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How colleges are adapting to the future of education

Linways Technologies

So, education should also focus on developing a learning culture in its students. Colleges have now started offering online programs as supplements and alternative to elective courses. These programs are of high demands as there are more people shifting careers and need skills that they haven’t learned in college.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. Rafter, a course material provider that was an early advocate of and provider for this bundling of textbooks and tuition, closed its doors in 2016 , having raised more than $86 million.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via EdSource : “ Cal State drops intermediate algebra as requirement to take some college-level math courses.” ” Codecademy, Edsurge contends, is now a competitor to Coursera and Udacity. ” Not sure why these are the four, but there you go: Udemy , Lynda , Coursera , and Skillshare.