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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “ Andrew Ng , Co-Founder of Coursera , Returns to MOOC Teaching With New AI Course.” ” Via Techcrunch : “ Sony wants to digitize education records using the blockchain.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Chalkbeat investigates the Indiana Virtual School : “As students signed up, online school hired barely any teachers – but founder’s company charged it millions.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. For-Profit Colleges.” ” asks Wired.

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'Robots Are Coming For Your Jobs'

Hack Education

” I’ve looked at how for-profit colleges , MOOCs , and learn-to-code companies have tapped into these narratives in order to justify their products and services. ” That’s because the stories told this year to keep us hustling and to keep up imagining a certain kind of future are almost all about robots.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. “ Teaching assistant robots will reinvent academia,” Times Higher Education claims. Via Techcrunch : “ Sony now has a Koov robotics learning kit for US classrooms.” An education IPO!