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Last week as part of its glitzy annual conference in Long Beach, California, TED awarded its $1 million prize to Sugata Mitra to support his wish to build a “School in the Cloud,” a self-organized learning environment based on his “Hole in the Wall” and “Granny Cloud” research. Next week...

Politics It’s March 1. Cue the sequestration, across the board budget cuts because our “leaders” in Washington DC can’t do their jobs. The White House has released a state-by-state breakdown of how this will impact people and programs, which as education reporter Emily Richmond points out, will overwhelmingly impact the...

I have given a number of talks lately on this topic: who owns education data? (And will give a couple more next week -- on a panel at SXSWedu and then, a related but expanded version as a keynote at WebWise.) I'm not sure why the topic has resonated so...

MOOCs MOOC MOOC MOOC MOOC MOOC MOOC MOOC MOOC MOOC MOOC MOOC and so on... UC Irvine professor Richard McKenzie left his Coursera-run economics MOOC mid-stream this past week “because of disagreements over how to best conduct this course,” reports The Chronicle of Higher Education. According to the article, a UC...

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The State of the Union (per Obama) President Barack Obama gave his annual State of the Union address on Tuesday (text via White House blog). In it, he offered praise and outlined proposals for technology and education. Among them:   a shout-out for 3D Printing a shout-out for P-Tech high...

The “NYTimes article about Tesla range in cold is fake,” Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk tweeted on Monday. “Vehicle logs tell true story that he didn’t actually charge to max & took a long detour.” Disputing John Broder’s article “Stalled on the E.V. Highway,” Musk said he had data...

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Every week (or so), Steve Hargadon and I sit down (virtually) to talk about the latest ed-tech news and the stories that I've written here on Hack Education. In this week's recording, we talk about the talks I recently gave at Educon and ELI on the politics of ed-tech and...

Building an Student Data Infrastructure The Shared Learning Collaborative, a Gates Foundation-funded initiative, rebranded itself this week. There’s a new name — inBloom, Inc. — but the mission and plans remain the same, the new non-profit insists. That mission is to build an open source, cloud-based education data infrastructure in...