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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

This is coupled with free online learning, career based mentoring and apprenticeship. This is done through the development of skills in ICT, employable skills as well as entrepreneurship. At the end of the program, the youth are empowered to start their own ventures and equipped to thrive in the labour market.90%

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security. In 2012, Pearson, Cengage Learning, and Macmillan Higher Education sued Boundless Learning, claiming that the open education textbook startup had “stolen the creative expression of their authors and editors, violating their intellectual-property rights.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Testing, Testing… “ Common Core testing group wages aggressive campaign against critics on social media,” according to The Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss. ” (That giant: Pearson , of course.). Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). MOOCs for credit !