting Federal Policy.” From the edX blog : “How to be a Better Learner: Determine Your Learning Style.” Conference of Mayors Resolves to Support Digital Badging ,” says Edsurge. ” “U.S.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Salesforce has filed a patent for “ Digital badging for facilitating virtual recognition of an achievement.” “This Machine Learning-Powered Software Teaches Kids To Be Better Writers,” Fast Company claims. ” From the Udacity blog : “ Your Exclusive Guide To Pursuing A Robotics Career.”