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MARCH 18, 2020

From digital certificates to learning analytics, here are eight EdTech trends to look forward to in the coming months. Video-assisted Learning. Gone are the days when teachers had to drag TVs into classrooms to let students watch films. Now, nearly every classroom is at least equipped with a screen and projector.

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DECEMBER 1, 2020

To adopt test proctoring software is to enrich an unethical industry. Zoom, for example, was not designed for classroom use (although Stanford University was, interestingly, its first paying customer); it was designed to facilitate remote business meetings. And I should add that it was designed rather poorly for even that.

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DECEMBER 9, 2017

” 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). I mean, one of its founders celebrated.

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DECEMBER 30, 2019

Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. 3D printing, The Economist pronounced in 2012 , was poised to bring about the third industrial revolution. (I

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MAY 13, 2016

Lots of goings-on this week in the loan industry. “ Blackboard Partners with Fishtree for Personalized Learning,” says Campus Technology. ” [Insert Course Signals learning analytics joke here.]. The for-profit higher ed chain Education Management Corporation will lay off some 200 employees.

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JANUARY 26, 2017

Via Techcrunch : “ Blackboard cofounder Michael Chasen takes CEO reins at PrecisionHawk.” ” PrecisionHawk is a drone surveillance company, which I’m sure has nothing in common with the learning management system. Teacher on Paid Leave After Confederate Flag Found Hanging in Classroom.”

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OCTOBER 28, 2016

Testing, Testing… Via the Hechinger Report : “On a classroom-based test for new teachers , black teachers score lower.” Blackboard has acquired Fronteer , a software company that helps make course materials accessible. Via New America : “The Promise and Peril of Predictive Analytics in Higher Education.”

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