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” Wired on the project : “‘ ICE Is Everywhere’: Using Library Science to Map the Separation Crisis.” ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Inside Higher Ed : “Lessons Learned From a Consortium That Fizzled.” AdvancED and Measured Progress will merge.
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Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news from Edsurge in the “job training” section below. There’s more MOOC news from Edsurge in the “job training” section below. ” ( Not mentioned : Penn was one of the very first investors in Coursera.).
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ESSA gives more autonomy and flexibility to states than they had under NCLB through competency-based assessments, which could drive the development of personalizedlearning technologies. We might want to rethink how much of our own personal data we store across various companies’ servers as well.).
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