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Year in Review: Our Top Edtech Business Stories of 2018

Edsurge

Yet it can be tedious to manually keep track of how students interact with different pieces of software—or whether these tools are even being used. Much of the buzz surrounding Apple’s events focus on new gadgets like the iPads. What Happens to Student Data Privacy When Chinese Firms Acquire US Edtech Companies?

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security. In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. It’s now become a way in which educational events, organizations, and institutions dole out funding for projects.

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