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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. In 2011, Ning was acquired by “lifestyle” site Glam Media for around $150 million. In 2011, the Mozilla Foundation unveiled its “Open Badges Project,” “an effort to make it easy to issue and share digital learning badges across the web.”

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Week of January 24, 2011 - Live, Interactive, and Free Webinars in Elluminate

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Globalization requires students to be academically prepared for a vastly different workplace to achieve success in a knowledge-based economy. How do you create and build your own personal reputation in an authentic way? How do you find work or passion-based opportunities outside of the traditional classroom?

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Apple’s Longtime Education VP Shares Frustrations With Slow Pace of Change

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And we've seen test scores go from 29 percent to 68 percent in one semester when you can deliver the student the exact learning environment that they need to overcome the gap in their knowledge base. We saw a big push by schools back in 2010 and 2011 to adopt iPads on a large scale. They had no idea what to do with them.