Hack Education

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill analyzes a recent interview with Coursera ’s CEO and argues the MOOC provider is “betting on OPM market and shift to low-cost masters degrees.” Google has acquired lesson-provider Workbench. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”).

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

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, Google Reader. Um, they do.) The TED Talk.

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Hack Education

JULY 14, 2017

” Via Education Dive : “ Coursera ’s Tom Willerer talks personalization, access.” ” Google profiles Niji Collins , a winner in the latest Google Code-In contest. Via The New York Times : “To Close Digital Divide, Microsoft to Harness Unused Television Channels.”

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Via WaPo : “The FCC talks the talk on the digital divide – and then walks in the other direction.” ” The provider in question is Coursera , which has raised some $146.1 ” Via Geekwire : “ Google quietly donates $10M to University of Washington in another major computer science gift.”

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Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

He was an instructor in one of several high-profile Coursera failures back in 2013. The New York Times on “The Challenges of Closing the Digital Divide.” According to the conservative news site The Daily Caller , “Bailing On Common Core Tests Is Costing States Millions.” Remember Richard McKenzie?

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 26, 2018

“ Coursera ’s 2018 Revenue Estimated to be $140 million,” Class Central estimates. Via The New York Times : “How Google Protected Andy Rubin , the ‘Father of Android ’ ” “Google could have fired Mr. Rubin and paid him little to nothing on the way out. Is It the Best Role Model?

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