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The Microlearning Moment in Workplace Learning

Edsurge

The shift to remote work in the pandemic also fueled the purchase of low-cost subscriptions to online training libraries. The boom in short-form digital learning in the workplace doesn’t mean that classroom-based corporate training or more structured on-the-job learning is going away.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

More on student loans (namely, people in powerful political office with connections to the student loans industry) in the politics of education section above. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” If you can’t create revenue, raise venture capital. The MOOC provider has now raised $210 million total.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.”

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’” Via Education Week : “ FCC Seeks Comment on Access to WiFi for Schools and Libraries.” ” The New York Times looks at “A Legal Industry Built on Private School Sex Abuse.” ” Via The Telegraph : “ Saudi Arabia accidentally prints textbook showing Yoda sitting next to the king.”