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Trends to watch in 2015: education and technology

Bryan Alexander

Here I’d like to identify trends from 2015 which seem likely to persist or grow over the next year. 2015 had a martyr for textbook costs, but I haven’t seen this inspire any movements towards cheaper texts. Personalized learning is winning a growing amount of attention, but no off-the-shelf tech solutions.

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Florida Virtual School mirgrates to Brightspace

eSchool News

had nearly 400,000 completed semester enrollments in the 2015-16 academic year. Since the platform incorporates personalized learning, teachers can deliver their lessons with much greater flexibility and give each student the personal experience they need to succeed.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?). The company sold The Financial Times and its stake in The Economist in 2015, for example. And then there’s Mark Zuckerberg’s venture philanthropy firm and its commitment to fund “personalized learning.”

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Revolution in Higher Education: chapter 4

Bryan Alexander

Continuing with our reading of Richard DeMillo’s Revolution in Higher Education: How a Small Band of Innovators Will Make College Accessible and Affordable (2015) ( publisher ; Amazon ): this week we’re discussing chapter 4, “Technology Curves.” That’s not where the chapter begins. ” (2247).

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. The startup was later sold to Valore Education in 2015 , which was in turn acquired by Follett in 2016 , which in turn shut down the Boundless site in 2017. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

The governor, a Republican elected in 2015, announced on Friday that he had disbanded the university’s current 20-member Board of Trustees. weeks in 2015.” “Can Venture Capital Put Personalized Learning Within Reach of All Students?” This is compared with averages of $11,063 and 10.8

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

“The Growing Role of Technology in Personalized Learning ,” according to KQED’s Mindshift. Most certainly food for thought touting the power of “ learning analytics.” Via Education Week : “ Special Education Enrollment Rose in 2015–16.” “The New Gold Rush? .”