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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

Edsurge

This year’s 1 3th edition will swamp San Diego’s waterfront for four days and feature 1,000 speakers, including Thomas Friedman and Margaret Atwood, plus the buzziest for-profit companies in our industry. based education and workforce technology companies, together amounting to more than $150 billion in market capitalization.

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

Hack Education

But I want to call out Proctorio in particular in this talk because this company has demonstrated it has no business in schools; its products have no business in classrooms. A critic of the company, Linkletter posted links to unlisted YouTube videos — that is, publicly available information — on Twitter. What kind of leader does that?

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The Makings (and Misgivings) of a Statewide Effort to Personalize Learning in Massachusetts

Edsurge

Moodle, Schoology, Blackboard and Summit round out the top five.) It implemented a 1:1 device-to-student model in its middle schools in 2009, and expanded that to high schools in 2013. The idea that MAPLE exists to help LearnLaunch-affiliated companies sell products to schools “couldn’t be further from the truth,” says Klau.

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Netflix’s founder saves the day for one education software startup

The Hechinger Report

The companies just didn’t look at the world that way. This was 2009. So we searched for around six months and then we found this company called DreamBox that was doing a math program the right way. At this point, Ben Slivka bowed out of the company he had created. “It This company would have died.

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More colleges and universities outsource services to for-profit companies

The Hechinger Report

What students won’t see in the promotional materials or when they register, however, is that the programs are being managed by a private, for-profit company called Noodle that is being paid $12,000 to $22,000 per month , per program, plus $88 per credit hour, per student, according to a list of fees disclosed by Noodle.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

At the time, I wrote about the importance of APIs; the issues surrounding data security and privacy; the appeal of platforms for users and businesses; and the education and tech companies who were well-positioned (or at least wanting) to become education platforms. The company has raised some $77.5 Not sure anyone else did.)

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Global Collaboration Week Begins - Find a Project and Connect!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Learning2gether is a participant-driven professional development series that has produced over 420 podcasts since its inception in 2009. DIRECTIONS: We will use Blackboard collaborate to explore the digital resources. Kimm will share resources and show participants how to join a community of educators ready to take action. Who are we?