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In June, a Unique Chance for Educators to Renew, Remix, Reimagine at CLMOOC

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Infuriated by recent news that Facebook had conducted secret psychology tests on its users, Assistant Professor of Education Ian O’Byrne of the University of New Haven created a satirical digital game called Facepalm. So who is the MOOC designed for? During another week, participants designed games.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

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Nor has it stopped Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg from making “personalized learning” a centerpiece of his venture philanthropy firm’s education work or from vowing to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on it. Whatever “it” is. So is “personalized learning” really a “trend”?

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before Congress this week about privacy, data, monopoly power, and regulations. And there’s more Facebook-related news in several of the sections below. ” Via The Verge : “ Facebook -backed lawmakers are pushing to gut privacy law.” (National) Education Politics.

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Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via the Coursera blog : “New mobile features: Transcripts, notes, and reminders.” " It’s lovely to see the big innovation from the MOOC startups in 2017 involves the learning management system. ” Udacity has updated its online "classroom."

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” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). MOOC hype deja vu.). com : “2 students, teacher injured in shooting at Townville Elementary [in South Carolina ]; teen in custody.” Via ProPublica , the first in its “Breaking the Black Box” series: “What Facebook Knows About You.”

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” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Techcrunch : “ Facebook launches Youth Portal to educate teens on the platform, how their data is being used.” Via The Blade : “School that took ECOT students wants poor scores ignored.” Venture Capital and the Business of Education.

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The Salt Lake City school board has voted to rename Jackson Elementary. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Class Central : “ TU Delft Students Can Earn Credit For MOOCs From Other Universities.” Or rather, its education head Jim Shelton made a Facebook status update to that effect.

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