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Hack Education Weekly News

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Edsurge and Getting Smart promote venture capitalist Ryan Craig ’s new book A New U and the idea that “ faster + cheaper alternatives will replace most of higher ed.” ” “ Khan Academy introduces something big for little learners,” says the Khan Academy blog. Sounds like fun.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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The story examined a proposed practice: “Colleges require students to pay a course-materials fee, which would be used to buy e-books for all of them (whatever text the professor recommends, just as in the old model).” And digital bits have replaced the need to cut down trees to make paper and waste ink to create those books.”

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