Hack Education

MARCH 17, 2017

As CNN reporter Andrew Kaczynski noted on Twitter Tuesday, Eck, who is now a special assistant to Secretary DeVos, tweeted last November that Hamill should ‘stick to playing Han Solo’s short little b—-’ after Hamill tweeted criticism of the Trump administration.” ” An Education Dept. Are MOOCs webinars?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

It is the instructional designer and tenured professor’s signal — “to the barricades!” — and everyone snipes at the other side from the Twitter trenches for a week, until there’s an unspoken truce that lasts until the next “ban laptops” op-ed gets published. A “ban laptops” op-ed may be the greatest piece of ed-tech clickbait ever devised.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

.” Via The New York Times : “ Kremlin Cash Behind Billionaire’s Twitter and Facebook Investments.” ” Via The Guardian : “ Russia funded Facebook and Twitter investments through Kushner associate.” How Expeditionary Deeper Learning Engages Students Through Inquiry, Discovery & Creativity.”

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

” More on the survey from The Chronicle of Higher Education. Coursera co-founder “ Andrew Ng officially launches his $175M AI Fund,” says Techcrunch. Anderson on “What Kids Are Really Learning About Slavery.” Elsevier on “The Augmented Researcher: What Does 2018 Hold for AI in Publishing ?”

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Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

“ 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

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Coursera announces on its blog that it’s expanding to Brazil. It’s good to shake up your “everyone should learn to code” messaging sometimes, I guess. Here’s Coursera arguing “Why Everyone Should Learn Sales.” .” “Whatever Happened To MOOCs ?”

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Hack Education

JULY 21, 2017

Coursera has a new partner , the insurance company AXA , which will offer some 300 Coursera classes to its employees. ” “ Personalized learning ” equals cutting the teacher workforce in Oklahoma. There’s a nifty infographic, which Melinda Gates shared on Twitter. (

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