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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

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In the next few days, thousands of edtech entrepreneurs, investors, educators and policymakers will flood a hotel in San Diego to attend the Mecca of Education Innovation Optimism known as ASU GSV. So now is the perfect time to reflect on the state of edtech. A small but mighty movement was building – and it needed time to grow.

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Campus Edtech Has Shifted Focus From Tech to Ed

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But by 2010, LMS selections were increasingly influenced by faculty input. Educators can now customize their learning environments in ways that we could only dream of (and beg for) in 2010. It is this second shift—the move to data—that will define the shift in edtech over the next decade. And it showed.

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Nontraditional but More Collaborative: Edtech Trends for 2019

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As we look ahead to the future in edtech, we see an industry marked by significant change and stubborn challenges. 2018: A Lesson Review One frustration frequently expressed by Top Hat customers has to do with a lack of coordination among edtech solutions.

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Beware Edtech’s Equivalent of the Flashlight App

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In June 2010, the iPhone 4—the first ever iPhone to have an LED flash—was released. This shift is happening in education technology as well, notably with the learning management system (LMS). Almost every college uses an LMS for core tasks such as class announcements, file-sharing, assignments and grading.

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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

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My bet is that by 2040, our children will look back on this period between 2015 and 2030 in education technology much the same way internet historians look to the period 1995 to 2010 as the birth of the commercial web. In 2002, our team at Microsoft Education created an LMS for a world where every teacher and student had a tablet computer.

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Can Entrepreneurs Balance Educational and Financial Returns?

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While the emergence of “edtech” and the growing tide of investment towards this industry has led to a seemingly endless proliferation of new startups claiming to be in service of education, the perception of many educators, including some of my professors at Penn, is often one of skepticism. Blackboard Inc.,

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Tips and Scoops from ASU GSV That You Won’t Find on the Agenda

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It’s become known as the edtech industry’s rendezvous for investors and bankers—although it wasn’t always this way. “It Here’s how the attendee demographics have grown from 2010 to 2018. Previously, he co-founded Rocketship Education, a charter school network based in California, and later went to start his own edtech company, Zeal.

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