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

Edsurge

The primary trends identified by the team were: adaptive learning, open education resources (OER), gamification and game-based learning, MOOCs, LMS and interoperability, mobile devices, and design. To those working in higher education, some of the trends presented by the team may not have come as a surprise. We need to move.to

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What’s the Right Price for an Online Degree?

Edsurge

Two recent trends are proving that virtual education can stall or reverse the nation’s continuously climbing tuition escalator. As prices rose at most post-secondary institutions over the last decades, tuition at these colleges fell. Any effort to reduce the cost of college is an admirable move that promises economic justice.

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Remote Work May Transform Higher Education. But Will Printers and Alexa Undermine Its Privacy?

Edsurge

An “uber trend” of remote work for higher education information security is coming, at a time when more connections are being forged between higher ed and other state data. Two: It’s the first Horizon Report to not simply forecast developments in several areas, but to declare an “uber trend.” The potential impacts, good and bad?

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US Edtech Investments Peak Again With $1.45 Billion Raised in 2018

Edsurge

Source: EdSurge One trend is clear: The dollars invested in the US edtech industry has ticked up steadily since 2011 (considering 2015 as an aberration). On the whole, bigger but fewer deals is a trend common across all U.S. Investment Trends Breaking down the $1.45 Now many MOOCs are embedded within these institutions.

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In Evolving World of Microcredentials, Students, Colleges and Employers Want Different Things

Edsurge

These trends raise a host of questions about the future of credentialing. Nicola Soares, vice president and managing director for Kelly Educational Staffing at Kelly Services, who has her finger on the pulse of employment and hiring trends. Read highlights from the conversation below (which have been edited and condensed for clarity).

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Fewer Deals, More Money: U.S. Edtech Funding Rebounds With $1.2 Billion in 2017

Edsurge

These diverging patterns are reflected in the graph below, with the upward trend in funding total (green bars) and downward slope in dealflow (red lines). Yet at 126 deals, the number of fundraises in 2017 is also at its lowest since 2011. In fact, the number of deals has been on a steady downward slope since 2013. Source: EdSurge.

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Trends to watch in 2015: education and technology

Bryan Alexander

Here I’d like to identify trends from 2015 which seem likely to persist or grow over the next year. I’m building on previous posts about trends in technology and educational contexts , plus my FTTE report, naturally. Educational technology trends. And the MOOC numbers look like they’re rising.

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