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Weekend Reading: Pollen Edition

ProfHacker

There are now an estimated 400-plus DTC startups that have collectively raised some $3 billion in venture capital since 2012." The study has wide-reaching implications for advertising giants like Facebook and Google, which increasingly find themselves under pressure to disclose more about their targeting practices."

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Take Two: Clever’s Newest Effort to Help Teachers Try Before They Buy Edtech

Edsurge

Provisioning apps quickly and securely has been core to Clever’s business since it was founded in 2012. A report published in January suggests that most software licenses purchased go unused. In early 2016, it launched Co-Pilot to give schools free 30-day trials of edtech software built by other companies.

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Planning for the Total Cost of Edtech Initiatives

edWeb.net

Strategic planning for edtech is an endless journey—and not just because of constantly evolving hardware and software. Using CoSN’s blueprint for smart IT decisions as a guideline, the three superintendents explained how to align priorities, and balance choice with cost and outcomes to creative sustainable programs.

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The TeacherCast Ultimate Guide To Podcasting

TeacherCast

They are all coming to your blog or website to learn something and the best way to keep them coming back is to ask them questions, possibly through a Google Form Survey, to get a better sense of topics that you may wish to turn into podcast or blog topics. February: Google for Education. Week 1: Google Docs Tips. Rendezvous.

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Reflections on Open Education and the Path Forward

Iterating Toward Openness

The internet’s early designers were not trying to facilitate the creation of a Google, Facebook, Amazon, WordPress, Wikipedia, or OpenCourseWare. One example of the work we did there was creating the Educommons platform – software that made it easier for universities to run opencourseware projects. Authentic incentives.

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

Hack Education

The work is also supported by companies including Apple, Google and Expedia, as well as education organizations including the CollegeBoard, Teach For America and STEMx.” Google’s Alphabet Inc. Google’s Alphabet Inc. We also see it in many instances of adaptive-learning software. and Facebook Inc.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

“Obama administration guidelines for LGBT student protections under Title IX remain in place, and the student codes at Liberty and Bob Jones Universities appear to violate them,” says Inside Higher Ed. . Saint Francis High School invested $15,000 in the company back in 2012. Luster lost to Chromebooks, apparently.