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5 Ed-Tech Ideas Face The Chronicle’s Version of ‘Shark Tank’

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Freedman: I love where you started with the criticism of the MOOCs. I mean, MOOCs aren’t learning platforms, they’re distribution platforms. So, first move to a framework based on student learning outcomes, faculty-student interactions based on pedagogy — not schedule. So I think you’re focused on the right place.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via NPR : “Outcry After Louisiana Teacher Arrested During School Board Meeting.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Techcrunch : “ URB-E ’s launching a scooter sharing network at college campuses and hotels.” This is how well your district does.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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“To Save Students Money, Colleges May Force a Switch to E-Textbooks,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reported in 2010. The story examined a proposed practice: “Colleges require students to pay a course-materials fee, which would be used to buy e-books for all of them (whatever text the professor recommends, just as in the old model).”

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Via WaPo’s Valerie Strauss : “ Trump ’s rather weird meeting with the 2017 Teachers of the Year.” “5 Reasons Why e-textbooks in Egypt Would Be Inequitable” by Maha Bali. ” From the press release : “ MOOCs and books initiative launched by Springer and Federica Weblearning.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Protestors were outside the meeting in force. ” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “More than 50 groups have signed a letter demanding that Candice E. Rebecca Schuman is back with her annual “ Rate My JIL ,” where she skewers the higher ed job market. “Local control,” sure.