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Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics: Some Thoughts from ASU+GSV

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Remember, if you will, the insistence from the University of Virginia Board of Visitors that school was missing the “coming MOOC tsunami” based on columns they’d read in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. ” There was all the usual talk of job-stealing robots and the “ jobs that don’t exist yet.”

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(This Is Not a Morphology of) The Monsters of Education Technology

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“Nothing has more potential to enable us to reimagine higher education than the massive open online course, or MOOC, platforms that are being developed by the likes of Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and companies like Coursera and Udacity.” ” Robots are coming for our jobs. Montessori.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

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CZI hired Bror Saxberg , whose previous work was with the for-profit online charter school K12 Inc and the for-profit college Kaplan, as its learning scientist. Wonder Workshop (robotics) – $41 million. Robotics , with ~ $99 million in funding. It hired former PayPal exec Peggy Abkemeier Alford as its CFO.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Kaplan Will Offer Free Online PSAT Prep.” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Inside Higher Ed : “Humans, the Latest MOOC Feature.” Via WaPo : “Study: Robot baby dolls don’t curb teen pregnancies. ” More via Techcrunch.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Wait, so Purdue is gonna run Kaplan and a nuclear lab? ” Former Kaplan exec Justin Serrano has been hired as the president of Schoology. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. .” 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”). ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Edsurge reports that Weld North Education will still be run by former Kaplan exec Jonathan Grayer. For-profit colleges bought and sold in the “business of education” section below.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” That’s Kaplan University and the Art Institutes. More on the Kaplan news via The Chronicle of Higher Education. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “Peter Thiel May Finally Get His Flying Cars, Thanks to a New Udacity Nanodegree in 2018.” support, EFF resigns.”