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Searching for Digital Courseware Solutions? Avoid the Rabbit Hole

Edsurge

The Cheshire Cat’s advice to Alice has parallels in higher ed, especially for faculty trying to make sense of the multitude of digital courseware solutions in order to personalize learning for students. We know that we have to create a more personalized learning environment to do that. What problem do I need to solve?”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

College of Computing Professor Ashok Goel and his team used the 40,000 some odd questions that students had asked in previous versions of the course to build out Jill’s knowledge-base. Founded in 2008 by a former Kaplan executive Jose Ferreira, Knewton was one of the most heavily funded ed-tech startups of the decade.

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