Ed tech headlines showed up in force this week, with Amherst University's decision to pass on edX and Brown University's new high school MOOC attracting lots of attention. If you need to get caught up on what went down and see which billionaires are trying to steer the future of education, check out the stories below:

• Amherst faculty shoot down edX partnership: The faculty decided to move into the online learning space on its own.
• Brown launches MOOC for high school students: Brown University claims to have launched the first MOOC for high school students, but is that true?
• 6 billionaires changing the face of education: Education's richest philanthropist and five other billionaires show up on our list of the field's most powerful pocketbooks.
• Stanford startup NovoEd brings collaborative learning to MOOCs: The startup seeks to meet student needs for group learning, leadership and critical thinking skills in the burgeoning online learning space
• Universities launch data science programs to meet booming industry demand: McKinsey Global Institute predicts there will 500,000 data science jobs available in five years—there just won't be enough data scientists to fill them. 

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