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MOOC Pioneer Coursera Tries a New Push: Selling Courseware to Colleges

Edsurge

That means that colleges could use the Coursera software as an alternative to their learning-management system. Besides, he adds, selling courseware is more lucrative than just software. Colleges have tried to offer courses built around MOOC materials before—and it hasn’t always gone well. They need to show a story of growth.”

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Online Learning's 'Greatest Hits'

Edsurge

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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Higher education technology predictions for 2014

Mark Smithers

Some new services and platforms will emerge to cater for different forms of learning, MOOCs will evolve and improve and open badges will be hot. Well I missed out on writing a review for 2013 so I thought I’d get in reasonably early and write some predictions for what might happen in 2014. The MOOC backlash. Introduction.

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School Work and Surveillance

Hack Education

For a long time, arguably the best known anti-cheating technology was the plagiarism detection software TurnItIn. So they turned some of their research on pattern-matching of brainwaves to create a piece of software that would identify patterns in texts. Anti-cheating software isn't just about plagiarism, of course.

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2013 Global Education Conference Kicks Off Today - List of Sessions

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Jerry Blumengarten The 2013 Global Education Conference starts today! Most impressive demonstration of the possibilities of the software and of engaging ways to interpret the conference theme! " -Anonymous “This is a fantastic conference and I plan on using the recordings for my graduate student -professional teachers.

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

Edsurge

In fact, the number of deals has been on a steady downward slope since 2013. 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. billion invested), since EdSurge began tracking U.S.

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The Learning Revolution - 2014 School Leadership Summit - ISTE Unplugged Dates - More!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

We are excited to announce that the keynote sessions from the following conferences can now be watched on YouTube: School Leadership Summit 2013 , Homeschool Conference 2013 , STEMxCon 2013 , Library 2.012 and 2.013 , and the Global Education Conference 2012 and 2013. Tentative dates for Library 2.014. Love it all.