EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 11, 2017

51Talk (or “China Online Education Group”), China’s leading online education platform and the first from China listed on the NYSE (NYSE: COE), was invited to attend the summit alongside education industry leaders such as Pearson, Amazon, and YouTube.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2020

Blockchain technology first appeared as part of cyber currencies like Bitcoin, but a range of industries are now experimenting with the approach, which involves making digital transactions public and permanent in a way that is very difficult to tamper with or counterfeit.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The primary trends identified by the team were: adaptive learning, open education resources (OER), gamification and game-based learning, MOOCs, LMS and interoperability, mobile devices, and design.

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2019

When you look at the data—and we still need better data—studies show 80 percent of the people pursuing [bootcamps and MOOC]s already have a bachelor's degree. So the innovation is not happening in undergrad? It's the same graduate degree from the same institution, and it might be a third of the cost. Yeah, absolutely. It's been happening.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2018

Amazon Inspire Goes Live (But Without Controversial Share Feature) Nearly a year after Amazon launched its Inspire project, which was touted as a hub for educators to exchange lesson plans and other open education resources, the site still remained in limited, invitation-only beta. Well, at least partially open.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

If I was still doing that now, I would be incredibly excited because so many wonderful resources would be available to my classroom. For instance, if I was teaching Social Studies today… My students and I definitely would be tapping into an incredible diversity of online resources. And so on… .

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Our current definition of equity is that we offer all students the same resources,” he says. That makes sense in the industrial world in which the measure of achievement and progress in higher education is time [spent in class].

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

Menon said that California’s new online college was designed to help working adults find “skills-based pathways that are aligned to industry standards,” and to help connect them with the labor market. But will colleges have the resources to respond?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

In fact, resources and funding are often geared toward the traditional 17- to 22-year-old college-going population and less often to working adults, our growing new-traditional student population. can’t just say, “Here’s a MOOC, or here’s an online degree, or a 6- to 12-week immersive bootcamp.”. We have to do better.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2016

So earlier this summer, researchers at Stanford and Ithaka S+R, a nonprofit education consulting firm, brought together 70 representatives—mostly from academia, but also from government, leading nonprofits and the commercial education technology industry—to discuss some of the hot-button issues surrounding big data in higher education.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2017

One early version of this new kind of partnership was used to build and deliver Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) through alliances like Coursera and edX. Or what if they shared career services resources so that a group of small colleges could better compete against larger universities for the attention of companies looking to hire.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Diversity in Edtech: It’s Not a Pipeline Problem : Enough talk about the “pipeline” as the reason behind why women and people of color are underrepresented in the edtech industry. The Evolution of MOOCs: Six Years Later : Are MOOCs still around? moments as you share resources, challenges and perspectives on common problems.

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MOOC EdTech Company Trends 79

Edsurge

MAY 29, 2018

When I joined Ashford, the MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) had just started and it was quite an interesting movement. The experience is similar to how programs are actually created in the technology industry. Source: Practice Labs Byun’s favorite online learning resources Byun believes “doing is better than reading.”

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2018

All Edhesive students will enjoy free AWS (Amazon Web Services) Educate Starter accounts and other resources. The product, which was initially a computer science MOOC, was developed as a skunkworks project within Amplify and spun out as an independent company in July 2015.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2021

Course profiles feature statistics about typical industry salaries and list the companies that have hired completers. Practically speaking, we’re working with the non-credit side mostly because they can respond most rapidly to industry,” Alssid says. “We All of the classes offer skills training explicitly linked to employment.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2017

Many of the new academic-innovation efforts at colleges started about three years ago, amid widespread hype around massive open online courses, or MOOCs. At the HAIL Storm event, part of the time was spent brainstorming projects that might be created to provide resources to those working in academic innovation.

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TeacherCast

JANUARY 1, 2016

For instance, one recent survey reported that 75% of the responding K-12 educators in the United States assessed their student’s access to technology in the classroom as “good” or “great” Roughly four out of five teachers planned to utilize these types of resources more extensively during the 2016 academic year.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

The edtech entrepreneurs, educators, investors and other education professionals that share their opinions and practices through storytelling on our site are invaluable to this industry, and we celebrate them. She’s put together a guide on the ins and outs of CT, as well as several rich resources anyone can use.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2020

Across industries, demand for talent was booming. MOOC catalog site Class Central has reported a 900 percent spike in traffic , and course enrollment has surged at Coursera. As 2020 kicked off, the U.S. job market was the strongest in 50 years , and the economy had seen a record 113-month streak of job creation.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Now in its seventh year, the annual gathering brings together thousands of entrepreneurs, educators and industry experts from around the world for four days stacked with panel discussions , workshops , an expo hall , meetups , film screenings —plus plenty of after-hours shindigs. continues to grow, how can edtech help serve this population?

