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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via the Coursera blog : “Coming soon to all courses: Flexible session-based schedules.” “* Schoology *: The strongest LMS you’ve never seen” – according to Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill at least. ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Oh look.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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According to excerpts of speeches published by Wikileaks – stolen data – Clinton called the Common Core a “political failure” in a speech she gave to Knewton. ” That for-profit is Laureate Education , the largest chain of for-profit schools in the world and an investor in Coursera.

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Education Technology and Data Insecurity

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Instructure, for example, undertook its fifth annual security audit this year to identify possible vulnerabilities in its LMS Canvas. ” University of Zurich professor Paul-Olivier Dehaye continued his case against Coursera, questioning the authority that the MOOC startup had to transfer European student data.

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The Business of Education Technology

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Daphne Koller left Coursera this year. In part, their struggles are a result of controversies surrounding the Common Core State Standards, which were supposed to streamline and procurement the development of curriculum and assessment. Sebastian Thrun stepped down as Udacity’s CEO. Everything’s a business opportunity.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Testing, Testing… “ Nevada officials announced Tuesday that a common-core assessment consortium will credit the state $1.8 Via Education Next : “The Politics of the Common Core Assessments.” ” asks The Chronicle of Higher Education in an interview with Coursera’s Daphne Koller.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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The email, he said, detailed a “Priority 1 Alert” that had been issued by Pearson and the New Jersey Department of Education, regarding a student who had tweeted about a test question on the PARCC — a standardized test based on the Common Core State Standards. Or rather, their interest wasn’t in the features of the new LMS.

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According to the conservative news site The Daily Caller , “Bailing On Common Core Tests Is Costing States Millions.” He was an instructor in one of several high-profile Coursera failures back in 2013. PowerSchool has acquired the LMS Haiku Learning for an undisclosed sum. Remember Richard McKenzie?