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Via Techcrunch : “ Holberton gets backing from more industry executives as it looks to scale its software engineering school.” Edsurge profiles Dr. Chuck about his work on MOOCs with Coursera. ( From the Coursera blog : “Building India ’s Workforce for 2020.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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Or the company will have to start charging for the software. 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.)

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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.” Via e-Literate : “Experience Economy: Enterprise software view into persistence and future of LMS market.”

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” More on the Afghan robotics team in the contest section below. ” Via Education Dive : “ Coursera ’s Tom Willerer talks personalization, access.” for Robotics Contest.” ” Adaptive software is not the same as personalized learning , says eSchool News. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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Coursera ’s 2018 Revenue Estimated to be $140 million,” Class Central estimates. Remember: the biases of engineers and managers get baked into the software you use. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via Futurism.com : “Here Are the States Where a Robot Is Most Likely to Steal Your Job.”