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Trends to watch in 2015: education and technology

Bryan Alexander

Here I’d like to identify trends from 2015 which seem likely to persist or grow over the next year. 2015 had a martyr for textbook costs, but I haven’t seen this inspire any movements towards cheaper texts. Big data and data analytics : interest in this is widespread and has some hefty power behind it.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. The startup was later sold to Valore Education in 2015 , which was in turn acquired by Follett in 2016 , which in turn shut down the Boundless site in 2017. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?). There’s an understanding – even if it’s a disgruntled one – among those in the classroom and those making procurement decisions of what the LMS is for, what it should do, and so on. There’s an existing market there.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Teacher on Paid Leave After Confederate Flag Found Hanging in Classroom.” ” “Of OER and Platforms: Five Years Later” by Lumen Learning’s David Wiley. ” “ Robots and drones take over classrooms,” according to the BBC. Adeptemy , an adaptive learning company, has raised $3.48