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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via the Coursera blog : “New mobile features: Transcripts, notes, and reminders.” ” Pearson and Chegg are partnering for textbook rentals. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Udacity has updated its online "classroom."

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

The Wall Street Journal predicts “The End of Typing: The Next Billion Mobile Users Will Rely on Video and Voice.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. I missed this news back in February: Chegg acquired RefMe. .” “‘Schoolifying’ Minecraft Without Ruining It” by NPR’s Anya Kamenetz.

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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. Although YouTube was founded in 2005, it has seen an explosion in growth this decade, in part from the ubiquity of mobile devices: anytime, anywhere television-watching. But the “spying” has continued.

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