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From Mexico to China: Why the World is Interested in the United States Edtech Market

Edsurge

Jamie Najera Jamie Najera, an administrator at Colegio Nexus School in Monterrey, Mexico, traveled about 300 miles this week to attend the International Society for Technology in Education ( ISTE ) conference, where he hoped to find new technologies to support his students. “We You know education is not a big business in Mexico. “In

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European Edtech Investor Brighteye Ventures Raises $54 Million for Second Fund

Edsurge

companies like Coursera are raising hundreds of millions at billion-dollar valuations. which has been home to an edtech investment fund (Emerge Education), a large annual edtech expo (BETT) and a conference for investors (EdtechX Europe). Others are building language-learning apps and toys that teach kids STEM concepts.

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STEMxCon - Today Is the Final Deadline for Proposals; Great Keynotes + Sessions; Need Volunteers!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The end of the day today is the final deadline to get in a proposal to speak at next week''s free and online 2013 Global STEMx Education Conference (STEMxCon.com) , September 19 - 21. They are listed below, and after the reminder plea for moderator volunteers, you''ll also find the current list of all conference sessions. Huge thanks!

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Headline changed from “ Coursera ’s Update Will Eliminate Hundreds of Courses” to “Coursera’s Update Will Migrate Hundreds of Courses to a New Platform.” ” Coursera, initially only emailing former students about their old course work, decided finally to blog about its platform change.

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Another pandemic-related threat to universities: falling numbers of graduate students

The Hechinger Report

The number of master’s degrees alone conferred by universities rose 70 percent from 2000 to 2017, and more than tripled since 1970. Travel restrictions tightened even further to combat the coronavirus pandemic — and economic reversals and paranoia stemming from it — may only make this worse. Photo: Geri Lavrov/Getty Images.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Big HR news about Coursera in the HR section below. Coursera has a new CEO: Jeff Maggioncalda. Start Holding Weekly Data Conferences ,” says Edsurge. Entangled Solutions’ consultants Deborah Seymour and Michael B. ” From the HR Department.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Indeed, according to one story in The Atlantic , a school district in Colorado opted to do away with parent-teacher conferences entirely, encouraging parents instead to simply check online to see what their children were up to. Edsurge told its version of events for the past decade’s worth of ed-tech, and I told mine. Peter Thiel.

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