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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via the Coursera blog : “New mobile features: Transcripts, notes, and reminders.” " It’s lovely to see the big innovation from the MOOC startups in 2017 involves the learning management system. The adaptive learning company has raised $16 million total.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). MOOC hype deja vu.). com : “2 students, teacher injured in shooting at Townville Elementary [in South Carolina ]; teen in custody.” The company, which makes games to teach preschoolers to code, has raised $5.75 ” Via WYFF4.com

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). “A TurboTax for student loan applications” according to Techcrunch, the company has raised $15.5 ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “New Data on Enrollments , Employees, Libraries.” Amazon Web Services ( AWS ) has joined edX. million total.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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.” This a **e is trying to get the parents whose children died at Sandy Hook Elementary to pay for his court costs. ” Sandler is also the founder of the ed-tech company Nibletz. ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). The company: RIB Software SE. ” JFC. More via AJC.

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Education Technology and Data Insecurity

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Pokémon Go, a free augmented reality game developed by Niantic (a company spun out of Google in 2015), became the most popular mobile game in US history this year. ” “ How Asian test-prep companies swiftly exposed the brand-new SAT.” This is part eight of my annual review of the year in ed-tech.

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” The charges include receiving money from the ed-tech company Edgenuity. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Libraries remain relevant, and The New York Times is on it. .” There’s more on legal cases in the sports section below. A trend , perhaps, to watch.). Go, School Sports Team! .

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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.