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Hack Education Weekly News

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Edsurge profiles Dr. Chuck about his work on MOOCs with Coursera. ( From the Coursera blog : “Building India ’s Workforce for 2020.” ’” – “Dean Dad” Matt Reed on the #RealCollege conference on food insecurity on college campuses. ” Spoiler alert: one-on-one instruction.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, Um, they do.) In 2015, Google had announced it would stop selling the product.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Coursera ’s 2018 Revenue Estimated to be $140 million,” Class Central estimates. ” Via Pew Research : “ Nearly one-in-five teens can’t always finish their homework because of the digital divide.” Indiana University has joined edX. Thanks in advance. Icon credits: The Noun Project