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Top 5 new EdTech tools that you might use in your university

Neo LMS

Robot teachers. The idea of a robot teacher may seem like a too futuristic concept at the moment, but it’s really an ongoing project in many schools and colleges worldwide. Robot teachers are able to work 24/7 without taking a break and don’t need a salary. They are patient and unbiased. Online learning.

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The path to a career could start in middle school

The Hechinger Report

DALLAS — In Levar Dobbins’ eighth grade classroom, a dozen students were learning about workforce trends. A whole bunch of robots,” one boy suggested. Others offer introductory courses in specific careers, like engineering or robotics. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift. More social media platforms,” a girl said.

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The Asian Money Fueling US Edtech Investments

Edsurge

The trend is not unique to Hollywood; other American businesses— from appliance makers to luxury resorts —are similarly entangled with Asian money. Sinovation Ventures , a venture firm founded in 2009 by Google’s former chief in China. Sinovation also funds companies in other technology sectors including robotics and Big Data.)

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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

Hack Education

As I have done for the past six years, I will spend the rest of November and December publishing my review of what I deem the “Top Ed-Tech Trends” of the year. I pick ten trends and themes in order to closely at the recent past, the near-term history of education technology. (Of How do you do that? You gather experts.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

This is part four of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Way back in 2012, I chose “ The Platforming of Education ” as one of my “Top Ed-Tech Trends.” I’d love to provide a link but Andreessen deleted his blog in 2009. ” Re-reading that article now makes me cringe.

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What's on the Horizon (Still, Again, Always) for Ed-Tech

Hack Education

Why are “virtual assistants,” “learning analytics,” “adaptive learning technologies,” and “robotics” distinct from the overarching category of “artificial intelligence”?). “the Internet of Things”) have been on the horizon since 2009. Were they adopted?

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The messy reality of personalized learning

The Hechinger Report

It was the latest big-fix trend in K-12 education, and Gist, a favored daughter of Silicon Valley philanthropists, offered up the nation’s smallest state as a laboratory mouse. The same was true at the affluent, predominantly white Barrington Middle School, which will soon move into a $68 million building fitted with a robotics lab.