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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. The startup was later sold to Valore Education in 2015 , which was in turn acquired by Follett in 2016 , which in turn shut down the Boundless site in 2017. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.

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Education's Online Futures

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There was all that ink spilled circa 2010 that Khan Academy and “ flipped learning ” were going to “ change the rules of education ,” replacing in-class instruction with online videos watched as homework. Vive la MOOC Révolution. The British MOOC company FutureLearn entered the US market.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” edX is offering an online master’s degree with Georgia Tech : an OMS (online master’s in science) in Analytics. The Economist on “ The Return of the MOOC.” edX has partnered with the World Bank Group. More via Inside Higher Ed.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). UC Berkeley says it will remove online course content in response to a Department of Justice assertion that the materials violate the ADA as they are not fully accessible to those with disabilities. .” percent in 2016 to total $208.6 million total.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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.” The school recently announced that it would end its attempts to regain accreditation after the Department of Education withdrew recognition for the for-profit in 2016. ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). 17zuoye has raised $200 million in Series E funding from Toutiao.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” From the organization’s press release : the NAACP “ratified a resolution Saturday adopted by delegates at its 2016 107th National Convention calling for a moratorium on charter school expansion and for the strengthening of oversight in governance and practice.” ” Talking to them, I guess, is not an option.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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.” Education professor Yong Zhao has several blog posts on the results of PISA and TIMSS and what we can (and can’t) learn from them. Via NJ Spotlight : “Few Class of 2016 Graduates Manage to Pass PARCC Tests.” ” That’s 1 in 10 students in New Jersey , to be clear. ” Inside Higher Ed reports.