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As Facebook Changes Name to Meta, Company Wants to Pull Education Into Its 'Metaverse'

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And Facebook (er, I guess now Meta) announced that it would partner with Coursera and edX to help push Meta’s curriculum in augmented and virtual reality, which it calls the Spark AR Curriculum. Imagine learning how the forum was built by actually watching the forum get built right in front of you.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ Coursera Removes Biometric Identity Verification Using Keystroke Matching,” Class Central reports. An update on Coursera co-founder Andrew Ng’s employment status in the HR section below. ” Ng is, of course, the co-founder of the MOOC startup Coursera.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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But when he and the head of the UN Kofi Annan went to demo the device, its signature feature — a hand crank that would power it — fell off. Coursera has raised over $310 million. There was slightly more buzz when Negroponte pitched the idea again at the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis in 2005.

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” Via The Financial Times : “ Coursera chief on the future of online learning and the Trump era.” Via Quartz : “So long, banana-condom demos: Sex and drug education could soon come from chatbots.” ” New Nanodegrees from Udacity : Digital Marketing and Robotics.