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Hack Education Weekly News

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Just a few weeks after Daphne Koller ’s announcement she was leaving the MOOC startup she co-founded, Coursera unveiled “ Coursera for Business ” this week, marking its pivot from “democratizing higher ed” to “ training corporate employees.” Robots probably won’t take your jobs.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “ Andrew Ng , Co-Founder of Coursera , Returns to MOOC Teaching With New AI Course.” Via the Coursera blog : “What’s Next in Employee Learning: Virtual Reality.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” More via Wired.

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Via The Daily Beast : “ Palmer Luckey : The Facebook Near-Billionaire Secretly Funding Trump’s Meme Machine.” Well, one thing’s for certain: between this and Peter Thiel on its board, Facebook is well-positioned for a Trump presidency. ” Time to buy more TV ads, Khan Academy and Coursera!

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” Via Infodocket : “ Louisiana State University is Suing Elsevier For Breach of Contract.” I missed this news earlier in April, via Class Central : financial aid applications for Coursera take at least 15 days. Via Gizmodo : “ Facebook Will Add 3,000 More People to Watch Murders and Suicides.”

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Imperial College London will teach a class on artificial intelligence on the Coursera platform. blog : “ Elsevier Collaborates with Hypothesis to Integrate Open Annotation.” ” Via Politico : “ Facebook ’s next project: American inequality.” Faces New Setback in Battle Over GI Bill Funds.”

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Via The New York Times : “Turn Off Messenger Kids , Health Experts Plead to Facebook.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Elsevier on “The Augmented Researcher: What Does 2018 Hold for AI in Publishing ?” .” The company, which has raised some $107.4 So time for some friendly PR, I guess.