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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. Kno was headed by Osman Rashid, the co-founder of the textbook rental company Chegg, and the tablet was aimed at the college market. MOOCs are, no surprise, their own entry on this long list of awfulness.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). MOOC news is now much more often “job training” news, so there’s more on MOOCs in that section below. From the Edmodo blog : “ AI , Algorithms and What Should We All Be Thinking About?” Maybe Not on Its Tutoring Platform.”