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Triumphs and Troubles in Online Learning Abroad

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With the lowest internet access in the world in sub-Saharan Africa, average broadband penetration is at a mere 2 percent, with n early 90 percent of students without computers at home South Africa, the continent’s bright spot, is the strongest early adopter of digital education with 63 percent of the population online.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

From the FCC : “Fact Sheet on Broadband Consumer Privacy Proposal.” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “Aftermath of the MOOC wars: Can commercial vendors support creative higher education ? ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “Smartphone Explodes in Rowan College Classroom.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

.” “Republicans try to take cheap phones and broadband away from poor people,” Ars Technica reports. monthly subsidies toward cellular phone service or mobile broadband. “ Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? If the bill passes, low-income Americans would no longer be able to use $9.25