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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

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It’s hard to remember now, but many industry colleagues felt edtech was a frothy market in 2017. LMS and Digital Learning topped the hype cycle in 2001 (a few years before Blackboard went public). MOOCs topped the cycle in 2012. A small but mighty movement was building – and it needed time to grow. OPMs topped the cycle in 2015.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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Herbert Simon, a pioneer in artificial intelligence and learning engineering who died in 2001, is immersed in his office at Carnegie Mellon University. And while many educators believe that word problems in math class are tougher for students to grasp than ones with mathematical notation, research shows that the opposite is true.

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