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AUGUST 4, 2017

Via the Indianapolis Business Journal : “Legal skirmishes break out over ITT documents, data.” ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “As In-Person Bootcamps Falter, Codecademy Introduces Paid Online Options.” Personalized learning is anything you want it to be.

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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.” ” Via The New York Times : “ Facebook Used People’s Data to Favor Certain Partners and Punish Rivals, Documents Show.”

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DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. Whittle went on to have a string of business failures in the 1990s — well-documented in Samuel Abrams’s book The Commercial Mindset — most notably the for-profit flop Edison Schools.

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MARCH 31, 2017

billion cut to the Education Department’s budget for next year, the President Donald Trump is now calling on Congress to slash nearly $3 billion in education funding for the remaining five months of this fiscal year, according to a document obtained by POLITICO.” “Will Personalized Learning Become the New Normal?”

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JULY 15, 2016

” asks The Chronicle of Higher Education in an interview with Coursera’s Daphne Koller. Via Newsworks : “New court documents reveal that Penn State football coach Joe Paterno knew about allegations of sex abuse against assistant coach Jerry Sandusky in 1976 and did nothing about it.” “ Are MOOCs Forever ?”

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NOVEMBER 4, 2016

“ Coursera ’s new monthly subscriptions could monetize procrastination,” says Techcrunch. ” Via Education Week : “Tracing Personalized Learning Research Back to the 1970s.” Testing, Testing… Via EdSource : “Testing company fined in California for second year.”

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NOVEMBER 10, 2017

” For those keeping track of how ed-tech is intertwined in all this, here’s a list of Yuri Milner ’s education investments : 17zuoye, Remind, Coursera, Clever, Codecademy, ClassDojo, and General Assembly. How Expeditionary Deeper Learning Engages Students Through Inquiry, Discovery & Creativity.”

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MAY 5, 2017

Not ed-tech per se (unless you recognize that “personalized learning” is greyballing), but according to The New York Times , “ Uber Faces Federal Inquiry Over Use of Greyball Tool to Evade Authorities.” Via The Independent : “ Facebook research targeted insecure youth, leaked documents show.”

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DECEMBER 16, 2016

ESSA gives more autonomy and flexibility to states than they had under NCLB through competency-based assessments, which could drive the development of personalized learning technologies. Picture now the children themselves wearing Fitbit-like devices that track everything from their heart rates to their time between meals.

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MARCH 30, 2017

Documents recently obtained by the tech publication Recode revealed that Uber’s autonomous vehicles drove, on average, less than a mile without requiring human intervention. Instead, they’d see a special version of Uber – “personalized” – that misinformed them that there were no cars in the vicinity.

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