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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.” ” Via Campus Technology : “ Southern New Hampshire U to launch Competency-Based Master’s in Online Ed.” ” (No. .”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. 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.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. The organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology. Um, they do.)

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” Via Education Dive : “ Coursera ’s Tom Willerer talks personalization, access.” Via MIT Technology Review : “Another Price Slash Suggests the Oculus Rift Is Dead in the Water.” Via The New York Times : “To Close Digital Divide, Microsoft to Harness Unused Television Channels.”

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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 Bridget Foster has been named the head of the SIIA’s ed-tech association, the Education Technology Industry Network.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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He was an instructor in one of several high-profile Coursera failures back in 2013. ” From the press release : “ Learning Machine and MIT Media Lab Release Blockchain Technology for Educational Credentials.” The New York Times on “The Challenges of Closing the Digital Divide.” Oh VR promises.

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What Gives the Edtech Industry Hope — and Pause — Under a Biden Administration

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Business executives and funders of educational technologies also welcomed the signal that education will be a major focus for the incoming administration. “It Working with teacher-training programs at colleges to update accreditation standards and incorporate technology skills, she notes, would be a strong start.

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