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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. to announce the winners of the “ Reimagining the Higher Education Ecosystem ,” or EDU2030, challenge.

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The Past Decade Forecasts a New Wave of Economic Opportunity in Education

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And in this environment, the education industry sees an unprecedented transformation due in part to a new industrial revolution. During the past decade, we have seen only the beginning of changes in the education industry. All of this creates an industry ripe for further disruption on a global scale.

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The Still-Evolving Future of University Credentials

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And major companies and industry groups are increasingly getting into the credentialing game, exemplified by firms such as IBM and Google. And the European Union, numerous individual countries, and various NGOs – as well as industry groups and educational leaders in the U.S. – are hard at work on standards frameworks.

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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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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via Inside Higher Ed : “Federal task force releases ”roadmap“ for alternative federal system for apprenticeships , with calls for more industry involvement and criticism of higher education. “ Google ’s got our kids,” says The Outline. But questions remain about how the new system would work.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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This is so important to consider, as Tufekci noted on Twitter, in light of Google’s domination of the K–12 computing market.). Edtech Digest’s Victor Rivero interviews Tory Patteron , a partner at Owl Ventures on how the firm is “Betting 185 Million Dollars on EdTech.” Upgrades and Downgrades.

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Via Google’s blog : “ Howard University opens a new campus at the Googleplex.” ” It’s a three-month summer program with classes taught by Google engineers and Howard faculty. Via The Verge : “ Google built a new app so your kids can have a Google account, too.”