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Pros and Cons of Using eLearning Software in Your Classroom

Educational Technology Guy

Stay tuned in Top-quality portals for educators allow instant access to up-to-date information on EdTech trends, new product launches, and innovative teaching methods. However, EdTech companies study the market, pay attention to trending topics or the latest advancements, and cover them in their blogs.

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The design and future of open education: Curtis Bonk on Future Trends Forum

Bryan Alexander

After one conversation with Cable Green , my Future Trends Forum pursued this theme further on April 27th with excellent and dramatic guest Curtis Bonk. Some discussion on Twitter occurred as well, along with several good questions, which you can examine in this Storify. ” What does open education mean for higher education?

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Millennials: The Straw That Will Stir Higher Education’s Next Disruption

EdNews Daily

Beyond coursework, students swim in a flux of data, buffeted by phone calls, text messages, Facebook updates, Twitter tweets, news crawls, and other sources. One example of this is the newest trend of “ digital badges.” Today’s Millennials have different educational needs from those of previous generations.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” (Edsurge, for what it’s worth, shares investors with Class Central, Udacity, and Coursera (although there’s no disclosure on that article to that end) – funny how the narratives about the “revolutionary” potential of MOOCs get spread, eh?). Test Preparation Market Through 2021.”

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What 2015 Holds for the Future of Education

Digital Promise

While this is a positive trend, I also hope adult education teachers are able to focus on teaching their students how to learn in a way that is content-agnostic. ’ A prime example of this work from 2014 are the texts, lesson plans, and pedagogy shared by educators on Twitter through #FergusonSyllabus.” ” Robert Bajor.

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Edtech Industry Magnate Michael Moe Makes a Pivot

Edsurge

One of the trends we see is what I call “weapons of mass instruction,” these rapidly scaling companies that have network effects and other types of exponential growth where you can see that value created at a speed that heretofore wasn’t possible in this space. Coursera’s six years old and has 40 million students on its platform.

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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.