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Lego’s Parent Company Acquires Edtech Firm BrainPOP

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The company that owns Lego is diving headlong into K-12 education’s switch to digital. Kirkbi A/S, the private investment and holding company that owns a controlling stake in Lego, acquired the video animation company BrainPOP for $875 million. The deal was announced Tuesday. Lego owner Kirkbi is to acquire U.S.

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Learning Designers Call for More User Testing of Edtech Products and Teaching Materials

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These days there’s a wave of new edtech products hitting the market, and teachers and professors are increasingly making teaching videos and other materials for their classes. from the MIT Media Lab and has been working on design of educational materials for more than a decade, said it’s not that edtech companies don’t do any testing.

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A Proctoring Company Tried to Sue an Edtech Critic. He’s Fighting Back in Court.

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The hearing will test what critics of the case say was a suit meant to silence concerns about a controversial edtech service. In 2020, the digital proctoring company Proctorio brought a lawsuit against Ian Linkletter, who was then a learning technology specialist at the University of British Columbia. Don't be a Proctorio partner.

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Wakelet and WeVideo: Powerful Distance Learning Edtech

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He’s currently teaching Digital Leadership, Python Coding and Video Production at Cavallini Middle School in Upper Saddle River, NJ. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. If you don’t have Google Docs, just use this PDF.

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When the Pandemic Hit, Edtech Companies Threw Out Their Roadmaps and Changed Course

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In late April, more than a month into COVID-induced school closures, Matt Goodwin, senior director of product management at Instructure, the company behind the Canvas learning management system, explained how the pandemic was upending his company’s development process. “We Learn more about this EdSurge Research project.)

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Facebook Seems to Be Adding Video-Course Features. For Edtech, That Raises Old Fears.

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The tech giant Meta, widely known under its previous name Facebook, seems to be eyeing a way to allow users to offer video classes. A consultant recently noticed a company announcement about the features in the U.K. The company did not respond to questions about the program.

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Edtech Trends From 2020 And Beyond

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I’m the CTO of a tech company and for more than five years I have been busy with teaching programming courses and sharing my expertise with novice specialists. 6 Edtech Trends to Keep an Eye On. Video-Based Learning. Videos are extremely beneficial to make content comprehensible and enrich lessons. Gamification.

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