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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

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This year’s 1 3th edition will swamp San Diego’s waterfront for four days and feature 1,000 speakers, including Thomas Friedman and Margaret Atwood, plus the buzziest for-profit companies in our industry. based education and workforce technology companies, together amounting to more than $150 billion in market capitalization.

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Higher education in India is moving ahead on the global stage.

Linways Technologies

India has seen a massive expansion in the higher education sector – an almost four-fold increase in enrolments and institutions since 2001. Between 1996 and 2001, India and China had similar GERs. To address the skills gap in fresh hires, many companies are forced to invest in lengthy training programmes.

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For Online Class Discussions, Instructors Move From Text to Video

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“The threaded discussion felt always like the wrong medium for learning,” says Joyce Valenza, an assistant teaching professor at Rutgers University's School of Communication and Information, who has been teaching online since 2001. Most teachers use the free version, but the company offers a more full-featured product that costs $65-per year.

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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. In recent years, Simon’s ideas have found new traction, thanks to new computing technologies that would have seemed alien in the ’60s.

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Campus Closures. What’s Tech Got to Do With It?

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It’s not alone: the parent company that owns the for-profit Argosy University and Art Institutes, Dream Center Education Holdings LLC, is “ discontinuing campus-based programs ” at seven of its campuses in California. Internationally, the market shattered its own funding record, with 813 different companies landing a total of $9.52

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NCLB’s legacy: As the ESSA era begins, have policymakers, educators learned from the past?

The Hechinger Report

Passed in 2001, the No Child Left Behind Act was the centerpiece of President George W. Whether that’s an aberration or a trend is something that will require another year of test scores to determine. Related: Senate bill proposes a new education technology program in No Child Left Behind, with teacher training a priority.

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A Call to Remake the Maker Faire

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Of all the learning trends of the past 20 years, one of the most sweeping and impactful has been the rise of the maker movement. After 15 years of inspiring millions of people to be creative and “make” something out of just about nothing, Maker Media, the company behind much of momentum, shut down due to financial shortfalls.