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

Wired Campus

We do hybrid classrooms. We do flipped classrooms. So what happens is, a student goes to class, and within the first few weeks they have to make a very fast judgment call on whether or not to buy a used book for their course or to try to hold off and not buy anything at all. We do online courses, competency-based stuff.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

The Flipped Classroom". It was probably Sal Khan’s 2011 TED Talk “Let’s Use Video to Reinvent Education” and the flurry of media he received over the course of the following year or so that introduced the idea of the “flipped classroom” to most people. The key word in that headline isn’t “digital”; it’s “force.”

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