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Guest post: Caston Binger Explains How the Digital Revolution Has Transformed Education

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Students can find information on any topic they study with a simple Google search. However, with the advent of social media and collaborative software tools, students can now work together from anywhere. One great example of this is the online classroom platform, Edmodo. One great example of this is the website Coursera.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

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Connexeo (school administration software): $110 million. Coursera (online education): $210.1 Investors in tutoring companies this year included Warbug Pincus, Goldman Sachs, Learn Capital, Y Combinator, the Omidyar Network, Sequoia Capital, TAL Education, Tencent, Google, and of course, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

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The Top Ed-Tech Trends (Aren't 'Tech')

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Silicon Valley does include Mountain View, where Google is headquartered. Turns out that “free” might not be the best business model for a for-profit company, particularly one that cannot rely on advertising the same way that other “free” products like Facebook and Google can. ” Despite raising some $87.5

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Or the company will have to start charging for the software. In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That). It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” 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. “ Google Drive will soon back up your entire computer,” says The Verge. I wonder how many schools and districts that use the software have done this?

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Hack Education Weekly News

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From the Coursera blog : “Coursera pilots a new course format.” ” More via I Programmer on Coursera ’s decision to remove old courses from its platform. .” ” More via I Programmer on Coursera ’s decision to remove old courses from its platform. “Can U.S.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via Education Week : “ Iowa schools to stop using $14M testing software after audit.” ” According to this Techcrunch article , MOOCs like Udacity and Coursera weren’t working out for AirBnB so now it is “running its own internal university to teach data science.”