Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2019

In an unusual move intended to shake up how college teaching is done around the world, Carnegie Mellon University today announced that it will give away dozens of the digital-learning software tools it has built over more than a decade—and make their underlying code available for anyone to see and modify. But Kenneth R.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed. Education’s Proto-Platforms. If so, what are they?

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

million (Seed) 2015 Sinovation Ventures Ready4 $8 million (A) 2016 TAL Education, Yongjin Group, ZhenFund Securly $3 million (Seed) 2013 Sinovation Ventures, ZhenFund Swing Education $7.8 tech company has a Chinese analog: for every Amazon there’s an Alibaba; for every Google, a Baidu. “I Or, at the very least, spark similar ideas.

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Hack Education

JUNE 15, 2017

But now “software is eating the world,” as venture capitalist Marc Andreessen wants to us all to believe. This is the story we hear and we tell about computers, about algorithmic systems like adaptive learning, predictive analytics, personalization. But that’s not new. Enhance, not replace.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

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 2013, 3D printer manufacturer MakerBot launched its MakerBot Academy with a goal “to put a MakerBot Desktop 3D Printer in every school in America.” billion by 2025.

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Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

He was an instructor in one of several high-profile Coursera failures back in 2013. “ Apple , Microsoft , Amazon and Google Are Fighting a War for the Classroom,” says Edutechnica , with a look at how many colleges have adopted their competing pseudo-LMSes. ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”).

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

” Google announces it is “Funding 75,000 Udacity scholarships to bridge the digital skills gap.” For Online College Programs, Google Is Kingmaker.” Parla.ai – “No need to spend money on teachers – I’ll help you learn English effectively and for free!” No, actually.

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