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

Wired Campus

Freedman: I love where you started with the criticism of the MOOCs. I mean, MOOCs aren’t learning platforms, they’re distribution platforms. They’re guided in that process with a coach who’s there to keep them accountable, connect them to resources and mentors as they go through that process so they’re aware of their own development.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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The model is designed to equitably allocate local, state and federal resources based on student needs.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Chegg has acquired the flashcard app StudyBlue for $20.8 A video went viral; Pruitt has since resigned. .” other drivers? cyclists?) million total.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

They recorded school resource officers. Kno was headed by Osman Rashid, the co-founder of the textbook rental company Chegg, and the tablet was aimed at the college market. In 2013, on the heels of “the Year of the MOOC,” Barber released a report titled “An Avalanche is Coming,” calling for the “unbundling” of higher education.

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Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news down in the “labor and management” section below. The folks at Getting Smart promote CS and SEL resources on Facebook for Education. Indiana University has joined edX. Meanwhile on Campus… “Forget Lazy Rivers.