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Lisa Levinson

| Education and Venture Capital Funding - 0 views

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    Interesting link from Steven Downes' Daily about where education and venture capital funding are colliding. According to Clarence Fisher, a classroom teacher blogger, most venture capital funding is not going to increase technology learning and future learning, but is going to reinforce the "basics". He exempts Coursera, but Downes questions them somewhat, too.
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    Interesting article on where venture capital is going in education-not to online, DIY, make your meaning kinds of learning but to reinforce basic skills learning.
Lisa Levinson

Harvard and M.I.T. Offer Free Online Courses - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    MIT and Harvard have teamed up to offer MOOCs, and this month Stanford, Princeton, U of PA, U of MI have created a new commercial company, Coursera, with $16 million in venture capital.
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    This goes with the recent buzz on our Moocs. Here's the NYTimes article on the formation of heavy-hitter Moocs. It appears the Harvard MIT collaborative is also a research project on how people learn online, which could be interesting.
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