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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Gotta keep that MOOC hype alive. “ MOOCs Find a New Audience with On-Campus Students,” Edsurge claims. Remember: robots for the elderly share a direct connection to MOOCs replacing higher ed.). ” More via The Chronicle of Higher Education.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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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. MOOCs are, no surprise, their own entry on this long list of awfulness. The Year of the MOOC". The New York Times declared 2012 “ the Year of the MOOC.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Edmentum has raised $25 million in debt financing from New Mountain Finance Corporation and Tennenbaum Capital Partners. ” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. There’s coding bootcamp news in the venture capital section below.