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Hack Education Weekly News

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I missed this news earlier in April, via Class Central : financial aid applications for Coursera take at least 15 days. ” Via Business Insider : “ Surveillance videos show police officer allegedly abusing high school students.” Via CNBC : “This Chinese-Israeli start-up wants to change the way kids learn to code.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. He didn’t invent the idea of video-taping instruction to watch at home and doing “homework” in the classroom instead; but history don’t matter in Silicon Valley.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Coursera has a new partner , the insurance company AXA , which will offer some 300 Coursera classes to its employees. His wife is the co-founder of OER organization CK–12.). ” Campus Technology rewrites the press release that Examity will be used for identify verification and proctoring in edX classes.