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” Via Politico : “Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has increased her financial stake in a ‘neurofeedback’ company that says its technology treats attention deficit disorder and the symptoms of autism. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Lots of MOOC PR appeared in the news this week.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Big HR news about Coursera in the HR section below. Here’s the headline from Inside Higher Ed : “For-Credit MOOC: Best of Both Worlds at MIT ?” ” But if you look closer, it’s not a MOOC; it’s just an online class at MIT.

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” (Did you know he recorded his first mixtape at the Chicago Public Library’s YOUmedia studio ?). ” Reminder: here are the education companies Palantir founder Peter Thiel has invested in. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Inside Higher Ed on online education at Simmons College.

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’” Via Education Week : “ FCC Seeks Comment on Access to WiFi for Schools and Libraries.” Meanwhile, the state has given initial approval for ECOT to become a “dropout school.” Edsurge profiles the latest from Degreed : “This Company Wants to Help You Hire for Skills, Not Credentials.”

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” Via The Economic Times : “Startups in student-lending sector see dropouts, but some score too.” ” I’ll be adding student loan company Quiklo to the ed-tech dead pool. MOOCs are out. The company, which sells subscriptions to boxes full of kids’ activitites, has raised $7.33

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Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “A Conveyor Belt of Dropouts and Debt at For-Profit Colleges ” by Susan Dynarski. ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ MIT Seeks to Expand Role Promoting Startups.” ” Coding Bootcamps (The Once and Future “For-Profit Higher Ed”).