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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

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Kaltura (video) – $166.1 Knewton ( mind-reading robo tutor in the sky ) – $157.25 One could look at companies that made major shuffles in the executive boardrooms: a new CEO at Coursera , the departure of Coursera’s chief product officer , a new CEO at Knewton , the departure of Altschool’s COO , for instance.

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Could Remixing Old MOOCs Give New Life to Free Online Education?

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A search in LabXchange would one day pull up a list of videos, text descriptions, infographics and other materials. From that list of results, he says, you might pick three videos and an infographic, and then add a case study focusing on a really moving human story. And the platform lets you add your own videos or texts as well.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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It was probably Sal Khan’s 2011 TED Talk “Let’s Use Video to Reinvent Education” and the flurry of media he received over the course of the following year or so that introduced the idea of the “flipped classroom” to most people. Why are video-taped lectures so “revolutionary” if lectures themselves are supposedly not? (As

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