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” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” The University of Iceland has joined edX. ” Education Dive profiles KhanAcademy’s Khan Lab School. (It It will be interesting to compare the success or failure of Khan Lab School with the failure of AltSchool. Will they make it happen?
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