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Income Share Agreements Dominate Y Combinator’s Latest Education Graduates

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Presenters at this week’s Demo Day include coding schools, a program to organize student loans and a startup that matches nascent developers with senior mentors to build projects for potential employers. Blair also helps place users into jobs and offers mentorship, resume help and interview training. They’ve got it all wrong.”

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Lessons from Boise: What colleges can teach us about fostering innovation

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Green Mind demo. Media interest in formalized online learning, or “peak MOOC,” occurred in about 2012, and with it the mandate that everyone must learn to code. Similarly, training across an organization can encourage horizontal thinking?—?employees Lumineye demo. Photo credit Madison Park, Boise State University.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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There are a variety of reasons for this: language barriers, lack of Internet access, incompatible devices, lack of training. In 2013, on the heels of “the Year of the MOOC,” Barber released a report titled “An Avalanche is Coming,” calling for the “unbundling” of higher education. Brain Training. Uber for Education". “We

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?Meet Intel Education Accelerator’s Newest Cohort of EdTech Visionaries

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It was an edtech entrepreneur’s dream on Wednesday at Intel’s Education Accelerator Demo Day. And although Comprend.io’s co-founders Dan Nash and Sean Hookano-Briel initially targeted K-12 schools for the tool, it seems the corporate sector, which has increasingly turned to MOOCs to train employees, has taken a liking to it even more.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via Inside Higher Ed : “Career Training Groups Encouraged by Trump Pick for CTE Job.” ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” The Business of Job Training. ” In fact, Axios suggests that Google might have staged the demo it gave of its new voice assistant.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” An op-ed in Forbes by University Ventures’ Ryan Craig : “Make Online Education Great (For The First Time).” ” The Business of Job Training. Via Quartz : “So long, banana-condom demos: Sex and drug education could soon come from chatbots.”