Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. Rafter, a course material provider that was an early advocate of and provider for this bundling of textbooks and tuition, closed its doors in 2016 , having raised more than $86 million.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2017

Stephen Downes works in the Learning and Performance Support Systems program at the National Research Council, a multi-year effort to develop personal learning technology and learning analytics. This collaboration allows candidates to view theory in practice and makes learning on campus more authentic.

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Hack Education

MAY 27, 2016

For those keeping score at home, here are Peter Thiel’s ed-tech investments (in addition to his “I’ll pay you to drop out of college” fellowship program, of course): Clever, Lore, Thinkful, Declara, and SoFi. ” (That giant: Pearson , of course.). Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”).

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Then there was the infamous anti-diversity memo distributed by Google engineer James Damore and leaked to the press this summer that charged that efforts the company (and the industry more broadly) had taken to address diversity were misguided as women are biologically ill-suited to computer science – which is, of course, totally b t.

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Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

” Via Chalkbeat : “They rejected multi-state Common Core exams. “Imagine Discovering That Your Teaching Assistant Really Is a Robot ,” says The Wall Street Journal in a story about “Jill Watson” (of course it’s a female name), an automated teaching assistant at Georgia Tech.

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