Gaggle Speaks

MARCH 25, 2015

One of my very memorable failures was in 2003, when I went to Austin ISD to present to the technology team as the final step of a large purchase. But, when the technology fails and you can’t take a breath no matter how hard you try, it’s called a panic attack. You may not know it, but education is a very “green” industry.

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EdTech Differentiated Instruction Gamification MOOC 40

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2017

education technology startups ebbed in 2016, dipping roughly 30 percent in deal volume and value from the previous year. These statistics offer a somber reminder that the edtech industry does not produce quick, home run hits. He’s never been a fan of digital textbooks or MOOCs.) Venture capital for U.S.

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EdTech lynda.com Education Company 60

Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

This is the second part of my much-abbreviated look at the stories that were told about education technology in 2018 – and in this case, the people who funded the storytellers. I assumed that they looked to see if the company could do what it promised – financially, technologically. The technology did not work.

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Trends MOOC Company Edmodo 93

TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 8, 2015

This leads to the “innovator’s dilemma,” described recently in The Economist as “the difficult choice an established company faces when it has to choose between holding onto an existing market by doing the same thing a bit better, or capturing new markets by embracing new technologies and adopting new business models.”

Examples 40

Examples Classroom Maker Movement Social Media 40

Wired Campus

APRIL 30, 2015

Our sharks were Goldie Blumenstyk, a senior writer at The Chronicle; Jason Jones, a co-editor of the ProfHacker blog and director of educational technology at Trinity College, in Connecticut; and Paul Freedman, founder of Entangled Ventures, an education-technology company. Each spoke from a different perspective — Ms.

E-rate 28

E-rate Company Course MOOC 28

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Paul LePage has called for a review of his state’s groundbreaking 1-to–1 student computing initiative, highlighting the growing pains nagging an educational-technology movement now well into its second decade.” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Education Week : “ Maine Gov.

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Education Coursera Elsevier MOOC 52

Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

One of education technologies’s greatest luminaries passed away this year. It’s all of our loss, really, as too many in education technology happily reduce the potential of computer programming as an epistemological endeavor to a market for new products. This is part six of my annual review of the year in ed-tech.

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Technology Education Microsoft Industry 85

Hack Education

MAY 26, 2016

This keynote was delivered today at the Irish Learning Technology Association's annual conference, EdTech2016, in Dublin. I’m not sure we talk often enough about technology-enhanced learning in these terms – as a political not merely pedagogical practice. The full slidedeck is available here.

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Conference Course MOOC Technology 63

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Different industries have contributed to the trend. All of these developments are helpfully disrupting the for-profit college industry that preyed upon low-income students for far too long. In the first wave of online learning, we focused on democratizing access to content. Content-Driven vs. Connection-Driven.

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Coursera MOOC Education Khan Academy 106

Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. There’s more for-profit higher ed news – and how the Trump Administration has deep, deep ties to this industry – in the for-profit higher ed section below. ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”).

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Education Pearson Company Blackboard 43

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

” Ref Rodriguez, like most of the current members of the LAUSD school board, has strong financial backing from the charter school industry. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ California Should Watch Arkansas Process for Creating New Online Institution,” says Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill.

Education 51

Education ProctorU Company Report 51

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. The organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology. Um, they do.)

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). In related MOOC news, there's more on “ nanodegrees ” in the “credentialing” section below. Lots of goings-on this week in the loan industry. “ Uber-U is Already Here ” – “powered by Blockchain Technology.”

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Education Pearson Report MOOC 52

Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

Edsurge’s Jeff Young and Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill both asked industry analyst Trace Urdan for his take. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Online education pioneer Tony Bates asks “ What is online learning ?” MarcoPolo Learning has raised $8.5 a month.). .”

Education 47

Education E-rate Company Kaplan 47

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via George Veletsianos : “A large-scale study of Twitter Use in MOOCs.” ” Research finds there’s a " global achievement gap in MOOCs. Via Campus Technology : “ Harvard Tailoring the MOOC Experience With Adaptive Learning.”

Education 40

Education MOOC Data Elsevier 40

Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Here’s The Chronicle headline from then : “Professor Leaves a MOOC in Mid-Course in Dispute Over Teaching.”) Good thing I never did anything in those MOOCs, otherwise I'd be losing my work. Remember Richard McKenzie? ” asks Edsurge.

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Education MOOC Company Report 48

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” Oh sure sure, this isn’t exactly education technology news, except for the part where Khosla invests in education technology companies and his wife founded the open education organization CK–12. “Open.”

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Education Company Data Elsevier 46

Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “As In-Person Bootcamps Falter, Codecademy Introduces Paid Online Options.” Pretty sure this is the best MOOC story of the week: “ Russian Underground Launches Online Courses in Card Fraud ,” Infosecurity Group reports.

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Khan Academy Elsevier Education MOOC 46

Hack Education

JULY 21, 2017

Via Education Week : “ Minecraft Party to Raise Money for Technology in Philly Schools.” Via The San Francisco Chronicle : “ Dev Bootcamp couldn’t tough out industry shakeout.” “ Credly Receives Open Badges Certification ,” Campus Technology reports. ” Immigration and Education.

Education 46

Education LMS Robotics E-rate 46

Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “ Coursera ’s New Strategy Takes Inspiration From Netflix – and LinkedIn.” ” There’s more MOOC-related research in the research section below. Adeptemy , an adaptive learning company, has raised $3.48

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