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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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If both happen together, that’s a 9x improvement in the rate of learning.” The system sends students a text or e-mail 24 to 48 hours after a class, with one multiple-choice question about the material.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “Peter Thiel May Finally Get His Flying Cars, Thanks to a New Udacity Nanodegree in 2018.” From the Knewton blog : “ Introducing Knewton Product Updates for Fall 2017.” ” The startup is called Learning Beautiful. .”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

According to excerpts of speeches published by Wikileaks – stolen data – Clinton called the Common Core a “political failure” in a speech she gave to Knewton. Neither Knewton nor the Clinton campaign have confirmed the veracity of this leaked speech. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”).

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Gotta keep hyping that MOOC thing. Via Edsurge : “ MOOCs Are No Longer Massive. ” Via Class Central : “Class Central’s Top 50 MOOCs of All Time (2018 edition).” despite having Arizona ’s third-highest dropout rate.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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“To Save Students Money, Colleges May Force a Switch to E-Textbooks,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reported in 2010. The story examined a proposed practice: “Colleges require students to pay a course-materials fee, which would be used to buy e-books for all of them (whatever text the professor recommends, just as in the old model).”

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” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). “ OpenStax , Knewton introduce adaptive learning into OER.” ” From Mindwires Consulting: “ e-Literate Big Picture: LMS.” ” Via NPR : “ Paying Students May Raise Test Scores, But The Lesson Is Not Over.”

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Hack Education

Not Net Neutrality, but another potential FCC move – ending the E-Rate program. MOOCs are out. ” Inside Higher Ed on Knewton ’s “pivot.” ” Via Futurism : “ Global E-Waste Increased by Eight Percent since 2014.” ” More on the bill via Inside Higher Ed.

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