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Hack Education Weekly News

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Coursera highlights its mentors – its volunteer mentors – on its blog. Google had a big press event this week too, unveiling shiny stuff to a cheering crowd of stenographers. VR headsets (well, it’s really just a mask that holds your Google phone up to your face). Raise $146.1 A Wi-Fi system.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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His wife is also the founder of the OER organization CK12. Via the Coursera blog : “Announcing the Global MBA from Macquarie University.” Via Adweek : “ Google Is Collecting Your Data – Even When Your Phone Isn’t in Use.” Some of Khosla’s education investments are listed here.

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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. CNN tries to explain “Why Google , Apple and Microsoft are battling for education.” “ OER-Enabled Pedagogy ” by Lumen Learning’s David Wiley. Not sure why this is called a MOOC.

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The US Department of Education released its “ #GoOpenDistrict Launch Packet ,” encouraging schools to use OER. ” That’s the headline describing a conversation between Recode and Coursera ’s Daphne Koller. .” Me, I cannot stop looking at that hand-clapping Vine. ” Rebrand. .”

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” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Big HR news about Coursera in the HR section below. Coursera has a new CEO: Jeff Maggioncalda. “ Google Drive will soon back up your entire computer,” says The Verge. ” “​ OER Researchers Don’t Disaggregate Data on Diverse Students.

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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. Google Reader. Google shut down Reader in 2013 , citing declining use of RSS. This “reverse engineering,” the publishers claimed, violated copyright.

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Via Recode : “ Coursera has ousted several senior executives along with many rank-and-file staffers.” Via Vice : “ Google Docs Is Randomly Flagging Files for Violating Its Terms of Service.” The company is co-founded by Nick Ducoff, formerly of the OER textbook startup Boundless. So I dunno.