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

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Freedman: I love where you started with the criticism of the MOOCs. I mean, MOOCs aren’t learning platforms, they’re distribution platforms. Course might meet once a week for three hours, might meet once a week for an hour, maybe it meets every other week. So I think you’re focused on the right place.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Bill Gates dishes on his meetings with Donald Trump. OpenClassrooms , a French MOOC provider according to Techcrunch, has raised $60 million from Bpifrance, General Atlantic, Alven Capital, and Citizen Capital. Chegg has acquired WriteLab for $15 million.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “ Andrew Ng , Co-Founder of Coursera , Returns to MOOC Teaching With New AI Course.” ” Via Recode : “ Google CEO Sundar Pichai canceled an all-hands meeting about gender controversy due to employee worries of online harassment.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Gotta keep that MOOC hype alive. “ MOOCs Find a New Audience with On-Campus Students,” Edsurge claims. ” A data breach at Chegg – more details in the data and surveillance section below. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Edsurge wants you to “Meet Two Leaders Trying to Reinvent College.” Chegg has acquired the flashcard app StudyBlue for $20.8 .” Via Edsurge : “Why Purdue Professors Continue to Protest Purdue’s Purchase of a For-Profit U.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Teachers Are Moonlighting As Instagram Influencers To Make Ends Meet,” Buzzfeed reported in 2018. 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. Wedge Tailed Green Pigeon.

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.” Via Buzzfeed : “Republican Proposal Would Make Trump University Lawsuits ‘Almost Impossible’ ” Via The Washington Post : “ Chance the Rapper is meeting with Illinois ’ governor about education funding. More on MOOC and online education research in the research section below.