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

Doug Levin

Integrated Studies of Educational Technology: Implementing the Technology Literacy Challenge Fund – Educational Technology State Grants Program (Review Copy) (American Institutes for Research, 2002) **Note: Despite the fact that the report was conducted under the direction of the U.S.

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

Edsurge

Last week, the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) announced that its education technology group will no longer operate as its own division beginning July 1. SIIA dates back to 1984, when it was known as the Software Publishers Association. It was where you went to get deals done,” recalls Catalano.

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Ed tech companies promise results, but their claims are often based on shoddy research

The Hechinger Report

In 2002, federal education law began requiring schools to spend federal dollars on research-based products only. As more schools went online and demand for education software grew, more companies began designing and commissioning their own studies about their products. Some companies are trying to gain a foothold in a crowded market.

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Silver Lake Acquires Majority Stake in Weld North’s Digital Curriculum Business

Edsurge

The deal comes after KKR’s allotted capital for its investment in Weld North, which came from KKR’s 2006 fund, had run out. Frontline Education, which provides a suite of school administrative and human resources software, recently swapped private equity owners (from Insight Venture Partners to Thoma Bravo). Yet that’s not all.

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The changing Web

Learning with 'e's

Van Dijk, 2002) or simply another phase in its relentless progress. Social software is software that enables people to both read from, and write onto web spaces. has spawned concepts such as folksonomy, ‘Darwikianism’ and the ‘wisdom of the crowds’ (Kamel Boulos et al, 2006). 2006) Introducing Web 2.0: geotagging).

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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. Observing the internet revolution, Marc Andreessen famously wrote “ software is eating the world.” More than 80 percent of the edtech startups created in the past five years will not survive through 2020.

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

Learning with 'e's

van Dijk, 2002) or simply another phase in its relentless progress. The Social Web is comprised of software that enables people to both read from, and write onto web spaces. Debate centres upon whether the emerging social applications constitute a sea change or revolution in the Web (cf. Continued tomorrow References Barsky, E.

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