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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

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This is part eleven of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” In May, venture capitalist and former securities analyst Mary Meeker released her annual “Internet Trends” report. Much of what Meeker says in this year’s report about education is placed under her category “gaming.”

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Via The Verge : “US denies visas to Afghanistan ’s all-girl robotics team.” The Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow is appealing a lower court’s ruling that it must repay $60 million to the state of Ohio as it cannot document students “attended” its online charter school. Immigration and Education.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Testing, Testing… “Big changes ahead for how California assesses school performance,” KPCC reports. ” The for-profit: Laureate Education (which once began as the tutoring chain Sylvan Learning and is now an investor in Coursera, I always like to point out). This is a great headline. I love education research.

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Driverless Ed-Tech: The History of the Future of Automation in Education

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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. “Robots are coming for your job.” “Robots are coming for your job.” Robots don’t apply for jobs. Cheaper how?

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“The 72 OSERS Documents Rescinded by Betsy deVos ” – by Liz Ditz. 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. ” Research, “Research,” and Reports.

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” Via The LA Times : “Trump is ending Michelle Obama’s ‘ Let Girls Learn ’ initiative, CNN reports.” I missed this news earlier in April, via Class Central : financial aid applications for Coursera take at least 15 days. The school in question: Bethune-Cookman University.

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“ Conservative High Schoolers Want to ‘Own the Libs’,” The Atlantic’s Adam Harris reports from the Turning Point USA ’s conference. Via Edsurge : “ Coursera ’s First Ivy League Degree: An Online Master’s From the University of Pennsylvania.” Go, School Sports Team!