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Top EdSurge Higher Education Stories of 2021

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Additionally, stories about companies and nonprofits trying to innovate within higher ed attracted a lot of attention, as did several articles about learning science and new teaching practices. Coursera Is Now a Public Company. A Popular Study Found That Taking Notes By Hand Is Better Than By Laptop. By Robert Talbert.

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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. Ban Laptops" Op-Eds. And “free” doesn’t last. WTF is Unizin ?!

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Reminder: here are the education companies Palantir founder Peter Thiel has invested in. Via Edsurge : “What Colleges Should Know About A Growing ‘ Talent Strategy ’ Push By Companies.” Amazon Web Services suffered a major outage this week, knocking many education companies who use AWS offline.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” (I’m including this here because all of these entities – Kushner’s family, the companies he received loans from – have education investments too.). ” (Learndirect is a job training company that has a major contract with the UK government.). Via Edsurge : “ Cheating on Chegg ?