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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. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. In 2011, Ning was acquired by “lifestyle” site Glam Media for around $150 million. It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security.

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To Better Serve Adult Learners, Eliminate the Barriers Between Work and Learning

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peaked in 2011 and is currently declining. At Northeastern, for example, we’ve partnered with both Google and IBM to recognize Google’s IT Support Professional Certificate and IBM’s digital badges for academic credit in our degree programs for working adults. According to some measures , adult higher ed enrollment in the U.S.

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Fewer Deals, More Money: U.S. Edtech Funding Rebounds With $1.2 Billion in 2017

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edtech investments in 2011. Yet at 126 deals, the number of fundraises in 2017 is also at its lowest since 2011. MOOC companies typically account for the bump in the “Post-Secondary” category, but aside from Coursera’s $64 million Series D round, few other companies focused in higher education scored a large deal.

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Week of August 22nd, 2011 - Live and Interactive Webinars in Blackboard Collaborate

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Meet the ATLAST Explore participants and start networking using Google+. Session will also include a brief how-to on Google+ and a brainstorming activity of ways to implement Google+ with students. In general, references management software is expensive.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Gotta keep hyping that MOOC thing. Via Edsurge : “ MOOCs Are No Longer Massive. ” Via Class Central : “Class Central’s Top 50 MOOCs of All Time (2018 edition).” And They Serve Different Audiences Than First Imagined.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Tune into the Contrafabulists podcast this weekend, when Kin Lane and I will discuss the response (or lack thereof) from the tech industry, including Cloudflare , Spotify , Squarespace , GoDaddy , Google , the EFF , and others. Via Edsurge : “Software Helps Instructors Stop Mangling Hard-to-Pronounce Student Names.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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“The Snooki bill” is a response to $32,000 that the Jersey Shore star received from Rutgers in 2011. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ Coursera Removes Biometric Identity Verification Using Keystroke Matching,” Class Central reports. ” Bye, Mercator. From the HR Department.