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Self-Paced E-Learning Market Evaporating, Report Finds

Marketplace K-12

Future revenue in the $33 billion e-learning market is expected to fall precipitously in the United States and internationally, but sales of other types of digital learning products are predicted to rise, according to a market research report released recently. Unstable Economies Impact E-Learning Market.

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Looking Back on Three Years of the ConnectED Initiative: Did It Deliver?

Edsurge

As EdSurge reported, to be part of the initiative, companies “had to commit to providing goods or services worth at least $100 million.” But as Betsy Corcoran outlined in her July 2014 article , some companies had yet to deliver on their promise of clearly outlining how educators could apply for those products and services.

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Cash Awards Honor Faculty and Institutions for Innovative Use of Digital Tools

Edsurge

Fulé and her colleague Don Carter, the university’s director of e-learning, launched the. So he struck up a partnership with Cengage Learning, a Boston-based education technology and information company. For boosting student retention and success and reducing costs by embracing online OER textbooks Northern Arizona University.

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Unlocking the Gate to Better Learning

EdNews Daily

To “ungate” in software is to allow a user to proceed to the next level or into a new section. In some software, gating is a way for teachers to lever up or hold back individual students so that they can surge forward if they are high achievers or remain with a group. By LeiLani Cauthen. Imagine that.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 10 Edition)

Doug Levin

" Tagged on: March 10, 2017 Drop it like it's bot: Brands have cooled on chatbots | Digiday → Many companies have begun dropping their bots, saying that they don't do what they were supposed to: “I would call it overpromising." Case in point: Chrome extensions gone bad.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Or it will raise a bunch of venture capital to support its “free” offering for a while, and then the company will get acquired and the product will go away. And “free” doesn’t last.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

The NAACP endorses OER. “5 Reasons Why e-textbooks in Egypt Would Be Inequitable” by Maha Bali. ” Via NBC News : “How to Thrive: Arianna Huffington Launches E-Learning Series.” Jeff Fernandez, the co-founder of the online learning company Grovo , has resigned. ” asks Jade E.