Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 2, 2019

But how do they compete with resources like MOOCs and OERs that have made high quality course content from respected university professors available for free? When students started migrating towards used textbooks, rentals, MOOCs and OER due to the high prices of printed textbooks, it affected the revenues of traditional book publishers.

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OER Education MOOC Adaptive Learning 16

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2016

For over a decade, plenty of time and dollars have been poured into encouraging the use of open educational resources (OER). In 2007 the Hewlett Foundation’s funding helped create OER Commons. From my experience, the answers usually are: OER resources are in silos. Last year, the U.S. Many of the silos are poorly organized.

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OER Resources Common Core Education 60

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

.” In his book, Srnicek identifies five kinds of platforms: advertising platforms (like Google and Facebook), cloud platforms (like Salesforce and Amazon Web Services), industrial platforms (like GE and Siemens), product platforms (like Spotify), and lean platforms (like Uber and AirBnB). Subscribe to their blog.

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 63

Edsurge

MAY 3, 2017

Luminaries in the edtech industry, including Richard Culatta (ISTE CEO and former director of the Office of Educational Technology at the U.S. godfather” of OER and Chief Academic Officer of Lumen Learning), trace their roots here. 2:00PM: TrumpED: How Will #45 Change the Learning and Work Landscape?

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Coursera Knewton Udemy EdTech 101

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. ” According to WCET , “Developing Effective Courses Using Adaptive Learning Begins with Proper Alignment.” Via The LA Times : “ L.A.

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Education ProctorU Company Report 53

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. 3D printing, The Economist pronounced in 2012 , was poised to bring about the third industrial revolution. (I

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Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

.” From the story: “Online education company Udacity plans to branch out of its core technology market to meet growing demand for digitally-skilled workers in areas such as banking and the car industry, its co-founder told Reuters as the company launched in Germany.”

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Education MOOC Company Report 49

Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

The NAACP endorses OER. Edsurge’s Jeff Young and Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill both asked industry analyst Trace Urdan for his take. ” I’m more interested in hearing about segregation and state laws in Mississippi than the adaptive learning software a school is using. ” Oh.

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Education E-rate Company Kaplan 47

Hack Education

JULY 21, 2017

Via The San Francisco Chronicle : “ Dev Bootcamp couldn’t tough out industry shakeout.” Edsurge on “Bridging the School-to-Business Gap: What Public Schools Can Learn From Industry.” Venture capitalist Vinod Khosla insists that “Venture capital has less sexual harassment than other industries.”

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Education LMS Robotics Coursera 46

Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

“ VR is gaining ground in the academic world and the 3D industry,” says Techcrunch , so it must be true. ” “Of OER and Platforms: Five Years Later” by Lumen Learning’s David Wiley. Adeptemy , an adaptive learning company, has raised $3.48 ” (I admit. million total.

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