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8 EdTech Trends to Watch Out for This 2020

Ask a Tech Teacher

Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Wally Clipper, has a great run-down on 8 trends you’ll want to watch in 2020: 8 EdTech Trends to Watch Out for This 2020. While EdTech has been helping schools and other educational institutions a lot since it was introduced, its benefits have grown even more this year. Video-assisted Learning.

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US Edtech Investments Peak Again With $1.45 Billion Raised in 2018

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edtech startups in 2017. And that dip in dealflow has been happening in recent years: Investors are pouring more money into the edtech industry, but across fewer companies. Source: EdSurge One trend is clear: The dollars invested in the US edtech industry has ticked up steadily since 2011 (considering 2015 as an aberration).

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

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Perhaps the biggest acquisition of the year was Edmodo. million for Edmodo – only about $15 million of which was cash. “EdTech fails to pay, again,” The Financial Times chuckled. ” (Its MOOC competitor edX also announced this year that many of its courses would no longer be free.)

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). “ Is The LMS A Distraction In EdTech Futurology? Via the IBM press release : “How Watson Education , Scholastic and Edmodo are using AI to close the learning gap.” billion over next decade,” Inside Higher Ed reports. ” asks Edsurge.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). The big “business of ed-tech” news of the week: Edmodo has been acquired by Chinese game-maker NetDragon. Edmodo had raised some $77.5 Edmodo had raised some $77.5 As The Financial Times puts it , “EdTech fails to pay, again.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” The University of Iceland has joined edX. From the Edmodo blog : “We’re Partnering with Clever to Give Districts Automatic Digital Classrooms!” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. Will they make it happen? ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “Why Haven’t MOOCs Eliminated Any Professors?” “​ Intel Hits Pause on Edtech Accelerator,” says Edsurge. But this isn’t the first time Edmodo’s had security issues , incidentally.) That’s UploadVR.

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