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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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But Posterous, if you’ll recall, was acquired by Twitter in 2012 and shut down one year later. “Some colleges cancel their contracts with online education provider Lynda.com after double-digit price hikes, saying the company is pricing itself out of the higher education market,” Inside Higher Ed reported in January.

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Media Literacy Resources for Classrooms

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The Ontario Curriculum (by the Ontario Ministry of Education): Maybe the best example of how to weave media literacy fundamentally into primary and secondary school curricula. Creating Media and Media Production There's a common saying within media literacy education: People need to not just be consumers but creators.

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

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” The technology revolution has delivered Google searches, Facebook friends, iPhone apps, Twitter rants and shopping for almost anything on Amazon, all in the past decade and a half. ” MOOC startups like Udacity and Coursera have also rebranded to target this particular post-secondary technical training market.

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'Robots Are Coming For Your Jobs'

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Don’t mess with her on Twitter. Indeed, the job prospects for those with just a high school diploma but no additional schooling are pretty dismal , even for positions that once did not demand any sort of post-secondary education. You can look to Lynda.com, which was acquired by LinkedIn in 2015 for $1.5 weird that, eh?)