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

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In early 2017, organizations that have focused on digital learning came together to better leverage their strengths and capacities for a common goal: improving student success.

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From Good Intentions to Real Shortcomings: An Edtech Reckoning

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In 2017, reality took a massive swipe at the wobbly optimism of technology progressives. As the bubbly enthusiasm in the democratizing power of platforms like Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and Khan Academy quietly wanes, we’ve seen more attention to digital inequity like the homework gap and gender discrimination in coding careers.

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?Are We Recreating Segregated Education Online?

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People can now work through a series of lectures while they commute or complete coursework on a mobile phone between shifts. It’s worth reexamining how we’re recreating these educational walled gardens online—as we move from the heyday of MOOCs in 2012 to the gradual decline of open access courseware in 2017.

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2U’s ‘Third Chapter’ Begins With a $750M Acquisition of Trilogy Education

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Chip Paucek, CEO and co-founder of 2U “When we think about the trajectory of a learner, from college to a masters program to a MOOC or to a bootcamp, there is a lot of opportunity for universities to play a role across that spectrum and reinvent themselves,” Paucek tells EdSurge in an interview. “If

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What types of questions are you asking?

The Principal of Change

Think about it…Have you ever seen anyone in their teens on a mobile device, furiously typing away? September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon! What “iPhone Keyboarding” class did they take to learn that? You know the answer…they didn’t. They learned on their own.

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3 Misconceptions About Innovation in Education

The Principal of Change

Someone had to have a vision of what a “phone” could be, but when you look at the innovation of mobile technology, this has led to other innovations. March 9, 2017 An Idea to Innovation to Best Practice October 22, 2016 Technology does not equal innovation, but using technology is often crucial to innovation. IMMOOC.

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The 2017 Global Education Conference (Online) Starts Today! Join Us!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The 8th Annual Global Education Conference (GEC) All Online, All Free November 13 - 16, 2017 The Global Education Conference Network's eighth annual worldwide collaboration on globally-connected education starts today, Monday, November 13, and continues through this Thursday, November 16. Ping Gao, Ph.D.,