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Nontraditional but More Collaborative: Edtech Trends for 2019

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As we look ahead to the future in edtech, we see an industry marked by significant change and stubborn challenges. While it’s always risky to make predictions, I believe there were several strong trends from 2018 that suggest the shape of things to come in 2019.

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Top School & District Innovator Awardees 2019

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The Learning Counsel, a leading education research institute and news media hub, announced this year’s National Digital Transition Survey Award winners at its 2019 National Gathering held in Dallas, TX. Four different categories of proficiency were celebrated in the National Digital Transition Survey Awards. Rehumanize.

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What Colleges Are Doing to Fight the 'Contract Cheating' Industry

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This problem has the potential to question our entire industry, or at least put it into question,” says Adel Lelo, a senior principal product manager at Western Governors University. We are letting this industry turn every legitimate educational institution into a diploma mill,” says Bertram Gallant. to combat contract cheating.

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Research to Impact: Four Steps to Build a Successful Edtech Enterprise

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Amid surging demand, bullish investors plowed money into the sector, and edtech capital funding surged 297 percent from $7 billion in 2019 to $20.8 Now, the industry is in a reset. Educators need early insight into the efficacy of the learning tools their schools and districts purchase. billion in 2021.

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Instructure to Sell Bridge for $50M and Exit Corporate Learning Market

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Where Instructure planned to go with Bridge, its learning management system for corporate and enterprise customers, has been an open question for over a year, when the company was still publicly traded. Instructure announced it has reached an agreement to sell Bridge to Learning Technologies Group, a London, U.K.-based

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Your Syllabus to SXSW EDU 2019 (and Where to Find Us!)

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Between the barbeque and baristas, the dive bars and dueling pianos, thousands of educators, along with entrepreneurs, investors, researchers and policymakers across the education industry, will descend on Austin, Texas, during the first week of March for SXSW EDU. Thursday, March 7 11:00 a.m. 12:30 p.m.

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Predictions of Print Textbooks’ Death Remain Greatly Exaggerated

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The newest voices in that choir come from Bill and Melinda Gates, who declared that “ textbooks are becoming obsolete ” in their 2019 annual letter. Even as many traditional textbook providers are transitioning to digital formats, paper and ink have proved stubbornly resilient. The industry has been proven wrong so many times.

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