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Hack Education Weekly News

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” It’s being positioned here as the first time Congress has funded open textbooks, but it’s not the federal government’s first commitment to OER. ” “ OER , CARE , Stewardship, and the Commons” by “Econproph” Jim Luke. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?). Think the private school startup Bridge International Academies that operates in Africa, for example, which Peg Tyre documented so devastatingly in The New York Times Magazine this summer.).

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Hack Education Weekly News

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“The Education of Betsy DeVos ” – a profile of the Secretary of Education in Politico Magazine. Educators Discuss Pros and Cons of Learning Analytics.” The company is co-founded by Nick Ducoff, formerly of the OER textbook startup Boundless. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” asks Wired.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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“Can robotics teach problem solving to students?” “Learning technology once reserved for special needs students is now in everyone’s hands. ” “Of OER and Platforms: Five Years Later” by Lumen Learning’s David Wiley. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via the New York Magazine : “The Death of Vine Makes the Internet a Worse Place.” Via eCampus News : “ Barnes & Noble Education announces advanced OER courseware.” ” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “When the Teaching Assistant Is a Robot.” The CEO has resigned.