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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Or the company will have to start charging for the software. In 2012, Pearson, Cengage Learning, and Macmillan Higher Education sued Boundless Learning, claiming that the open education textbook startup had “stolen the creative expression of their authors and editors, violating their intellectual-property rights.”

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From Mexico to China: Why the World is Interested in the United States Edtech Market

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He says the tools from Spain have quality content for Spanish speakers, and for English tools, tech providers such as Pearson and Mcgraw Hill have sufficed in the past, but he is looking for more STEM learning tools now. “I Limin Chen “They want adaptive learning tools, STEM products and learning management systems,” says Chen. “If

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Paying to Turn in Homework? ASU Prof's Viral Email Raises Questions About Online Textbook Model

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Last Thursday, he sent an email to students explaining that he was being let go because he pushed back against two university policies that he saw as unethical. On Amazon, the book alone sells for $148 without the MindTap software. The good story on this is that prices are coming down on our learning materials,” he says.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed. Pearson is Not a Platform. Pearson does not have a platform.

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Education Technology and the Ideology of Personalization

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And “personalization” is the underlying promise of the new education software Facebook is itself building. Basecamp is essentially a learning management system (with the adjective “personalized” appended to it). “A truly terrible deal,” says Cathy O’Neil , author of Weapons of Math Destruction.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via The Wall Street Journal : “More Schools Are Buying ‘ Active-Shooter ’ Insurance Policies.” The company: RIB Software SE. ” Via The Wall Street Journal : “Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘ No Experience Necessary ’ ” Contests and Awards. .”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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billion it agreed to pay Apple/Pearson for iPads, but what do I know). Reason: ‘Using Appliances’ ” Here’s the Chalkbeat headline : “New software aims to make teachers' jobs ‘much easier’ in Indianapolis Public Schools.” Learn-to-code startup Piper has raised $2.1 “Can U.S.