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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via Techcrunch : “ Holberton gets backing from more industry executives as it looks to scale its software engineering school.” Edsurge profiles Dr. Chuck about his work on MOOCs with Coursera. ( No disclosure in this or its Class Central article that it shares investors with these MOOC companies.). ” (No. .”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Or it will raise a bunch of venture capital to support its “free” offering for a while, and then the company will get acquired and the product will go away. And “free” doesn’t last. Um, they do.)

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Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill analyzes a recent interview with Coursera ’s CEO and argues the MOOC provider is “betting on OPM market and shift to low-cost masters degrees.” Rather Harvard has outsourced instruction to the for-profit company Trilogy Education. ” But it’s not Harvard.

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Also via Edsurge : “How Boundaries Between Colleges and Companies Will Continue to Blur.” ” Via Education Dive : “ Coursera ’s Tom Willerer talks personalization, access.” “Mind-reading robo tutor in the sky” company Knewton has a new CEO , Brian Kibby , formerly with Pearson. .”

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the Virginia company at the heart of the operation.” Here’s the EdWeek headline: “ Company Exec. for Ed-Tech Company Testifies in Ala. ” Gee, good thing no one else in ed-tech is in the business of selling these sorts of connections between companies and politicians and schools! ” Ugh.

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What Gives the Edtech Industry Hope — and Pause — Under a Biden Administration

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Both groups, which campaigned extensively for Biden, have been outspoken critics of the role of private companies, for-profit interests and charter schools. Many edtech companies have been able to get started by appealing to this innovative segment of the market, and later expand to district schools.

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Coursera ’s 2018 Revenue Estimated to be $140 million,” Class Central estimates. Doesn’t look like the company has anyone to take his place yet. It’s a rot at the very core of the company’s leadership team. Remember: the biases of engineers and managers get baked into the software you use.