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8 EdTech Trends to Watch Out for This 2020

Ask a Tech Teacher

Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Wally Clipper, has a great run-down on 8 trends you’ll want to watch in 2020: 8 EdTech Trends to Watch Out for This 2020. Additionally, Chron reports that some schools have even replaced the usual blackboard and whiteboard with smartboards this year. Artificial Intelligence.

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Triumphs and Troubles in Online Learning Abroad

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Branded eventually as Blackboard, it was the market leader in the U.S. Poor Internet Access Cripples Online Higher Ed When the pandemic careened across the globe in spring 2020, U.S. and Canada for some time, and even today the company is in second place, with DTL Brightspace, a Canadian firm, close behind.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Brown University joins edX. “ Y Combinator MOOC for Tech Startups Attracts Thousands of Views,” says Campus Technology. Not sure why this is called a MOOC. Happy 20th anniversary to Blackboard. The Business of Job Training.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

In 2013, on the heels of “the Year of the MOOC,” Barber released a report titled “An Avalanche is Coming,” calling for the “unbundling” of higher education. MOOCs are, no surprise, their own entry on this long list of awfulness. People were relieved that there was a new alternative to Blackboard. Uber for Education". “We

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