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Move over 401(k)s — this new perk is helping millennials pay off college loans

The Hechinger Report

Its clients include Fidelity and Chegg. Some critics say that offering student-loan repayment as an employee benefit deflects attention from the real problem with these loans: high interest rates. Now she works as an e-marketing assistant at Powertex, a company that produces apparel and merchandise.

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Comparing spaced repetition algorithms

Brainscape

For example: online courses and e-textbook providers that are more of an instructional curriculum, but that have built spaced repetition into things like multiple-choice quizzes at the end of chapters, where incorrect answers are more likely to come up frequently until the user answers correctly.

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

Wired Campus

And this has kept kind of the digital adoption rate in higher education very low — we’re at about an 8-percent e-textbook adoption rate because the prices of the used market directly undercut the available digital prices and certainly the new textbook prices. So this 8-percent e-textbook adoption rate is very alarming.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

.” Via The New York Times : “ New Mexico Outlaws School ‘Lunch Shaming’ ” Via Buzzfeed : “ California Shows The Rest Of The Country How To Boost Kindergarten Vaccination Rates.” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “How Open E-Credentials Will Transform Higher Education.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Education Week : “ E-Rate , Other Universal-Service Funds to Be Transferred to U.S. I missed this news back in February: Chegg acquired RefMe. .” Via Education Week : “ ESSA Point Man Jason Botel to Leave Education Dept. Post, Sources Say.” ” (State and Local) Education Politics.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

“To Save Students Money, Colleges May Force a Switch to E-Textbooks,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reported in 2010. 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).”

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