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Pros and Cons of Using eLearning Software in Your Classroom

Educational Technology Guy

Technology allows you to teach and learn from any part of the world with Internet access and electricity. All you need is a device and software, like Google Hangouts Meet, Zoom, Join.me, GoToMeeting, or other tools that facilitate studying. Learning Solutions Magazine Of course, specialized online periodicals had to land on the list.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

” In his book, Srnicek identifies five kinds of platforms: advertising platforms (like Google and Facebook), cloud platforms (like Salesforce and Amazon Web Services), industrial platforms (like GE and Siemens), product platforms (like Spotify), and lean platforms (like Uber and AirBnB). Education’s Proto-Platforms.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

DreamBox Learning (adaptive learning): $130 million. DadaABC (English language learning): $100 million. EverFi (“critical skills” training): $251 million. Knewton (adaptive learning): $182.3 Age of Learning (educational apps): $181.5 DreamBox Learning (adaptive learning): $175.6

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The Rough Beasts of Ed-Tech

Hack Education

But my dad ran a little grocery store, and when I’d visit him at work, I’d crouch by the magazine rack and surreptitiously flip my way through as many as possible. After all, the ad said that Sea Monkeys could “swim, play scoot, race and do comical tricks and stunts,” and I imagined that I could train them.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

The Business of Job Training. Via The New York Times : “Early Facebook and Google Employees Form Coalition to Fight What They Built.” Doesn’t seem like any journalists caught this, tho: A couple of things about that group of former FB and Google employees who have founded the Center for Humane Tech: 1. .”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

There’s more MOOC news from Edsurge in the “job training” section below. ” Via Cleveland.com : “National e-school figure to test new approach to online learning here in Ohio.” ” Via Bloomberg : “Inside Google ’s Shadow Workforce.” The Business of Job Training.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” “Schools, Libraries Miss Out on Millions in E-Rate Funds,” according to EdTech Magazine – some $245 million for the 2014 fiscal year. Via San Francisco Magazine : “A Kindergarten Teacher May Be Evicted from Her Mission Apartment. Learn-to-code startup Piper has raised $2.1 Upgrades and Downgrades.