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Pearson’s Former Product Chief Reflects on the 4 Megatrends Shaping Global Education

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You might be interested to find that teaching, health and hospitality services, and food preparation top the list of critical professions in 2030—along with the more obvious ones like software engineering, data science, and cyber security. But only if it can redefine its underlying value proposition. Which brings me to.

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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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“Publishers Wiley , Cengage , Pearson and McGraw-Hill Education have won a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against a seller of fake textbooks ,” Inside Higher Ed reports. As The Financial Times puts it , “EdTech fails to pay, again.” Credly has acquired Pearson ’s badge platform, Acclaim.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via EdScoop : “Two edtech champions to join White House offices as fellows.” ” Getting Smart’s Tom Vander Ark on a new report from Pearson : “ The Future of Skills : Employment in 2030.” Department of Education Awards $253 Million in Grants to Expand Charter Schools.”