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Hack Education Weekly News

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No disclosure in this or its Class Central article that it shares investors with these MOOC companies.). ’” – “Dean Dad” Matt Reed on the #RealCollege conference on food insecurity on college campuses. . “Reviving the MOOC ” – an op-ed by Stephen Downes. ” (No. .”

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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. Um, they do.)

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Hack Education Weekly News

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This Edsurge article – “ OER is Growing at Religious Colleges , But Raises Unique Challenges” – strikes me as a little weird, considering the long relationship between open education (the conference, at the very least) and former BYU professor David Wiley. ” Accreditations and Certifications and Competencies. .”