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Year in Review: Our Top Edtech Business Stories of 2018

Edsurge

And we’re filing stories that capture the essence of the edtech industry in 2018. 2018’s Top 10 Countdown: Business Edition. A Clever Way to Measure How Students Actually Use Edtech (and Whether It Works). What Happens to Student Data Privacy When Chinese Firms Acquire US Edtech Companies?

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Mindful Tracking Cookie Policies Improve K—12 Data Security

EdTech Magazine

Mindful Tracking Cookie Policies Improve K—12 Data Security. Wed, 09/12/2018 - 12:18. Current web browsing policies in K–12 schools may be allowing third parties to collect and sell student data , creating a need for schools to update and maintain safe internet use protocols. eli.zimmerman_9856.

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States bet big on career education, but struggle to show it works

The Hechinger Report

As college costs soar and demand for skilled labor rises, programs that prepare students for well-paid work are gaining popularity. In 2018, Congress increased annual funding for CTE, which now exceeds $1.4 About 85 percent of high school graduates in 2019 had taken at least one course in career and technical education, or CTE.

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SIIA, a Pioneering Convenor for the Edtech Industry, Scraps Its Conferences

Edsurge

The conferences were the most publicly visible part of SIIA’s education programming, attracting executives from big textbook publishers along with their peers from major technology companies with growing education footprints, including Apple and Microsoft. Panels and keynotes covered the latest industry trends.

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T&L’S ISTE 2018 BEST OF SHOW AWARDS WINNERS

techlearning

For the fifth year, Tech & Learning presents its awards program that honors great products at ISTE 2018. For the fifth year, Tech & Learning presents its awards program that honors great products at ISTE 2018. With Pagescan built into the backend, Filter’s blacklisted sites are updated daily before students know they exist.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Here’s Where CEO Larry Berger Says It’s Going in 2018.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “How Textbook Rentals Undercut Students.” We talk *teaching machines* with @audreywatters [link] — Jennifer Berkshire (@BisforBerkshire) June 5, 2018. Microsoft has acquired GitHub. million total.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Indeed, Edutechnica, which also tracks LMS data, responds with their own numbers and says that Blackboard still has about two hundred more installations than Canvas and about a million more students using the software. “ Microsoft Hopes to Revive Its Education Tablet Efforts With the New $399 Surface Go,” says Edsurge.