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Facebook Seems to Be Adding Video-Course Features. For Edtech, That Raises Old Fears.

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A consultant recently noticed a company announcement about the features in the U.K. The service is an extension of the company’s paid live events feature. Users who follow Meta’s monetization policies can offer paid live events, allowing them to offer things like cooking classes or fundraisers.

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The Still-Evolving Future of University Credentials

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Education policy leaders at the federal level and beyond were exploring the growing role of competency-based education and non-traditional providers —and calls were growing for stronger connections between universities and the world of employment. To start off, it’s worth thinking back to 2016.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

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Tom Webster, the VP of strategy at the market research firm Edison Research, argued that the report should be viewed as “an extremely effective piece of content marketing,” pointing to the number of slides that cite data about or by a portfolio company of Meeker’s employer, the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Smith Caulfield.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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’s Mumps Outbreak Tells Us About Our Vaccine Policies.” More on for-profit higher ed policies in the for-profit higher ed section below. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” If you can’t create revenue, raise venture capital. That’s despite privacy concerns about the company.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Inside Higher Ed has a story on Pence’s higher ed policies. Here’s an old article from Chalkbeat on Pence’s K–12 policies. ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). “ Are MOOCs Forever ?” .” Presidential Campaign Politics. Education in the Courts.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via The 74 : “ Trump Towers Over Education: How His Candidacy Is Already Affecting Federal Policy.” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Elsewhere in MOOC research… From Campus Technology : “Grouping MOOC Students by Communication Mode Doesn’t Help Completion.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” And by “take on,” that means “investigating and suing universities over affirmative action admissions policies deemed to discriminate against white applicants.” ” More on Trump’s proposed immigration policies in the immigration section below. The Business of Student Loans.