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Hack Education Weekly News

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.” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). “ MOOCs no longer massive, still attract millions,” Class Central’s Dhawal Shah claims in a VentureBeat op-ed. Udacity ’s mobile apps now support “ offline learning.” Knewton has partnered with WebAssign.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “ Andrew Ng , Co-Founder of Coursera , Returns to MOOC Teaching With New AI Course.” The Wall Street Journal predicts “The End of Typing: The Next Billion Mobile Users Will Rely on Video and Voice.” ” More via Wired.

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” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “ Khan Academy introduces something big for little learners,” says the Khan Academy blog. ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” The virtual charter school in question: ECOT. Sounds like fun.

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” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “Why Haven’t MOOCs Eliminated Any Professors?” ” “ Zynga and USC enter social and mobile game design partnership,” says Education Dive. ” Edsurge profiles MEDSKL , which is like Khan Academy but for medical school.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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In 2013, on the heels of “the Year of the MOOC,” Barber released a report titled “An Avalanche is Coming,” calling for the “unbundling” of higher education. MOOCs are, no surprise, their own entry on this long list of awfulness. Robot essay graders — they grade just the same as human ones. But the “spying” has continued.

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Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Online education pioneer Tony Bates asks “ What is online learning ?” ” From the press release : “ MOOCs and books initiative launched by Springer and Federica Weblearning.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. The mobile app maker has raised $11.9

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Hack Education Weekly News

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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.