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Overcome, Learn, and Excel at Engage 2021 on February4

The CoolCatTeacher

Join me and other education innovators on February 4, 2021 From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Join me and other education leaders at the upcoming online conference Engage 2021 sponsored by Kognity. This post is sponsored by Kognity , sponsor of Engage 2021. Engage 2021 Topics.

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A Decade of MOOCs: A Review of Stats and Trends for Large-Scale Online Courses in 2021

Edsurge

In 2021, two of the biggest MOOC providers had an “exit” event. Coursera went public , while edX was acquired by the public company 2U for $800 million and lost its non-profit status. The company is expected to bring in more than $400 million in revenue in 2021. At the time of writing, the company is valued at about $1.6

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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

Edsurge

This year’s 1 3th edition will swamp San Diego’s waterfront for four days and feature 1,000 speakers, including Thomas Friedman and Margaret Atwood, plus the buzziest for-profit companies in our industry. based education and workforce technology companies, together amounting to more than $150 billion in market capitalization.

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EdTech Company ChalkTalk Earns Funding to Help Shape The Future of Teaching

eSchool News

Unlike fully self-paced competitors that give students practice videos and content snippets for individual consumption, ChalkTalk generates personalized lesson plans and actionable teaching materials for teacher-led instruction—whether that teaching takes place in-person or remotely over a web-conferencing platform such as Microsoft Teams or Zoom.

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Facebook Seems to Be Adding Video-Course Features. For Edtech, That Raises Old Fears.

Edsurge

A consultant recently noticed a company announcement about the features in the U.K. It aims to make it easier to instruct and discover a class on Facebook pic.twitter.com/L0BvBuTXkM — Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra) January 21, 2021. The service is an extension of the company’s paid live events feature.

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New ManagedMethods Report Reveals 30% of K-12 School Districts Lack Cloud Application Security

eSchool News

November 16, 2021— ManagedMethods , the leading Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 cybersecurity, student safety, and compliance platform for education, today announced new research that found gaps in the cybersecurity strategies of district administrators when protecting their cloud collaboration and storage applications.

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6 Manageable ways to participate in PD this summer

Neo LMS

In July, the Changemaker 2021 conference will be taking place. There are also events from edtech companies like Flipgrid or WeVideo happening this summer with sessions presented by educators. In addition, the Microsoft Educator Center has many courses available on a variety of topics and different skill levels. PLNs and PLCs.

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