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Can Technology in the Classroom Replace Expensive Textbooks

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Decrease in State Funding: The government has been scaling back on the funding on college education since the great recession of 2008. Post the recession, states cut inflation-adjusted spending on K–12 education by approximately 4% between 2008 and 2013. On the other hand, per-student tuition revenue has increased by 96%.

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Corporate Training Through MOOCs: Everything You Need to Know

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According to a recent report by Class Central , around 23 million new learners signed up for their first MOOC in 2017, taking the total number of learners to 81 million. Massive open online courses (MOOCs), which date back to 2008, are a game-changing model for delivering online learning content without any limit on attendance.