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In Announcing Winners of Higher Ed Challenge, Ed Dept Looks Ahead to 2030

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Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology held its first major event in nearly two years on Thursday, and the main takeaway is that the office is busy planning for the future—2030, to be exact. Once employees determine their degree path, they can begin taking online courses paid for by JetBlue.

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Interplay Raises $18M to Build a Lynda.com for Essential Skilled Trades

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There’s been a lot of great edtech serving the knowledge worker, such as tools like Pluralsight. The company dates back to 2010, when it developed computer-based training simulations and courses for vocational programs serving the energy industry. That effort will entail doubling its headcount to 120 to grow its course catalog.

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How to pave the way for innovation in the classroom

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Of course, just having a brain does not lead directly to innovative ideas, but it’s definitely a starting point. No matter if they just joined the educational system or they attend your course as experienced college students, their main characteristic is to ask questions. How much edtech will be in that classroom?

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The Winners and Filmstrips of An (Almost) Decade in Education Technology

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But today, edtech is commonly understood to mean digital technology. So with these guidelines in mind, I’ve chosen six areas where edtech has made an impact this decade: Learning Management Systems. In fact, I think some of the biggest edtech trends have been rather. The Filmstrips of Edtech Like a filmstrip.

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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

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My bet is that by 2040, our children will look back on this period between 2015 and 2030 in education technology much the same way internet historians look to the period 1995 to 2010 as the birth of the commercial web. More than 80 percent of the edtech startups created in the past five years will not survive through 2020.

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Education Looks Eastward: Snapshots from Beijing's Global Education Technology Summit

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And government leaders have been pushing entrepreneurship, coding and artificial intelligence, setting a goal of leading the world in AI by 2030. The conference was organized by JMDedu, a publication covering edtech in China. So what's the latest in edtech in this alternate internet universe?

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The Still-Evolving Future of University Credentials

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Quarter after quarter, the results of a growing roster of publicly traded edtech companies—including Udemy, Coursera, 2U, and Duolingo, for example —symbolizes the market demand for lifelong learning and upskilling. According to a new national survey of C-suite executives that we recently conducted, 70 percent said that U.S.

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