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This Year’s ASU+GSV Summit Is Hard to Describe. Here’s Our Best Attempt.

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Each year, the conference organizers try to broaden the conversation. happened on the Sunday evening before the first day of the conference. When to Buy, When to Sell It’s only fitting at this conference that there’d be at least one session with this exact title. The Innovators of Color award was front and center.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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An op-ed in Inside Higher Ed from EAB’s Melanie Hoe : “What the Purdue-Kaplan Deal Means for You.” ” Via Education Dive : “The Purdue-Kaplan Earthquake.” Start Holding Weekly Data Conferences ,” says Edsurge. ” Via Edsurge : “What Is ‘Quality’? ” Fox.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. Founded in 2008 by a former Kaplan executive Jose Ferreira, Knewton was one of the most heavily funded ed-tech startups of the decade. Peter Thiel.

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