Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Thanks to — or because of — technology change happens at a faster rate than ever before, and education makes no exception. As the Executive Director of ICWE , Rebecca Stromeyer has been a champion of e-learning for decades, organizing some of the world’s most popular education events: OEB Global and eLearning Africa. Rebecca Stromeyer.

EdTech 150

EdTech E-rate Trends Microsoft 150

Hack Education

OCTOBER 14, 2016

” “Modern E-Rate Puts Telephones On Hold in K–12,” Education Week reports , noting that schools are struggling to pay for phone service (still totally necessary) as well as expanded broadband. . Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Microsoft -Branded MOOCs for K–12 Leaders.”

Education 40

Education lynda.com Knewton E-rate 40

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

” That’d be Glenn Reynolds , @instapundit , who also briefly had his Twitter account suspended. Via The Backchannel : “ Microsoft Weaponizes Minecraft in the War Over Classrooms.” Via Buzzfeed : “After Reporting Abuse , Many Twitter Users Hear Silence Or Worse.” ” asks NPR.

Education 40

Education Coursera Facebook Social Media 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

It is the instructional designer and tenured professor’s signal — “to the barricades!” — and everyone snipes at the other side from the Twitter trenches for a week, until there’s an unspoken truce that lasts until the next “ban laptops” op-ed gets published. A “ban laptops” op-ed may be the greatest piece of ed-tech clickbait ever devised.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Princeton University and Microsoft have joined together to file a lawsuit against President Trump’s rescinding of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. ” Via The New York Times : “ Kremlin Cash Behind Billionaire’s Twitter and Facebook Investments.”

Education 45

Education Facebook Company Report 45

Hack Education

JUNE 8, 2018

Via E&E News : “ Cabinet heads told to praise Paris exit. ” Via Motherboard : “ Twitter Is Banning Anyone Whose Date of Birth Says They Joined Before They Were 13.” Microsoft has acquired GitHub. Here’s the NYT headline : “Microsoft Buys GitHub for $7.5 million total.

Khan Academy 45

Khan Academy Education Facebook E-rate 45

Hack Education

JULY 21, 2017

” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “More than 50 groups have signed a letter demanding that Candice E. Rebecca Schuman is back with her annual “ Rate My JIL ,” where she skewers the higher ed job market. Kahoot has raised $10 million in Series A funding from Creandum, Northzone, and Microsoft Ventures.

Education 46

Education LMS Robotics E-rate 46

Hack Education

DECEMBER 8, 2016

” Among the things the initiative will research: “The impact of algorithmic filters and user behavior on what we see in platforms such as Twitter and Facebook, which tend to limit our exposure to opinions and lifestyles different than our own.” ” Funding and Acquisitions (The Business of Ed-Tech). million total.

Education 40

Education Report E-rate Company 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Microsoft and Apple are two. E-Rate has been, since the origin of the fund in 1996, the main way in which schools and libraries were supposedly guaranteed “reasonable rates” on telecommunications services. million in E-Rate rebates.).

Technology 40

Technology Education Facebook Company 40