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Online Learning's 'Greatest Hits'

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The next big move came when instructional designers, as part of their skillset, turned to digital authoring systems, software introduced to stimulate engagement, encouraging virtual students to interface actively with digital materials, often by tapping at a keyboard or touching the screen as in a video game.

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'The Brave Little Surveillance Bear' and Other Stories We Tell About Robots Raising Children

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But now “software is eating the world,” as venture capitalist Marc Andreessen wants to us all to believe. The robot, or rather a seemingly living automaton in “The Sandman,” veers towards “das unheimlich.” Maybe they’ll change how we think about robots. We will be raised by robots.

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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 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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The Asian Money Fueling US Edtech Investments

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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 Sinovation also funds companies in other technology sectors including robotics and Big Data.) million (A) 2016 Sinovation Ventures Volley Labs $2.3

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Parla.ai – “No need to spend money on teachers – I’ll help you learn English effectively and for free!” “This Machine Learning-Powered Software Teaches Kids To Be Better Writers,” Fast Company claims. ” Exclusive!

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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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. Instead, they’ve re-branded as job training sites.