Edsurge

AUGUST 25, 2019

We invested in Twitter when it was private; in Dropbox, Spotify, Lyft, you know, all-important companies that are in the education-talent space. We had this as a thesis 10 years ago but it still amazes me: In 2007, 92 percent of all venture capital was in the United States, mostly in Silicon Valley.

Industry 87

Industry EdTech Company Chegg 87

Learning with 'e's

APRIL 16, 2015

As for the title Reverend, I was given that nickname by Chip German (then CIO of University of Mary Washington) back in 2006 or 2007. You can see it for yourself at Twitter hashtag #ds106. I am not a fan of the MOOC as they''re sold by Coursera, Udacity, and the like. The rest is the underground history of the web.

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MOOC LMS VLE EdTech 28

Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

According to the latest jobs report , unemployment in the US is at 4.6%, the lowest since 2007. ” The technology revolution has delivered Google searches, Facebook friends, iPhone apps, Twitter rants and shopping for almost anything on Amazon, all in the past decade and a half. What it hasn’t delivered are many jobs.

Technology 85

Technology Education Microsoft Industry 85

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

It is the instructional designer and tenured professor’s signal — “to the barricades!” — and everyone snipes at the other side from the Twitter trenches for a week, until there’s an unspoken truce that lasts until the next “ban laptops” op-ed gets published. A “ban laptops” op-ed may be the greatest piece of ed-tech clickbait ever devised.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145