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Five Questions With An EdTech CEO: Daniel Fountenberry Of Borne Digital
As Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. advances further into the K-12 education piece with it’s Amplify business selling tablets, educational video games and books to school districts, other...
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A Quest To Match A 4-Year Liberal Arts Degree With 12 Months of MOOCs
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Stanford Experiments With Digital Course Designed To Help Students Overcome...
Professor Jo Boaler’s new online course provides teachers and parents with a different way to teach mathematics, an approach that her research has shown helps students to overcome their fear of the...
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Michael Horn On Sebastian Thrun & Georgia Tech Crossing The Rubicon To The...
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Learn-to-code site Thinkful carves a niche between MOOCs and expensive...
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Interview: Knewton’s David Kuntz On ‘Better and Faster’, Adaptive Learning
David Kuntz By Jill Barshay, The Hechinger Report When education investors talk about so-called adaptive learning, in which a computer tailors instructional software personally for each student, the...
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VIDEO: Hard Lessons From The Udacity/San Jose State MOOC Fumble
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By Chris Berdik Chaitu Dandu is a 16-year-old computer hacker. But he isn’t after your passwords, social security number or credit card information. Neither were the hundreds of other young hackers who...
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By Ryan Craig The trope of overlooking the hero based on appearances goes back as long as stories have been told. In the Bible, King David, the youngest and least impressive of his 7 brothers, was...
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By Caroline McNair We’ve heard about the dangers of the Internet so much it’s beginning to sound like a broken record: it’s a mecca for pornography, a catalyst for narcissism and an invasion of our...
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