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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). “ Is The LMS A Distraction In EdTech Futurology? ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via the IBM press release : “How Watson Education , Scholastic and Edmodo are using AI to close the learning gap.” ” asks Edsurge.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” (Note: there’s a response to this article by Georgia Tech professor Ashok Goel, who builds teaching chat-bots, in the “robots” section below. ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Edmodo had raised some $77.5

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” The University of Iceland has joined edX. From the Edmodo blog : “We’re Partnering with Clever to Give Districts Automatic Digital Classrooms!” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “Why Haven’t MOOCs Eliminated Any Professors?” “​ Intel Hits Pause on Edtech Accelerator,” says Edsurge. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” asks IHE blogger Joshua Kim. That’s UploadVR.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. 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. For a time, Edmodo was quite the ed-tech industry darling.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via EdScoop : “Two edtech champions to join White House offices as fellows.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Responses to last week’s news about Western Governors University and the audit of its competency-based offerings: Via NPR : “Who Is A College Teacher, Anyway? .”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” “ No Sign of Edtech In Department of Education’s Full Federal Budget Proposal,” Edsurge frets. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Slate : “ The New Diploma Mills.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Implications for K–12 Business.”