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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via Gamasutra : “Parents take Subway Surfers devs to court over alleged misuse of kids’ data.” ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “ Andrew Ng , Co-Founder of Coursera , Returns to MOOC Teaching With New AI Course.” ” More via Wired.

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Education Technology and the History of the Future of Credentialing

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Throughout the year, the Department of Education also took steps to strengthen the oversight of accreditors, adding requirements regarding data that they had to report to the government and to the public as well as pressuring accreditors to do more to improve “student outcomes” at the schools they monitored. Or it was.).

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Chalkbeat investigates the Indiana Virtual School : “As students signed up, online school hired barely any teachers – but founder’s company charged it millions.” Via Techcrunch : “Sony reboots Aibo with AI and extra kawaii.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Techcrunch : “ Sony now has a Koov robotics learning kit for US classrooms.” Data, Surveillance, and Information Security. ” Via Motherboard : “‘ Minecraft ’ Data Mining Reveals Players’ Darkest Secrets.”

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'Robots Are Coming For Your Jobs'

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” I’ve looked at how for-profit colleges , MOOCs , and learn-to-code companies have tapped into these narratives in order to justify their products and services. Sony’s in the business. These have all been separate articles in each series. “More Americans just need the right training.” Training Ed-Tech.