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HE Challenges: Fast changing digital teaching methods

Neo LMS

Blended and online learning is increasingly in demand by students. They expect the same flexibility, mobility and always-on services they get with everything from travel and entertainment, also from educational providers. Read more: Why blended learning will become an educational norm. A grim future for today’s providers of HE?

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K-12 Dealmaking: GreatSchools Acquires Schoolie; n2y, Thrivist Gain Funding

Marketplace K-12

GreatSchools said it plans to analyze the new Schoolie data to identify how many students gain exposure to high level courses vs. basic courses. The purchase follows a collaboration this past June between GreatSchools and the U.S. Department of Education on the Civil Rights Data Collection. Modo Labs Gains $10 Million: Cambridge, Mass.-based

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8 Trends in Education Technology That Will Have A Major Impact

Kitaboo on EdTech

Mobile-based devices have taken learning outside of the classroom. With mLearning and eLearning growing in popularity, students can learn at their own pace and time. Designing mobile-first responsive content helps students to go through their courses anytime and anywhere. Social Media in Learning.

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10Q: Martin Weller - the battle for open

Learning with 'e's

I chaired the OU''s first big elearning course in 1999 with 12,000 students which really demonstrated the potential for elearning. blogs, social media, learning objects, OERs, MOOCs, etc in this period. social media developments of the late 00s this was quite small scale. So, it''s a mixed picture.

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The Stories We've Been Told (in 2017) about Education Technology

Hack Education

Then there was the infamous anti-diversity memo distributed by Google engineer James Damore and leaked to the press this summer that charged that efforts the company (and the industry more broadly) had taken to address diversity were misguided as women are biologically ill-suited to computer science – which is, of course, totally b t.

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

Doug Levin

Ever wonder how stories promoted by ‘thought leaders’ on social media get selected? "This sort of pie-in-the-sky belief that simply getting more computers in kids' hands and more app-development elective courses in schools will make the future bright is an oversimplification of a complex issue."

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” The scheme involved Ed4Mil , “an online correspondence course provider,” and a former dean of Caldwell University. The company provides “interactive lessons and content on a mobile platform to low-skilled workers.” ” The survey was conducted by learning analytics company Civitas Learning.