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How Blockbuster MOOCs Could Shape the Future of Teaching

Edsurge

After all, so-called MOOCs, or massive open online courses, were meant to open education to as many learners as possible, and in many ways they are more like books (digital ones, packed with videos and interactive quizzes) than courses. One of the newest blockbuster MOOCs is The Science of Well-Being, offered by a Yale University professor.

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Technology in Schools – Future Changes in the Classroom.

EdTech4Beginners

With the ease of Google Apps and similar applications, employees and students alike can share files and work on documents and spreadsheets in real time – whether they’re a mile down the road or in a different country altogether. What they don’t see is the infrastructure underneath that’s driving the whole project. Open Ended Education.

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Education Technology's Inequalities

Hack Education

In April, journalist Anya Kamenetz looked closely at “ Pearson’s Quest to Cover the Planet in Company-Run Schools ”: "Pearson would like to become education’s first major conglomerate, serving as the largest private provider of standardized tests, software, materials, and now the schools themselves.