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Duolingo IPO Shows Investors Think Edtech Is Still Growing.

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As a string of online-education companies have gone public, including Chegg, Coursera, Kahoot and others, it seems that investors have decided that there’s enough public interest in digital learning, and they want in. And it turns out that online language learning is the fastest-growing market segment within the edtech industry.

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Coursera’s Rick Levin On the Evolution of MOOCs and Microcredentials

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Coursera sits somewhat awkwardly on the border between traditional higher education and the Silicon Valley-forces working to disrupt it. EdSurge: I’ve heard folks at Coursera refer to your courses and microcredential programs as “products.” It has been five year since Coursera launched its first MOOCs. How’s that going?

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How to push past limiting beliefs to uncover what’s truly possible in your teaching

The Cornerstone for Teachers

We may develop thoughts and assumptions that prevent us from cultivating and exercising full equity leadership. . Ask yourself, “Am I exercising curiosity or I am stubborn and stuck? I ask them questions, paraphrase their answers, guide them through thought exercises, and share any patterns I notice. I can’t teach these kids.

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How to push past limiting beliefs to uncover what’s truly possible in your teaching

The Cornerstone for Teachers

We may develop thoughts and assumptions that prevent us from cultivating and exercising full equity leadership. . Ask yourself, “Am I exercising curiosity or I am stubborn and stuck? I ask them questions, paraphrase their answers, guide them through thought exercises, and share any patterns I notice. I can’t teach these kids.

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The Flip Side of Abysmal MOOC Completion Rates? Discovering the Most Tenacious Learners

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verified certificates from Coursera and completed 11 social entrepreneurship courses from +Acumen. Many tech companies already use these kinds of selections when they evaluate whether to hire someone based on their Github repositories or the coding exercises they can complete. Between 2014 and 2016 Usman earned 21.

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The Road to Disastrous Educational Businesses Is Paved With Good Intentions

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This troubling tendency to double down on one’s own preconceptions reflects the millions in other people’s money spent by [Edison Schools founder Chris] Whittle to design the “optimal” K–12 school model—which magically produced exactly the model that Whittle thought made the most sense before the expensive masturbatory exercise started.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 9 Edition)

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Tagged on: March 3, 2017 Blended Learning for Quality Higher Education: Selected Case Studies on Implementation from Asia-Pacific | UNESCO Bangkok → A new report presents a framework and self-assessment tool developed to drive, sustain, and scale up blended learning. He gave a speech and devoted 150 words to education and choice.

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