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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

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Another notable area of growth: the size of the report itself, which has expanded from 66 slides in 2011 to 355 this year , with the number of slides almost doubling in the last year alone. There may be no better example of this in 2017 than “personalized learning.” Is this really a trend? Manufacturing Trends.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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.” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Via the Coursera blog : “Coming soon to all courses: Flexible session-based schedules.” Education Dive makes claims about “ MOOCs as tools for equity in under-resourced high schools.” ” Imperial College London has joined edX.

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Driverless Ed-Tech: The History of the Future of Automation in Education

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“The Year of the MOOC” – I was summoned to Palo Alto, California for a small gathering to discuss the future of teaching, learning, and technology. Perhaps with this data, the MOOC providers can build a map of professional if not cognitive pathways. Let me begin with a story.

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Education Technology and Data Insecurity

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ESSA gives more autonomy and flexibility to states than they had under NCLB through competency-based assessments, which could drive the development of personalized learning technologies. Pike unleashing pepper spray into the face of peaceful protesters in 2011 weren’t the first thing that people found about the school online.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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.” The article notes that “The number of states planning to use the new [SBAC and PARCC] tests dropped from 45 in 2011 to 20 in 2016.” ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). “ Are MOOCs Forever ?” A “ personalized learning explainer ” from Mindwire Consulting.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. In 2011, Ning was acquired by “lifestyle” site Glam Media for around $150 million. In 2011, the Mozilla Foundation unveiled its “Open Badges Project,” “an effort to make it easy to issue and share digital learning badges across the web.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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“The Snooki bill” is a response to $32,000 that the Jersey Shore star received from Rutgers in 2011. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ Coursera Removes Biometric Identity Verification Using Keystroke Matching,” Class Central reports. ” The accused: John R.