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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. To those working in higher education, some of the trends presented by the team may not have come as a surprise.

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Ed-Tech Startup Conference Pushes Boundaries

Ed Tech from the Ground Up

Over the years, LearnLaunch's Across Boundaries conference has engendered conversations on everything from STEM learning to augmented reality. The 2017 conference in Boston is coming up. The post Ed-Tech Startup Conference Pushes Boundaries appeared first on Market Brief.

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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

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It’s hard to remember now, but many industry colleagues felt edtech was a frothy market in 2017. MOOCs topped the cycle in 2012. The prior year, my former chief Bill Gates headlined ASU GSV and received a standing ovation for championing technology’s power to transform teaching and learning. OPMs topped the cycle in 2015.

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?Why an iTunes Model for Online Learning Is Bad for Educators

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In 2017, Stephen DeRue, dean of University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, wrote a Forbes column arguing that, in order to make higher education more affordable, we needed to move towards an “iTunes model for education.” “In In the future,” he wrote, “I envision three tiers of education that look a lot like the music industry of today.

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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.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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Newkirk believes that his model will work for other STEM fields, including chemistry and physics. Large-scale online courses called MOOCs (massive open online courses), for instance, were touted as possible low-cost replacements for residential colleges , but proved to have completion rates of less than 10%.

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

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Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2017: The Stories We’ve Been Told. 2017 has been an extraordinary year for education news and for technology news – two areas that provide crucial context for everything that happens with education technology. Beyond the MOOC. MOOCs and Anti-MOOCs. The Compulsion for Data.