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US Edtech Investments Peak Again With $1.45 Billion Raised in 2018

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Source: EdSurge Higher Education & Post-Secondary Post-secondary tools altogether saw a notable bump in funding. Leading the pack were CampusLogic ($55 million round in 2018) and Commonbond ($50 million), whose tools focus on supporting students and higher-ed institutions with financial aid services and loans. The Bellevue, Wash.-based

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What Happens When Ed-Tech Forgets? Some Thoughts on Rehabilitating Reputations

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But I also mean any number of people in education and education technology, who've not only screwed up the tools and practices of pandemic teaching and learning today, but who have a rather long history of bad if not dangerous ideas and decisions. Plagiarism detection software originated at universities. Unfathomable. Impenetrable.

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More on the Cost Trap and Inclusive Access

Iterating Toward Openness

What do you think the whole MOOC thing George Siemens and I and others was about? In 2006 I described and recommended the community-based model to support sustainable OER-based pedagogy. Is it the software we’ve created to simplify the process of integrating OER into any LMS via the open standards LTI and Common Cartridge?

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A Dictionary For 21st Century Teachers: Learning Models & Technology

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It is similar to place-based education and project-based learning as a teaching tool. ”( Holmes & Gardner 2006 ). (7). Stated simply, a flipped classroom is one where students are introduced to content at home through digital tools (usually video), and then practice it at school under the guidance of a teacher.