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It’s not really “free Internet,” of course – it’s Facebook as Internet. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “Aftermath of the MOOC wars: Can commercial vendors support creative higher education ? Raise $146.1 ” asks “Dean Dad” Matt Reed.

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Via The Chicago Tribune : “Almost all student loan fraud claims involve for-profit colleges , study finds.” ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” The University of Iceland has joined edX. ” Education Dive profiles Khan Academy’s Khan Lab School. (It

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “No College Kid Needs a Water Park to Study,” says James Koch in a NYT op-ed , criticizing schools spending money on lavish amenities. Via The New York Times : “ Facebook Overhauls News Feed to Focus on What Friends and Family Share.”

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Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via The Post and Courier : “ South Carolina ’s online charter schools: A $350 million investment with disappointing returns.” “Mark Zuckerberg just unveiled Facebook ’s new mission statement,” says The Verge. Study Shows Choices Are Slim.”

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Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Microsoft -Branded MOOCs for K–12 Leaders.” ” “San Francisco’s competitive lightsaber academy opens this week,” says BoingBoing. Khan Academy wants to start offering diplomas. Small world).

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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. For their part, critics of laptop bans claimed the studies the op-eds frequently cite were flawed, reductive, and out-of-date. The Intel Education Study App has now too been discontinued. And on and on and on.

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.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via the Iowa City Press-Citizen : “ Iowa families foregoing classroom for virtual school.” Acumen “senior innovation associate” writes about +Acumen in Edsurge : “The Flip Side of Abysmal MOOC Completion Rates ? ” Wheee.