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A new “MicroMasters” online learning program offered by major universities

The Hechinger Report

Galileo University, Guatemala (e-Learning, offered in Spanish; Professional Android Developer). In recent years these types of courses, known as MOOCs or Massive Online Open Courses, have developed a reputation as being big on hype and low on substantive change. The completion rates for these free, open courses remain very low.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” At least the e-cigarette company (which targets teens) offers a social-emotional learning curriculum, right? ” Via the AP : “ District of Columbia Mayor Muriel E. Billion in Android Antitrust Case.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Fines Google $5.1 ” Testing.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Here’s Edsurge’s “exclusive” on the news that Android apps will soon be able on Chromebooks. ” From Mindwires Consulting: “ e-Literate Big Picture: LMS.” ” Upgrades and Downgrades.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

“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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