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Do We Really Want Academic Permanent Records to Live Forever on Blockchain?

Edsurge

In recent years, blockchain technology has become a buzzword in the edtech sector. The technology could also allow for a more seamless international exchange of ideas and mobility among students and researchers through effective recognition and certificate management. Learning behavior and outcomes? Social information?

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How to choose the right solution platform for virtual campus management.

Linways Technologies

Data-Driven Results As an institution, the way you treat education and manage it is different from MOOCs or short-term online courses. As we said, it’s very different for MOOCs or online course platforms and entire institutions, and digitizing education doesn’t mean the same in these scenarios. Responsive Learning/Mobile Application.

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?Meet Intel Education Accelerator’s Newest Cohort of EdTech Visionaries

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It was an edtech entrepreneur’s dream on Wednesday at Intel’s Education Accelerator Demo Day. Currently in beta testing, KiraKira plans to begin raising a $2 million seed round in January—the same time it’s planning to launch a mobile app. It’s the eighth startup project for CEO Cy Megnin, who’s raised $500,000 for the company so far.

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7 Ways for Learning Designers to Build Habit-Forming Experiences

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Edtech companies use these buzzwords to describe the next generation of learning tools. Without imposed schedules, proximity to peers, or physical classrooms, even the best-intentioned students never make it through a MOOC or fail to reengage with the educational app they downloaded. “Self-paced.”

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As Corporate World Moves Toward Curated ‘Microlearning,’ Higher Ed Must Adapt

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When there’s a need for information or new skills, employees today are increasingly turning to instantly accessible sources such as search engines and online course libraries available on their mobile devices. Pluralsight—an online IT training provider—has scaled to become an edtech “unicorn,” with a valuation over $1 billion.

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?A Starter Kit for Instructional Designers

Edsurge

Designing online learning experiences is essential to training employees, mobilizing customers, serving students, building marketing channels, and sustaining business models. This approach helps you clarify your target outcomes and how you’ll collect “evidence of learning.”

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Higher education technology predictions for 2014

Mark Smithers

Some new services and platforms will emerge to cater for different forms of learning, MOOCs will evolve and improve and open badges will be hot. The MOOC backlash. Of course I have to start with MOOCs. The MOOC backlash started in earnest in 2013. MOOC providers will keep on refining them. Introduction.

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