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Looking to Grow in China? 3 Lessons for U.S. Edtech Companies

Edsurge

Asia has the world’s highest regional growth rate for e-learning, and an e-learning market projected to be worth $12.1 The Chinese Ministry of Education is encouraging the growth of local MOOCs, with a policy that sets targets of 1,000 from Chinese universities by 2017 and 3,000 by 2020. billion by 2018.

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9 Great Nonprofits to Support School Leaders

Tom Murray

As school leaders, AASA supports their members in setting the pace for academic achievement as they work to shape policy, oversee implementation, and represent school districts throughout the nation and worldwide. Institute for Educational Leadership (IEL). Connect: [link] , @IELconnects.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

And certainly the expectation of many ed-tech products (and increasingly school policy) is that parents will do just this — participate in the incessant monitoring of student data. To Save Students Money, Colleges May Force a Switch to E-Textbooks,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reported in 2010. 3D Printing.

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A new “MicroMasters” online learning program offered by major universities

The Hechinger Report

Galileo University, Guatemala (e-Learning, offered in Spanish; Professional Android Developer). University of Michigan (User Experience Research and Design; Leading Educational Innovation and Improvement; Social Work: Practice, Policy and Research). The completion rates for these free, open courses remain very low.

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Education's Online Futures

Hack Education

And then there were MOOCs , of course, and all those predictions and all those promises about the end of college as we know it: “MOOCs make education borderless, gender-blind, race-blind, class-blind and bank account-blind” and similar fables. Vive la MOOC Révolution. Adam Medros became edX’s president and COO.

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How Amazon’s Purchase of Whole Foods Highlights the Hybrid, ‘Omnichannel’ Future of Higher Ed

Edsurge

Amazon has become one of the most valuable companies in the world—with a current market value of $475 billion —based on its domination of e-commerce (holding an astounding 50 percent share of all online retail sales); its leadership in the cloud computing business ; and the strength of its software algorithms.

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Education Technology and the Promise of 'Free' and 'Open'

Hack Education

The Rebranding of MOOCs. Remember 2012 , “ The Year of the MOOC? Remember in 2012 when the media wrote about MOOCs with such frenzy, parroting all these marketing claims and more and predicting that MOOCs were poised to “ end the era of expensive higher education ”? MOOCs are not particularly "open."

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