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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

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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. NYSE: COUR), Udemy, Inc. Udemy (NASDAQ: UDMY) is down 52.4 LMS and Digital Learning topped the hype cycle in 2001 (a few years before Blackboard went public).

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?The Future of Online Learning Is Offline: What Strava Can Teach Digital Course Designers

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Quickly I found that even as I logged runs on Strava daily, I struggled to find the time to log into platforms like Coursera, Udemy or Udacity to finish courses produced by my fellow instructional designers. Why was the fitness app so “sticky” as opposed to the online learning platforms? What was happening? I could hardly blame them.

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?A Starter Kit for Instructional Designers

Edsurge

Designing online learning experiences is essential to training employees, mobilizing customers, serving students, building marketing channels, and sustaining business models. But they can also be creating learning apps, museum exhibits, or the latest educational toy. Lesson 1: Start with a deep understanding of your learners.

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The Professor Who Quit His Tenured Job to Make Podcasts and Lecture Videos

Edsurge

He made the move to his new phase of scholarly life during a rush of enthusiasm for so-called MOOCs, Massive Open Online Courses, that big-name colleges were starting to offer low-cost higher education to a wider audience. The first year I put my courses [on Udemy, an online course market], I had about 12 hours worth of content.

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Online Education: Will it Make Us Smarter? #SXSWedu

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Small start ups and giant MOOCS. Adult learning space, higher Ed, and K-12 all have different needs so they create different markets. Building learning content that students can access on their own. Udemy - 80% male because focuses on tech space. Adult learners adding to skill sets or learning about hobbies.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

” She posits gaming as the new site for “modern learning,” with an emphasis on skills training and data-driven self-improvement. There is much to learn from the Meeker report. There may be no better example of this in 2017 than “personalized learning.” It’s just not what you think.”

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

DreamBox Learning (adaptive learning): $130 million. DadaABC (English language learning): $100 million. DadaABC.com (English language learning): $608.9 EverFi (“critical skills” training): $251 million. Knewton (adaptive learning): $182.3 Age of Learning (educational apps): $181.5

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