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Hack Education Weekly News

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“ Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : ”Why Twitter Is Calling Abigail Fisher ’ Becky With the Bad Grades ’: A Brief Explainer.” From the Coursera blog : “Coursera pilots a new course format.” In other Coursera news : “ Atlassian sponsors computer science learners on Coursera.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” “ Google Is Being Investigated By Missouri Attorney General,” Fortune reports. Oh and look at this: “Google Critic [Peter] Thiel Gave Money to Official Probing Search Giant,” Bloomberg reports. Coursera announces on its blog that it’s expanding to Brazil. The Business of Job Training.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Coursera has a new partner , the insurance company AXA , which will offer some 300 Coursera classes to its employees. Via the Google blog : “ Google introduces Hire , a new recruiting app that integrates with G Suite.” ” Google boasts about “ teaching skills ” using VR.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” (Probably worth checking out Sara Goldrick-Rab’s comments on Twitter about this one.). ” 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. Athletics director, head coach ordered to each pay $100,000.”

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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. There was a regularly updated Facebook page, a Twitter account, as well as a LinkedIn profile for its supposed president. Google Reader.

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STEMxCon - Today Is the Final Deadline for Proposals; Great Keynotes + Sessions; Need Volunteers!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Our Twitter hashtag is #stemx13, and we have some resources for publicizing at [link]. MP3 and MP4 versions will be available as well as the full Blackboard Collaborate recordings, although they take some days to process. Spreading the word : this a free event, so be sure to tell others! See you online!

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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.” There’s a lot to think about here, as Natasha Singer rightly pointed out on Twitter , as this might related to Big Ed-Tech. Because “open.”).