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SXSWedu 2017: Ones to Watch and What to Know

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Making Smart Decisions in a Crowded Edtech Market : EdSurge’s very own Leonard Medlock (Director, Concierge) will pry open some examples of districts working with Concierge and discuss strategies around how to articulate challenges, find and choose technology and successfully pilot selected tools. EdSurge 4:00 p.m. Higher Ed 9:30 a.m.

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This Year’s ASU+GSV Summit Is Hard to Describe. Here’s Our Best Attempt.

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We provide some kind of example that you can survive outside that system” of federal aid. Maia Sharpley , who spent 9 years as vice president for strategy and innovation with Kaplan , is now a full partner with Learn Capital. Going Global One the most prolific U.S. A desire to collaborate—and egos to compete.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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His wife is also the founder of the OER organization CK12. And before you sic your PR team on me, yes, I realize that Purdue Global is not a for-profit, even though it’s mostly a rebranded Kaplan. Here’s another example of the terrible potential (and the terribly obvious potential) of predictive analytics.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). Certainly “free” works well for cash-strapped schools.

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