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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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What’s more, for each of these choices, there are additional decisions about which media to use (video, audio, hands-on), whether to give concrete examples, and more. Newkirk calls his company Acuitus , in hopes of encouraging sharpness of thought. For students, this is a discouraging engagement, Lepper says.

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The Stories We Were Told about Education Technology (2018)

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And yet the education/technology industry (press) kept up with its rosy repetition that social equality is surely its priority, a product feature even – that VR, for example, a technology it has for so long promised is “ on the horizon ,” is poised to help everyone, particularly teachers and students, become more empathetic.

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Online Learning's 'Greatest Hits'

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Neck and neck for the top spot in the LMS academic vendor race are Blackboard—the early entry and once-dominant player—and coming-up quickly from behind, the relatively new contender, Canvas, each serving about 6.5 million students. The LMS market today is valued at $9.2 The term MOOC was coined by others in 2008.)

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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At the time, I wrote about the importance of APIs; the issues surrounding data security and privacy; the appeal of platforms for users and businesses; and the education and tech companies who were well-positioned (or at least wanting) to become education platforms. The company has raised some $77.5 Not sure anyone else did.)

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2016 Global Education Conference Starts Sunday - Important Information!

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You don’t need to be an expert in the Blackboard Collaborate platform to help (we give you training and then live help at the time), but it makes a HUGE different to presenters to have a moderator helper in their session rooms, and we try to make sure there is one for every session! Sears, M.A.,

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Memory Machines: Learning, Knowing, and Technological Change

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Take, for example, the founding editor of the technology trade magazine Wired , Kevin Kelly. There often are competing claims as to who invented a technology and when, for example, and there are early prototypes that may or may not “count.” Our Internet service providers today are likely telephone and TV companies.

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The Business of Ed-Tech: 2017 So Far

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And indeed, according to my calculations too, the amount of money invested in education technology companies is up from this time last year and up from this time in 2015 as well. So far this year, there have been 95 investments in ed-tech companies, totaling $1.8 And yes, I do include student loan companies here.