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” “Who’s Meeting With DeVos ? Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via Edsurge : “ Robots Won’t Replace Instructors , 2 Penn State Educators Argue. Department ’s Privacy Office to Take Effect in Early 2019.”
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” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Via The New York Times : “Moving to Make Amends, Georgetown President Meets With Descendant of Slaves.” ” Via Techcrunch : “Meet Box Island , a new iOS game that aims to teach kids the fundamentals of code.”
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” Last year , the Ugandan government decreed that company’s schools be shut down because they failed to meet education and sanitation requirements; Kenyan courts have also ordered the schools to close. Are MOOCs webinars? Are webinars now MOOCs?). ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. “Tele-instruction.”
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