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Millennials: The Straw That Will Stir Higher Education’s Next Disruption

EdNews Daily

To match the changing, unpredictable nature of today’s economy and digital landscape, these programs should aim for flexibility and innovative paradigms. One example of this is the newest trend of “ digital badges.” In 2015, it was named the No. 1 university-based business incubator in North America by UBI Global.

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What Education Technology Could Look Like Over the Next Five Years

MindShift

The NMC Horizon 2015 K-12 report offers a snapshot of where ed tech stands now and where it is likely to go in the next five years, according to 56 education and technology experts from 22 countries. Adaptive Learning: Adaptive learning refers to software that adjusts to students’ learning needs as they use the product.

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How Do You Patent an Edtech Idea, Anyway?

Edsurge

Our lawyer was very honest with us about how volatile intellectual property is, especially in the software space. The application was officially filed in December 2015 and wasn’t published for consideration until June 2016. Who Owns Digital Badges? We made sure to clarify, describe and define what our tool actually did.

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Is the college degree outdated?

The Hechinger Report

That’s what Coletta Teske found in 2015 when, after taking three years off in a decades-long career as a technical writer, she couldn’t find work. Never mind that she had a college degree and had written software manuals, even books. Credly creates digital badges and stores information about the competencies they represent.

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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. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. 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.

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'Robots Are Coming For Your Jobs'

Hack Education

Both had been acquired by for-profit college companies, a convenient target – no surprise – for entrepreneurial blame at the bootcamps’ failures: Dev Bootcamp was bought in 2014 by Kaplan Inc and Iron Yard was acquired in 2015 by the Apollo Education Group, the parent company of the University of Phoenix. ” (Ha.