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Jeff Bezos Wants to Go to the Moon. Then, Public Education.

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In a now-famous 1997 interview , he candidly explained why Amazon started out by selling books. Books were simply a stepping stone, the “best first thing” to sell.) In 1994, hardly anyone was buying books on the internet. Bezos, more than any other tech entrepreneur, is known to play the long game, masterfully. But they are.

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How AI Will Save Education

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

Consider the following developments in artificial intelligence: In 2016, the Associated Press began outsourcing its minor-league baseball dispatches to a company called Automated Insights. The last example I will share goes to the heart of instruction. Recently I wrote " What If Your Co-Teacher is a Computer? Can a robot be whimsical?

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Can Entrepreneurs Balance Educational and Financial Returns?

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Perhaps it is because of the myth of the entrepreneur that resounds throughout popular culture: examples like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, who both dropped out of college, and in doing so, seemingly spurned education in order to build major tech companies—and yet now each have education initiatives of their own. Blackboard Inc.,

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As OER Grows Up, Advocates Stress More Than Just Low Cost

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Lang explains how it works: Lang: Faculty have to either adapt an OER resource, so either remixing or adding some of their own content to something that already exists, or they can author a new text. So some examples of that is first our open Spanish textbook, it is customized every semester based on the majors of the students in the course.

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Mapping the universe of edtech that connects

eSchool News

When I first joined the Christensen Institute over five years ago we were knee-deep in studying the fast-growing market of tools designed to support blended learning environments. For example, teachers can find tools that bring industry experts into their classrooms or diversify students’ access to peers and near peers beyond their school.

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How to Do Adaptive Learning Right

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Examples abound in attempts to use new technologies to enhance (if not “transform”, or even “disrupt”) education. But optimizing a flawed model of education is not in the best interests of our students, and from a learning outcomes perspective may make things worse than they already are. Tune too easy? Try a harder piece.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

At the time, I wrote about the importance of APIs; the issues surrounding data security and privacy; the appeal of platforms for users and businesses; and the education and tech companies who were well-positioned (or at least wanting) to become education platforms. The company has raised some $77.5