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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via The New Yorker : “ Georgia ’s Separate and Unequal Special-Education System.” 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. State and Local) Education Politics.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Clickers” are definitely not new — indeed, in my research for Teaching Machines , I found examples of classroom response systems dating back to the 1950s. 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.

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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. Key Data Systems has acquired Progress Testing. ” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. Embibe has raised $180 million from Reliance.