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How Voice-Enabled Technology is Changing the Contours of Higher Education

Edsurge

We’ve been really excited about collaborating with edtech developers—we now have skills available to customers from Kickboard, ParentSquare, Coursera, Blackboard and Canvas. Higher education institutions, edtechs and learning companies are using Alexa to enhance experiences for students.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Headline changed from “ Coursera ’s Update Will Eliminate Hundreds of Courses” to “Coursera’s Update Will Migrate Hundreds of Courses to a New Platform.” ” Coursera, initially only emailing former students about their old course work, decided finally to blog about its platform change. .”

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The Business of Education Technology

Hack Education

Daphne Koller left Coursera this year. Jen Medbery stepped down as CEO of Kickboard. You might read the signals of the health of ed-tech startups in the departure of their founders – both from leadership positions and from their companies altogether. Sebastian Thrun stepped down as Udacity’s CEO.