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Behind Closed Doors: Edtech Entrepreneurs’ Biggest Challenges in 2018

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Earlier this month in New York City, the AT&T Aspire Accelerator, AT&T’s program that finds, develops, and invests in promising edtech companies from around the world, hosted an afternoon of mock board meetings with its 2018 cohort. The same principle applies to edtech companies. Companies all want more eyeballs and users.

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Digitizing Curriculum Development: Think Efficiency

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Standards Several – Vendors produce tools that correspond with the Competencies and Academic Standards Exchange (CASE) , specifications that define how systems exchange and manage information about learning standards and/or competencies in a digitally-referenceable way (goodbye PDFs!). Do vendors use CASE?

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From Silos to Sharing: Why Are Open Educational Resources Still So Hard to Find?

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Department of Education spearheaded the #GoOpen movement, a collection of efforts to spur educators, publishers and technologists to make OER more available and easily accessible. Several software companies have their own repositories, such as Microsoft’s Docs.com, Schoology’s public resources, Canvas Commons, and more.

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REINVENTING.SCHOOL Thursday with Howard Blumenthal - "What About My Job at School?" #reinventingschool #learningrevolution

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

To watch the live show at 4:00 pm US-EDT, or to access the recordings afterward, please go to [link] (or [link] ). As Assistant Secretary, she led the federal effort to promote the creation of voluntary state and national academic standards. She was responsible for the Office of Educational Research and Improvement in the U.S.

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The End of the Promise of Personalized Learning?

EdNews Daily

The worrisome sections are (highlighted for illustrating points in this article): “(A) PROHIBITION.—Except This caveat is meaningless to most commercial interests like companies that take advertising for something like soft drinks but will be very important in the education field for learning resources. Worrisome Sections.

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What’s New

techlearning

Combined, Faria and Rubicon will serve over 10,000 schools in 130 countries with curriculum support for over 600 academic standards. The resources in the Professional Learning Center can be accessed at any time on any device and feature a mass-enrollment option for easy implementation for principals and teachers.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “George Mason’s President Says Some Donor Agreements Fell ‘Short’ of Academic Standards.” “ Are Edtech Companies Doing Enough to Protect Student Privacy?

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