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Hack Education Weekly News

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That series isn’t going to be much of one this year… And frankly, this Friday thing is going to be paused for the duration of Teaching Machines book-writing, starting quite soon. The New York Times notes it’s not just rural students who struggle with broadband access : “Why San Jose Kids Do Homework in Parking Lots.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via Wired : “ Ajit Pai ’s Plan Will Take Broadband Away From Poor People.” Imperial College London will teach a class on artificial intelligence on the Coursera platform. Via Campus Technology : “ McGraw-Hill Education Launches Textbook and E-Book Rental Program.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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“Higher education and library associations called on the Federal Communications Commission Thursday to uphold Obama-era rules requiring broadband providers to treat all traffic on the internet equally,” Inside Higher Ed reports. “Will Personalized Learning Become the New Normal?” ” asks Edsurge.

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Education's Online Futures

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Clayton Christensen and Michael Horn, for example, predicted in their 2008 book Disrupting Class that by 2019 half of all high school classes would be taught via the Internet. Coursera also brought on a new CEO : Jeff Maggioncalda, whose previous job was in the financial planning industry.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” “Republicans try to take cheap phones and broadband away from poor people,” Ars Technica reports. monthly subsidies toward cellular phone service or mobile broadband. ” Codecademy, Edsurge contends, is now a competitor to Coursera and Udacity. Personalized learning is anything you want it to be.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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In Move Towards More Online Degrees, Coursera Introduces Its First Bachelor ’s.” ” “Coursera and other purveyors of massive open online courses supposedly signaled the end of traditional credentials and, as some told it, universities. ” asks Ron Srigley in the Los Angeles Review of Books.