Shreeharsh Kelkar

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The Trouble with “Freedom”: Educational Progressives, Silicon Valley and the Question of Reform

Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and venture capitalists have set their sights on education as a sector ripe for “disruption.” Some want to radically transform the sciences of learning by applying cutting-edge machine learning techniques to educational data; others hope to create an app economy for students and learners that augments, or…

Edtech

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The Trouble with “Freedom”: Educational Progressives, Silicon Valley and the Question of Reform

Edtech

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Are Surveillance Capitalists Behaviorists? No. Does It Matter? Maybe.

The release of the documentary The Social Dilemma has understandably irritated scholars who study the social dimensions of science and technology. Lisa Messeri’s Twitter thread has an excellent summary of all that’s wrong with the documentary (all of which I agree with). But the documentary’s starting point — that…

Social Media

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Are Surveillance Capitalists Behaviorists? Does It Matter? No, and Maybe.

Social Media

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·Jul 23, 2021

The 2U acquisition of edX and the case of Open edX: What does “open source” mean today?

A few weeks ago, the MOOC company edX announced yet another of its long line of pivots. Its patrons, Harvard and MIT, were selling off their edX stake to the for-profit online program management (OPM) provider 2U. In effect, edX, which had always touted its non-profit status as an asset…

Edx

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The 2U acquisition of edX and the case of Open edX: What does “open source” mean today?

Edx

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