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How do you focus on being innovative while still teaching the curriculum?

The Principal of Change

I have seen so many schools get devices like tablets and they ask immediately, “What apps would you download?” September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon! IMMOOC March 9, 2017 An Idea to Innovation to Best Practice March 21, 2017 Flipping the Script; 3 Obstacles to Innovation Viewed Differently.

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?Meet Intel Education Accelerator’s Newest Cohort of EdTech Visionaries

Edsurge

And although Comprend.io’s co-founders Dan Nash and Sean Hookano-Briel initially targeted K-12 schools for the tool, it seems the corporate sector, which has increasingly turned to MOOCs to train employees, has taken a liking to it even more. million assessments, and is on track to hit 4 million in 2017. It’s been used for more than 2.5

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) ” MOOCs looked – for a short while, at least – like they were going to pivot to become LMSes. They’re supposedly “engines of innovation.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Education Next on “Interpreting the 2017 NAEP Reading and Math Results.” The company sells a tablet for use in prison. There’s more financial aid news in the “research” section below and in the “courts” section above.

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International ed tech and pedagogical projects: notes from INTED 2017

Bryan Alexander

MOOCs: simply present in the ed tech space, without the hype crash America experienced. Interesting studies and projects, from using MOOCs on mobile devices to former colonies accessing courses created by their prior colonizers. Android) tablets, and has successfully used this in various remote locations in Kenya.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Congratulations, STEM folks and learn-to-code evangelists, for being featured in President Trump’s list of his 2017 accomplishments. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). I dunno… Via Techcrunch : “ IBM led on patents in 2017, Facebook broke into top 50 for the first time.”

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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. In 2017, just a week before Christmas, the New Media Consortium abruptly announced its immediate closure “because of apparent errors and omissions by its former Controller and Chief Financial Officer.” Good for you. with Pigeons.

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