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Are Colleges Ready For an Online-Education World Without OPMs?

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According to edtech consultant Phil Hill in a recent blog post , most revenue-sharing ventures have either lost money or barely reached breakeven. Leaders in the sector, including 2U, Coursera and Keypath, never made a profit on the activity, and Pearson and Wiley sold off their OPM offshoots in recent months when the going got rough.

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Wow Them with the Solar Eclipse on Aug. 21st!

Teacher Reboot Camp

In my newest book, Hacking Digital Learning Strategies: 10 Ways to Launch EdTech Missions in Your Classroom (out soon), I’ve dedicated one of the missions to citizen science projects. Lessons and Resources. The Eclipse Megamovie Project has a cool simulator of the eclipse and other learning resources.

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Course Hero Joins the Edtech Unicorn Stable

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If anything, Course Hero has doubled down on its model by replicating its resource-sharing platform for instructors and faculty members. Having these kinds of resources at hand can be very helpful,” she says of the Course Hero platform, where she has a profile. Users who upload class materials can access the full library for free.

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How Voice-Enabled Technology is Changing the Contours of Higher Education

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Higher education institutions, edtechs and learning companies are using Alexa to enhance experiences for students and provide access to information and learning resources in a more convenient way. Higher education institutions, edtechs and learning companies are using Alexa to enhance experiences for students.

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8 teacher-loved edtech tools to try in 2017

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There are literally hundreds, if not thousands of apps and online edtech tools for that! To help you get a little bit more innovative in the coming academic year, here is a list of proven-effective edtech tools that may be highly useful in the classroom. This edtech tool is another way to get information to prepare teaching materials.

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The Microlearning Moment in Workplace Learning

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These developments will have important implications for colleges and universities, training and skills providers, edtech firms and investors and other stakeholders in the education ecosystem. The shift to remote work in the pandemic also fueled the purchase of low-cost subscriptions to online training libraries.

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?Readers’ Roundup: EdSurge HigherEd’s Top 10 Articles of 2017

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Microcredentials, and controversial moves and pivots by edtech companies hoping to disrupt the higher education landscape. A few weeks after EdSurge probed the company about the silence, Amazon opened up the resource library to the public. What Happened to Google's Effort to Scan Millions of University Library Books?