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Charting New Territories in PD: The Whitsby Story with ASCD

The CoolCatTeacher

She has been instrumental in the design of software using artificial intelligence for data-driven decisions in all content areas and the suite of services to facilitate the implementation of those products. Robert obtained their Master of Science degree in Engineering from Boise State University between 2002 and 2005.

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The Past Decade Forecasts a New Wave of Economic Opportunity in Education

Edsurge

In a world where the largest software vendors like Apple and Google don’t write the apps, we are at a tipping point as the worldwide gap widens between skills delivered by the current educational systems and those required by the digital economy.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Coursera ’s Daphne Koller announced in a blog post that she’s leaving the MOOC company she co-founded to work at a Alphabet (a.k.a. Coursera’s other founder, Andrew Ng, left the startup several years ago to join the Chinese search engine Baidu. . million people since 2003.” Google) biotech company, Calico.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Or the company will have to start charging for the software. In 2018, Mozilla said it would retire Backpack, its platform for sharing and displaying badges, and would help users move their badges to Badgr, software developed by the tech company Concentric Sky. The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That).

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Education Technology and the 'New' For-Profit Higher Education

Hack Education

Vogel was one of the professors who stood with Trump at the press conference in 2005 announcing the launch of Trump University. ” “It certainly makes a mockery of what Silicon Valley darlings Coursera and Udacity call courses,” Caulfield argued. ” The Wall Street Journal reported in April.