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The 2018 EdSurde Annual Special: Surgecoin, EduWands and Other News Not Fit for Print

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Chegg appears to have borrowed a page from Duolingo’s previous shenanigan for the Osmosis Pillow , which takes “memory foam” to another level. Students are virtually beamed onboard a cruise via a robot, which has a screen and camera to give students at home a sense that they are roaming around the ship.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Phil Hill on an “LMS Revival: D2L picking up new customers and showing they can listen.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. I missed this news back in February: Chegg acquired RefMe. . “ Peter Thiel Has Been Hedging His Bet On Donald Trump,” Buzzfeed claims. Privacy, Surveillance, and Information Security.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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. “Preparing for the Post-LMS World ” by Jonathan Rees. ” A data breach at Chegg – more details in the data and surveillance section below. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. “Culturally Sensitive Robots Are Here to Care for the Elderly ,” Futurism.com claims.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Kno was headed by Osman Rashid, the co-founder of the textbook rental company Chegg, and the tablet was aimed at the college market. Or rather, their interest wasn’t in the features of the new LMS. Robot essay graders — they grade just the same as human ones. The LMS isn’t the only platform in education to be sure.

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