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4 Ways Edtech Entrepreneurs Can Earn Trust and Unlock New Opportunities With Education Customers

Edsurge

In 2002, a critical transition occurred when 94 percent of public schools secured always-on broadband connections, granting educators and students increased access to rich media content.

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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

” This letter marked the launch of the implementation of the first federal program dedicated to ensuring universal access to information and communications technology for improved teaching and learning in the nation’s schools. By 2002, a new education law had replaced the program and a new presidential administration was in place.

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Shapegrams: Grab-and-Go Google Drawings Lessons

Shake Up Learning

A Shapegrams membership gets you access to all Shapegrams and gives you a license to distribute them to your students. Learning in Hand started in 2002 as part of my classroom website. Since 1998 I’ve been a pioneer in digital learning, having a classroom website before many classrooms even had internet access.

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SIIA, a Pioneering Convenor for the Edtech Industry, Scraps Its Conferences

Edsurge

SIIA also created an “incubator” program in 2006 to support early-stage education companies, long before the idea became popular in the edtech industry. Broadband internet access and cloud computing made it easier to distribute educational software once sold on floppy disks and CD-ROMs.

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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

Edsurge

In 2002, our team at Microsoft Education created an LMS for a world where every teacher and student had a tablet computer. Although we were convinced that technology could transform education, simple internet access was patchy at best. The web was increasing its use of graphics, but had barely adopted video. billion in 2010.

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

Learning with 'e's

It is a complex network of dynamic resources that we all acknowledge is constantly changing to adapt to the growing demand for entertainment, communication and access to knowledge. van Dijk, 2002) or simply another phase in its relentless progress. Continued tomorrow References Barsky, E. and Purdon, M. Introducing Web 2.0: Maramba, I.

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The survival of higher education (1): Changing roles

Learning with 'e's

I urged universities to develop new strategies that were based upon digital technologies to widen access, increase quality and generally subscribe to the idea that students need no longer attend traditional lectures to achieve quality learning outcomes (Wheeler, 2004). Maidenhead: Open University Press. and Moonen, J. London: Kogan Page.