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The Past Decade Forecasts a New Wave of Economic Opportunity in Education

Edsurge

Since 2018, she has been a partner at Learn Capital, a venture capital fund focused on the global education sector. As education researcher Andreas Schleicher noted , “The world economy no longer pays you for what you know; Google knows everything … the world economy pays you for what you can do with what you know.”

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How Is Cloud Computing Revolutionizing the Education Industry?

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Fast forward to 2018, how many schools in the world can actually say that they executed this? Many renowned names in the game, such as Blackboard and Google, are now offering their own cloud-based virtual classroom suites. Still, educational institutions and their staff are decidedly more open-minded from this point of view nowadays.

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‘Talent’ Has Become the New Theme Uniting Education and Employment

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On the talent-acquisition side of the equation, demand—especially in the technology field–is so great that firms such as IBM , Google , Microsoft , Hubspot and a host of others are providing their own public-facing education and credentials.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

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This is the second part of my much-abbreviated look at the stories that were told about education technology in 2018 – and in this case, the people who funded the storytellers. The Biggest Investments of 2018. Connexeo (school administration software): $110 million. Coursera (online education): $210.1

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Hack Education Weekly News

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From the Coursera blog : “Announcing ‘ AI for Everyone ’: a new course from deeplearning.ai on Coursera.” is the new company of Andrew Ng , Coursera’s co-founder.) h/t @CarlySidey pic.twitter.com/BL8lDVLMA4 — Jules Suzdaltsev (@jules_su) November 12, 2018. ” (deeplearning.ai

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Hack Education Weekly News

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… The state has until September 1, 2018 ‘to fully implement its program for basic education’ and it must have a plan for funding and implementing ‘by the final adjournment of the 2017 legislative session,’ the court said in a ruling written by Chief Justice Barbara Madsen.” Raise $146.1 A Wi-Fi system.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” IHE blogger Joshua Kim offers “25 Million Reasons Why LinkedIn / Microsoft Will Buy Coursera.” ” From the Google blog : “ Google Science Fair 2018 : Resources for educators to get ideas flowing.” ” Also from the Google blog : “More tools for homeschoolers.”