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Edsurge
APRIL 1, 2022
In the next few days, thousands of edtech entrepreneurs, investors, educators and policymakers will flood a hotel in San Diego to attend the Mecca of Education Innovation Optimism known as ASU GSV. So now is the perfect time to reflect on the state of edtech. Today’s K12 educators are more digitally native than ever before.
Edsurge
APRIL 13, 2022
A year earlier, Stanford University computer scientist Sebastien Thrun, co-founder of commercial MOOC provider Udacity, outdid Christiansen, predicting an even bleaker future for face-to-face classes, claiming that in 50 years streaming lectures will so subvert conventional higher ed that only 10 U.S. colleges will remain standing.
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Edsurge
MARCH 1, 2017
Companies like Microsoft, Facebook and Google are all dipping their toes into virtual and augmented reality. This panel asks how this technology might expand the walls of the classroom—or isolate students from the learning environment. How to Best Serve ELLs with Edtech : As the number of English Language Learners (ELL) in the U.S.
Hack Education
SEPTEMBER 2, 2016
Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Just a few weeks after Daphne Koller ’s announcement she was leaving the MOOC startup she co-founded, Coursera unveiled “ Coursera for Business ” this week, marking its pivot from “democratizing higher ed” to “ training corporate employees.”
Hack Education
APRIL 13, 2018
Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). “ Apple and Microsoft Now Offer $100 Styluses. ” Via Edsurge : “Transcription and Accessibility – New Partnerships from Microsoft and Amazon.” As The Financial Times puts it , “EdTech fails to pay, again.”
Hack Education
MAY 5, 2017
Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Brown University joins edX. “ Y Combinator MOOC for Tech Startups Attracts Thousands of Views,” says Campus Technology. Not sure why this is called a MOOC. Microsoft had a media event this week. The Business of Job Training. Yik Yak had raised $73.5
Hack Education
SEPTEMBER 23, 2016
.” “ State educational technology directors have outlined ambitious targets for increasing school bandwidth capacity in an effort to support digital learning and bridge the technology divide that exists in schools and in students’ homes,” says Education Week. ” The story of UClass and Renaissance Learning.
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