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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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Only 58% of students who started college in 2012 had graduated 6 years later. If both happen together, that’s a 9x improvement in the rate of learning.” The system sends students a text or e-mail 24 to 48 hours after a class, with one multiple-choice question about the material.

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Education's Online Futures

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And then there were MOOCs , of course, and all those predictions and all those promises about the end of college as we know it: “MOOCs make education borderless, gender-blind, race-blind, class-blind and bank account-blind” and similar fables. Vive la MOOC Révolution. Adam Medros became edX’s president and COO.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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“After Gayle Manchin took over the National Association of State Boards of Education in 2012, she spearheaded an unprecedented effort that encouraged states to require schools to purchase medical devices that fight life-threatening allergic reactions,” writes USA Today. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”).

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Education Technology and the Promise of 'Free' and 'Open'

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The Rebranding of MOOCs. Remember 2012 , “ The Year of the MOOC? ” Remember in 2012 when Udacity co-founder Sebastian Thrun predicted that in fifty years, “there will be only 10 institutions in the world delivering higher education and Udacity has a shot at being one of them”?

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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. 3D printing, The Economist pronounced in 2012 , was poised to bring about the third industrial revolution. (I Publishers have sought to restrict libraries’ access to e-book lending, for example, blaming libraries for declining sales.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Private School With Low Vaccination Rates.” ” Via e-Literate : “Fall 2017 Top 30 Largest Online Enrollments In US – With LMS Usage and Trends Since 2012.” .” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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officials approve new rating system.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ Coursera Removes Biometric Identity Verification Using Keystroke Matching,” Class Central reports. Via The New York Times : “ CUNY to Revamp Remedial Programs, Hoping to Lift Graduation Rates.”