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

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Cecilia Martins - Unit Chief, Educational Portal of the Americas, Organization of American States - "OAS work in supporting STEMx education in Latin America and the Caribbean" Tim Bell - Professor, University of Canterbury - "Introducing Computer Science in NZ High Schools" Elaine Manton - Loreto Grammar School - "The Real Importance of STEM in the (..)

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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.” Student engagement can now be measured in real time. This is Reich’s Law : students who do stuff do better than student’s who don’t do stuff.

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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. Coursera has raised over $310 million. This “reverse engineering,” the publishers claimed, violated copyright. Investors continued to fund MOOCs nonetheless.

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