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Saddle Up for Silicon Slopes! Our Guide to the 2017 ASU+GSV Summit

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Luminaries in the edtech industry, including Richard Culatta (ISTE CEO and former director of the Office of Educational Technology at the U.S. godfather” of OER and Chief Academic Officer of Lumen Learning), trace their roots here. edtech deals. She adds: “If you don’t tie learning to talent, you miss the point of edtech.”.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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The US Department of Education released its “ #GoOpenDistrict Launch Packet ,” encouraging schools to use OER. Via Inverse : “ Udemy ’s Exodus, Amazon ’s Gain. Lots of press releases were issued this week to coincide with the ISTE conference in Denver – Amazon’s new OER platform, for example.

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