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Hack Education Weekly News

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There’s more on the GED, that very old competency-based learning exam, in the research section below. ” Contests and Conferences. ” The conference in question: The Future Investment Initiative. ” Sponsored content on Edsurge this week paid for by Macmillan Learning includes this and this.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning. In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. There was a regularly updated Facebook page, a Twitter account, as well as a LinkedIn profile for its supposed president.

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