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The Asian Money Fueling US Edtech Investments

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Increasingly, Asian companies are also investing abroad to find fresh ideas and tools to bring to their local markets. TAL Education Group , which began as a solo tutoring operation in 2003 and has since grown into a publicly-traded empire, boasting $620 million in revenue in 2015 from a network of over 300 brick-and-mortar tutoring centers.

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What Does the Popularity of Pokémon Go Mean for K-12 Gaming? A Q-and-A With James Gee

Marketplace K-12

He has written several books on the role of games and learning, including What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy (2003) and Language and Learning (2004). In fact, it’s been said, and I think I agree, that it’s not much of a game, but it’s a great gamification of the social media experience.

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It’s Pedagogy Go With Location-Based Mobile Learning At The University Of South Australia

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“Pedagogy on the go: Roger Edmonds of the University of South Australia outlines how his institution are turning phones into central pedagogical tools”. Wijers, Jonker and Drijvers (2010) highlight that the potential for engagement increases when gamification features such as rules, goals, points and activities are added. Introduction.