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Here Are the 10 Michelson Runway Startups Vying For Future Funders

Edsurge

Education technology accelerator programs are often studded with robotic kits or educational games. Founded in 2009, the company gathers and shares data from student transcripts and uses predictive modeling to “correlate this transcript data to future performance,” the company describes. based startup is raising $300,000 by July 2018.

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EDUCAUSE 2015: my sessions and some observations

Bryan Alexander

Tuesday morning was my preconference seminar on “Building an Emerging Technology and Futures Capacity in Your Organization” The goal here wasn’t to present on future trends for education and technology, but rather to help campus information professionals figure out how to better think about the future themselves.

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Announcing Amazing Keynote and Distinguished Speakers for the School Leadership Summit

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

His works focus on the implications of globalization and technology on education. He is a recipient of the Early Career Award from the American Educational Research Association and was named one of the 2012 10 most influential people in educational technology by the Tech & Learn Magazine. Zhao was born in China’s Sichuan Province.