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HE Challenges: Fast changing digital teaching methods

Neo LMS

A range of specialist companies and private institutions is now providing excellent higher education components, as well as providing ancillary and support services such as examination and certification services, learning support, learning analytics, etc. but less likely to engage the software to create lessons.

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#EDEN15 BCN

Learning with 'e's

Now in its 24th year, the event grows from strength to strength, with two annual events every year, an individual membership of over 1200 worldwide practitioners in all sectors of education and training, and a well-oiled mechanism in support. Unported License.

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K-12 Dealmaking: GreatSchools Acquires Schoolie; n2y, Thrivist Gain Funding

Marketplace K-12

Riverside will work with n2y’s management team “to continue to deepen and expand the customer base, add complementary new products, enhance teacher training and development efforts, and pursue strategic add-on opportunities,” according to a statement. The amount of the investment was not disclosed. Franklin, Tenn.-based

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Tonight - A True History of the MOOC

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Alec Couros is a Professor of educational technology and media at the Faculty of Education, University of Regina. He has given hundreds of workshops and presentations, nationally and internationally, on topics such as openness in education, networked learning, social media in education, digital citizenship, and critical media literacy.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” The Business of Job Training. Via CNBC : “ Amazon ’s cloud is looking at building a corporate training service.” The tutoring training company has raised about $1 million total. Language learning app Extempore has raised $420,000 from Syndicate Fund. million total. million from unnamed investors.

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8 Trends in Education Technology That Will Have A Major Impact

Kitaboo on EdTech

Most of the educational institutes today have adopted mobile learning into their learning ecosystems, benefiting students and teachers alike. Social Media in Learning. Who would have ever thought that social media would one day be accepted as part of the learning process? Download Now!

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

Platforms provide the substructure for the “gig economy” and the “sharing economy”; they’re the economic engine of social media; they’re the architecture of the “attention economy” and the inspiration for claims about the “end of ownership.”