The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

The Rise of the Low-Cost Tablet & the Promise It May Hold for Learning BYOD: Does It Solve or Does It Worsen K-12 Tech Woes? Launches Rated JPG reports that beloved toy-maker LEGO is building its own social network. E-book provider Overdrive reports that e-book checkouts from libraries are up over 200% from last year.

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Knewton Pearson E-rate Education 43

Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2018

Congratulations, STEM folks and learn-to-code evangelists, for being featured in President Trump’s list of his 2017 accomplishments. Via Techcrunch : “ URB-E ’s launching a scooter sharing network at college campuses and hotels.” The English-language-learning company has raised $608 million total.

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Education Company Blackboard Kaplan 43

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

“To Save Students Money, Colleges May Force a Switch to E-Textbooks,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reported in 2010. The story examined a proposed practice: “Colleges require students to pay a course-materials fee, which would be used to buy e-books for all of them (whatever text the professor recommends, just as in the old model).”

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