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Online Learning's 'Greatest Hits'

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The next big move came when instructional designers, as part of their skillset, turned to digital authoring systems, software introduced to stimulate engagement, encouraging virtual students to interface actively with digital materials, often by tapping at a keyboard or touching the screen as in a video game.

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?HigherEd Year in Review: What We’ve Learned (and Loved) in Our First 365 Days

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went straight to our podcast, which has had a fresh resurgence with the last year of higher education reporting through our newsletter, Next. Discovering MOOCs in 2012 lit a fire under me. Try building a MOOC to meet that challenge—I’d love to read about it! The interview, “ Why U. How can edtech help students be more human?

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US Edtech Funding Already Nears $1 Billion in First Half of 2019

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Last year, Great Hill also put in $110 million in Connexeo , a provider of school administration and payment software. Trilogy Education, which provides software-training bootcamps for universities, was acquired for $750 million by 2U. One example is Great Hill Partners, which invested in Examity in April. million and 2.5

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Rethink Education Re-Ups Commitment to Edtech With $107.5 Million Fund

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But as some disappointed investors have learned last year, the actual market value and performance behind “unicorns” may be as illusory as their nickname. Following Edtech Money (in-depth report on U.S. He’s never been a fan of digital textbooks or MOOCs.) Other EdSurge stories about edtech venture capital.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) It may be the hardware or the operating system (OS), even a web browser or other underlying software, as long as the program code is executed in it. It’s now an LMS too.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

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When I first started working as a tech reporter, I assumed – naively – that venture capitalists were smart people who did thorough research before funding a company. DreamBox Learning (adaptive learning): $130 million. Connexeo (school administration software): $110 million. Vive la MOOC révolution.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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.” “Three months after the former Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner was sentenced to six months in jail for sexual assault, he was released on Friday,” NPR reports. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Inside Higher Ed : “Humans, the Latest MOOC Feature.”