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MARCH 30, 2017

So instead of a zeppelin, we got to ride in one of Google’s self-driving cars, which was of course the project that Thrun had been working on when he gave his famous TED Talk in 2011 – and that, in turn, was where he heard Salman Khan give his famous TED Talk. Google versus Uber. Efficiency.

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DECEMBER 16, 2016

Pokémon Go, a free augmented reality game developed by Niantic (a company spun out of Google in 2015), became the most popular mobile game in US history this year. I’ll look more closely at discrimination by design – in software and in algorithms – in the final article in this series.) “ Seen ” cheating.).

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OCTOBER 14, 2016

” That for-profit is Laureate Education , the largest chain of for-profit schools in the world and an investor in Coursera. ” Via NSBA’s Legal Clips blog : “ Satanic Temple withdraws request to start after school club at Washington state elementary school.” Data, Privacy, and Surveillance. ” Maybe.

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JULY 8, 2016

“ ‘Top universities to offer full degrees online in five years’ ” says the BBC, citing a prediction made by Coursera ’s Daphne Koller. Via Fortune : “ Android Co-Founder To Lead Google ’s New Education Project.” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Like, 99%.

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MARCH 24, 2017

Via The USA Today : “Kids on winning robotics team told, ‘Go back to Mexico’ ” The kids were from Pleasant Run Elementary School in Indianapolis. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ Coursera Removes Biometric Identity Verification Using Keystroke Matching,” Class Central reports.

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JUNE 16, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Big HR news about Coursera in the HR section below. Via The New York Times : “ New York to Shorten Standardized Tests in Elementary and Middle Schools.” Coursera has a new CEO: Jeff Maggioncalda. ” From the HR Department. Don’t.

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DECEMBER 4, 2016

Daphne Koller left Coursera this year. The pressure to move towards digital assessments has fueled schools’ investments in hardware and software more than any other argument about the importance of ed-tech. The learning management system is a piece of “enterprise” software after all. The Procurement Problem.

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