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.
Edsurge
JULY 15, 2019
And focusing on digital makes the secondary textbook market even less attractive, since students have to buy access directly from Pearson to get course materials. These developments come at a time when the textbook publishing industry has seen a number of deals and transactions, all focused on digital courseware.
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Edsurge
MAY 26, 2020
Top Hat is “partially becoming a publisher—the thing that they’ve long wanted to compete with,” observes Phil Hill, an education industry analyst and consultant. Silagadze likens his model to GitHub, the project collaboration tool popular among the tech industry, whereby users can collaborate and contribute updates.
Kitaboo on EdTech
JUNE 13, 2019
Publishers resorted to this move with the sole ambition of survival in the publishing industry. But these are secondary causes. Now post-secondary tuition fee provides more revenue than public appropriations. Related: Can the US Higher Education Publishing Industry Leverage A Subscription Model. Use eTextbook Rentals.
Edsurge
MAY 23, 2019
While in Big Soda the main players are Coke and Pepsi, their equivalent in the publishing industry are Pearson and Cengage (which has announced that plans to merge with McGraw-Hill). That’s one argument made by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, or SPARC, which advocates for lower textbook costs and OER.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 9, 2017
.” In his book, Srnicek identifies five kinds of platforms: advertising platforms (like Google and Facebook), cloud platforms (like Salesforce and Amazon Web Services), industrial platforms (like GE and Siemens), product platforms (like Spotify), and lean platforms (like Uber and AirBnB). Subscribe to their blog.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 30, 2019
Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. 3D printing, The Economist pronounced in 2012 , was poised to bring about the third industrial revolution. (I
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