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Hack Education Weekly News

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“ Can a For-Profit, Venture-Backed Company Keep OER Free – and Be Financially Sustainable? ” (Note: there’s a response to this article by Georgia Tech professor Ashok Goel, who builds teaching chat-bots, in the “robots” section below. ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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The business of OER. From the Edmodo blog : “We’re Partnering with Clever to Give Districts Automatic Digital Classrooms!” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. The company, which makes educational and entertainment robots, has raised $520 million total. The business of Peter Thiel.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” “ No Sign of Edtech In Department of Education’s Full Federal Budget Proposal,” Edsurge frets. ” Via Edsurge : “ EDUCAUSE Adds Emerging Edtech Membership for Small Companies, Hints at Overhaul.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Implications for K–12 Business.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. But the “spying” has continued.

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