Maybe Colleges Should Worry Less About MOOCs and More About Textbook Companies?

February 4, 2013

Maybe Colleges Should Worry Less About MOOCs and More About Textbook Companies?

The biggest ed tech deals of the year were Pearson’s $650 million purchase of Embanet Compass, which provides online learning services to colleges and universities, and John Wiley & Sons’ $220 million acquisition of Deltak Edu, an online degree services company. Both online learning companies have been around since the mid to late 1990s.

Coursera is a drop in the bucket. And the Great Squeeze is coming…

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February 4, 2013 at 7:54 pm

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CogDog

February 5, 2013 at 4:16 am

No one seems to wonder where these hundreds of millions of dollars comes from

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My current work focuses on how students and citizens can use AI for “co-reasoning”, learning to tap into the power of LLMs to both model and critique arguments.

As creator of the SIFT methodology, I have taught thousands of teachers and students how to verify claims and sources through his workshops. My book with Sam Wineburg, Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online, was published by the University of Chicago Press in November 2023.

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