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8 EdTech Trends to Watch Out for This 2020

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From digital certificates to learning analytics, here are eight EdTech trends to look forward to in the coming months. Video-assisted Learning. This grants schools more insight into their learning behavior, which then helps teachers come up with more effective curriculums in the future. 3D Printing.

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MOOCs Are Global. So Where Do They Stand With New European Privacy Laws?

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Preparing for the regulation has been a dizzying experience for organizations across industries. And the issue gets even stickier for colleges hosting massive open online courses with outside learning platforms, which host free or low-cost digital courses for millions of learners around the globe. million in Europe.

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It’s 2020: Have Digital Learning Innovations Trends Changed?

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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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The Stories We've Been Told (in 2017) about Education Technology

Hack Education

I’ve called this “the Top Ed-Tech Trends,” but this has never been an SEO-optimized list of products that the ed-tech industry wants schools or parents or companies to buy (or that it claims schools and parents and companies are buying). Beyond the MOOC. MOOCs and Anti-MOOCs. Learning to Code.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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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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‘Our Technology Is Our Ideology’: George Siemens on the Future of Digital Learning

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A researcher, theorist, educator, Siemens is the digital learning guy. He’s credited with co-teaching the first MOOC in 2008, introduced the theory of “connectivism”—the idea that knowledge is distributed across digital networks—and spearheaded research projects about the role of data and analytics in education.

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Why U. of Michigan’s President Says Universities Should Work to Transform Teaching

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A few years ago, there was all this attention to MOOCs, and Michigan was a leader in that. Where do you see MOOCs fitting in now? The whole MOOC craze was just fascinating to me. Also, our MOOCs serve as a bit of an advertisement for the university. You're trained as a physician.

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