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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

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Among the major trends Meeker identified for 2017: mobile advertising, gaming, and healthcare. There are, after all, only so many times you can put “mobile” on your list of “what’s on the horizon” before folks begin to suspect your insights might not be that… insightful. How accurate is her data? (I’d

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Hack Education Weekly News

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.” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). “ MOOCs no longer massive, still attract millions,” Class Central’s Dhawal Shah claims in a VentureBeat op-ed. Udacity ’s mobile apps now support “ offline learning.” Knewton has partnered with WebAssign.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). 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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senators released a bill Monday that would overturn the ban on a federal student-level data system that would allow for the tracking of employment and graduation rates. ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “Why Haven’t MOOCs Eliminated Any Professors?”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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“The UK government has published its 2016 HE White Paper, entitled Success as a Knowledge Economy: Teaching Excellence, Social Mobility and Student Choice,” the Times Higher Education reports. ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). “ OpenStax , Knewton introduce adaptive learning into OER.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Apparently the FAFSA will soon be available on mobile devices. House Hearing on Algorithms & Big Data : 5 Takeaways for Schools.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” These headlines just kill me. ” More MOOC data in the “research” section below.

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