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Linways Technologies

JANUARY 6, 2023

Why it is important for success for students and for institutions The industry is more interested in professional skills than disciplinary knowledge. The type of compendium to be used for a particular program should be carefully chosen based on its nature, objectives, and available resources. Both need to be addressed.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Most will experience dramatic swings in local and national economic trends, and they’ll witness entirely new industries and career paths emerge while others collapse. Curate, create, and compile learning activities and resources that will help learners achieve mastery. No one can assume a stable career.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

They are quite resourceful in ways we haven’t seen in the developed world.” Virtual learning, too, must be as ubiquitous as conventional higher education, especially for students too far from college campuses to attend face to face, and now for many in our post-industrial economy, forced to work to earn college degrees.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

A substantial part of the nation’s resources are being devoted to higher education,” Simon said. He co-founded the company in 1999 with Maria Machado, who also got her start in the semiconductor industry before turning her attention to education. The nation has a right to expect more than talented amateurism.”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 6, 2020

Ask a Tech Teacher offers many resources for teachers who wish to introduce students to education technologies in an age-appropriate way. Tech ed resources – online classes . Our site is designed to provide resources for helping everyone get past the confusing parts as quickly as possible.

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Edsurge

JUNE 22, 2017

MOOC providers such as Coursera and edX have recognized this trend for years, with hundreds of organized MeetUps around the world where their learners are encouraged to join study and discussion groups related to their online-only courses.

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Mistakengoal.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

I’ve updated this list adding two sets of resources. Daniel Bell’s 1973 book The Coming of Post-Industrial Society is a classic example of this work. The New Industrial State because it’s also a seminal work and I think that everyone should read something written by Galbraith at least once in their life.

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Edsurge

MAY 31, 2022

It showed the industry, Batra says, that consumers have become agreeable to purchasing edtech. And with universities and schools being given extra funds by the federal government, they'll likely invest in more edtech resources, he says. Why is the doom and gloom attached to the valuation declines overhyped? Just in the U.S.,

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

And in the past ten years these colleges have been active in offering so-called MOOCs, or massive open online courses, which are free or low-cost courses, usually for no official credit. Cornell, for example, lists about 90 in such fields as hospitality, human resources and engineering.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 2, 2019

But how do they compete with resources like MOOCs and OERs that have made high quality course content from respected university professors available for free? Publishers can purchase these libraries to offer additional learning resources to their students. Why Are Educational Publishers Moving Towards Subscription Model?

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Inside Higher Ed : “Analysis of Georgia Tech ’s MOOC-inspired online master’s in computer science suggests that institutions can successfully deliver high-quality, low-cost degrees to students at scale.” “Many are never the same.”

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Neo LMS

JUNE 16, 2020

Although teachers have advanced resources, many are unsure how best to implement them in the classroom. Here are a few methods for staying current in education technology trends: Read through industry magazines. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are also excellent resources, offering free classes from world-renowned universities.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2015

Wednesday, April 29th at 4pm Common Sense Media Webinar: Helping Students Make Good Digital Decisions with Digital Compass , Join Common Sense Education for a webinar to celebrate the launch of their newest free education resource, Digital Compass. A strong push for unfettered play and free time for children will also be presented.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2018

At the time they were not alone in their efforts; Coursera, Udacity (both of which were also co-founded by Stanford professors) and edX had launched MOOC platforms a year earlier. NovoEd’s acquisition marks Devonshire’s first deal in the education technology industry, and there will be more to come, Miller hints.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 9, 2015

Two Week Calendar Saturday, April 11th at 12pm CR20 LIVE: Discovery Education Network Virtual Field Trips and Free Resources with Kyle Schutt , Classroom 2.0 NMC Summer Conference presenters are thought leaders within the education industry at colleges and universities, schools, museums, libraries, organizations, and companies.

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ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 1, 2019

Over the past few years the education industry has been experiencing a shift away traditional learning environments. One of these practices is known as blended learning and the term that has been garnering some attention within the education industry as of late. Teacher may have to create additional resources.

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ViewSonic Education

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Tips and resources to use for your flipped classroom approach. We’ve come a long way since Victorian England and are currently in the midst of the fourth digital industrial revolution. Teachers may have to create additional resources. Tips and Resources for Your Flipped Classroom Approach.

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