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Stale Words and Hackneyed Ideas That Make Edtech Investors Cringe

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Chegg (or Amazon for that matter)? MOOCs or General Assembly for country X. It’s not surprising that a go-to-market strategy that avoids the pain of selling directly to a school administration by hooking the teachers and effectively deputizing them to drag the principal along appeals to a lot of founders. Yet another LMS.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). 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. Venture Capital and the Business of Education.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via Inside Higher Ed : “2-Pronged Strategy Against ‘ Gainful ’ Rule.” ” 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 Reuters : “Some U.S.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan called badges a “game-changing strategy.”. 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. Reader, they were not.

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Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Inside Higher Ed on online education at Simmons College. More on MOOC and online education research in the research section below. Via Edsurge : “What Colleges Should Know About A Growing ‘ Talent Strategy ’ Push By Companies.” ” asks NPR.

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“ Betsy DeVos ’s For-Profit Strategy Is Risky – for Betsy DeVos,” says an op-ed in The Chronicle of Higher Education. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news in the HR section below.