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Online Gaming Strategy Sparks Idea for Ed-Tech Startup Business

Ed Tech from the Ground Up

My company had contracts with the biggest publishing houses in the world, like Pearson and McGraw Hill. Three major life events occurred for me in 2007 that sparked my idea to start an ed-tech company: The Internet decimated the textbook industry and I realized I needed to reinvent my business.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

” In his book, Srnicek identifies five kinds of platforms: advertising platforms (like Google and Facebook), cloud platforms (like Salesforce and Amazon Web Services), industrial platforms (like GE and Siemens), product platforms (like Spotify), and lean platforms (like Uber and AirBnB). Pearson is Not a Platform.

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Characteristics of The 21st Century Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Google’s AI literacy resource can help teachers learn more about how to effectively make the best of artificial intelligence technologies in their educational practice. Pearson, P. This knowledge helps in preparing students for a future where AI will be a significant part of many industries and professions. Retrieved from [link].

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Funding School Services in the Midst of Multiple Crises

edWeb.net

With a 25+ career in education, Arati has used her curriculum design skills to create unique learning experiences in education and nonprofit sectors at Pearson, EdSurge and Silicon Valley Education Foundation. She has also leveraged these skills to create employee onboarding and training programs at Apple, Facebook, Google and Uber.

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Of OER and Platforms: Five Years Later

Iterating Toward Openness

We think platforms like Pearson’s MyLab and Cengage’s MindTap are the enemy. You can argue that it might have made a difference in 2007, but it won’t in 2017.). Much of the OER movement has a bad attitude about platforms. They don’t. No 5Rs and no open pedagogy. ”

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Of OER and Platforms: Five Years Later

Edsurge

Those of us (first person inclusive pronoun) who are madly in love with OER imagine that—like us—other faculty want to spend time searching for OER on Google and in other collections, locating small pieces of content, and bringing these dozens or hundreds of pieces together to create a cohesive learning experience for students. They don’t.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” The Google Memo. Via Motherboard : “ Google Employee’s Anti-Diversity Manifesto Goes ‘Internally Viral’ ” Via Wired : “Internal Messages Show Some Googlers Supported Fired Engineer’s Manifesto.” “​ Pearson to Lay Off 3,000 More Employees,” says Edsurge.