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Online Learning's 'Greatest Hits'

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The biggest occurred when instructional designers, long employed by industry, joined online academic teams, working closely with faculty to upload and integrate interactive and engaging content. Online learning is not just another edtech product, but an innovative teaching practice." The term MOOC was coined by others in 2008.)

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Your Syllabus to SXSW EDU 2019 (and Where to Find Us!)

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Between the barbeque and baristas, the dive bars and dueling pianos, thousands of educators, along with entrepreneurs, investors, researchers and policymakers across the education industry, will descend on Austin, Texas, during the first week of March for SXSW EDU. Join us for a slice of the action! Tuesday, March 5, 4 p.m. 12:30 p.m.

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The Asian Money Fueling US Edtech Investments

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education industry has not become so dependent (yet). The technologies built by these companies span a wide gamut of buzzwords (adaptive learning, artificial intelligence, gamification) but will be integrated with TAL’s online offerings. Sinovation also funds companies in other technology sectors including robotics and Big Data.)

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Can Online Education Lower Costs and Improve Quality?

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It’s called the Teaching Online Podcast, or TOPcast , and co-host Thomas Cavanagh says he is driven by his quest to figure out one of the grand challenges of higher education: how to use technology to raise the quality of instruction while lowering costs. How does that work? But we've got 68,000 students here.".

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‘Our Technology Is Our Ideology’: George Siemens on the Future of Digital Learning

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Rise of the robots Siemens has both an academic and an industry perspective on digital learning. The kind of knowledge that humans need to function in society looks different than it did during the Industrial Revolution. I think you teach creativity by giving facts and showing how to do things.”

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WHAT’S NEW

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Each education package comes with core-curricular lesson plans, design challenges, implementation guides, video training tutorials, “how-to” coding lessons, professional development webinars, support from the Kano staff, access to an educator community and more. The guide is available for free on the Makerbot website.

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WHAT’S NEW: NEW TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS

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CENTRALREACH PK-12 ( www.centralreach.com/industry/pk-12-education ) CentralReach launches CentralReach PK-12, a collaborative and data-driven software for special education. Learners will also study zSpace interactions, including how a user can manipulate objects in stereoscopic 3D.

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