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What Teachers Need to Know about The New Google for Education App Hub

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The new Google for Education App Hub is the topic of our blog post today! Well, folks, it looks like Google has thrown its hat into the ring with their new Education App Hub , and I think they’re onto something big. Let’s dig into what makes Google’s Education App Hub a potential game-changer in the EdTech world.

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Meet the Edtech Grantees of Google’s $25 Million AI Impact Challenge

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Those are among the social issues addressed by 20 non-profit and educational institutions that are getting grants from the Google AI Impact Challenge , announced today at the company’s annual I/O developer conference. along with a handful of nonprofit organizations building education software for teachers, students and parents.

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

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billion, this year’s funding total is the second-highest tally, following 2015 (which saw $1.4 educational technology companies whose primary purpose is to improve outcomes for teachers and learners across K-12 and higher education. PowerSchool, owned by Vista Equity Partners, has spent nearly $1 billion on eight companies since 2015.

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Developing a Research Base to Evaluate Digital Courseware

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Babson Survey , the proportion of academic leaders who report that online learning is critical for long-term institutional growth has grown from 49 percent in 2002 to 71 percent in 2015, and institutions are investing in edtech products to support digital learning. 08 seconds.

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Pursuing Academic Freedom and Data Privacy Is a Balancing Act

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Students for Fair Admissions, which is suing the university for allegedly discriminating against Asian American applicants, will have access to “academic, extracurricular, demographic and other information” from all undergrads who applied to Harvard between the fall 2009 and spring 2015, omitting names and Social Security numbers.

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The Coding Bootcamp Hype Cycle

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Very quickly we were getting amazing outcomes for our students—almost 100 percent placement with companies, great salaries and the most compelling new path into the modern technology workforce. Around early 2015, stories also began to emerge of less-than-savory coding schools popping up around the country. The "Peak".

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. ”) It was certainly the outcome that investors were hoping for Edmodo , which raised $25 million in 2012, boasting that it had 15 million users. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) Remember Edmodo? If so, what are they?