EdTech

We Know Why You Hate Online Learning – and It Has Nothing to Do With Quality – EduGeek Journal
We Know Why You Hate Online Learning – and It Has Nothing to Do With Quality – EduGeek Journal
The real reason? It’s all about the power and control. Leaders can’t control their students, faculty, and staff remotely like they can on campus. And that control not only brings them a power trip – it also brings in big $$$ for schools when they can manipulate students into spending more money on campus.
·edugeekjournal.com·
We Know Why You Hate Online Learning – and It Has Nothing to Do With Quality – EduGeek Journal
Global EdTech Venture Capital Report - Full Year 2021 – HolonIQ
Global EdTech Venture Capital Report - Full Year 2021 – HolonIQ
EdTech Venture Capital reached 3x pre-pandemic investment levels in 2021, accelerating startups around the world with over $20B of funding. Fueled by a massive US and EU investment surge and India's growth charging onwards, collectively global growth covered an $8B investment collapse from China and managed to set record growth for the sector.
·holoniq.com·
Global EdTech Venture Capital Report - Full Year 2021 – HolonIQ
A review of UK Online Education in 2021 — Neil Mosley
A review of UK Online Education in 2021 — Neil Mosley
Top quote: "Microcredentials are becoming like teenage sex - everyone is talking about it, nobody really knows how to do it and everyone thinks everyone else is doing it"
·neilmosley.com·
A review of UK Online Education in 2021 — Neil Mosley
Social Media: Time for a Break? - AACE
Social Media: Time for a Break? - AACE
The problem is not the Internet or social media in a broad sense but rather specifically the use of the algorithms. When Google and Facebook and others went to the advertising business model anytime anybody did anything, anytime anybody connected with somebody else it was financed by third party whose motivation was to manipulate what happened. Then the whole business model was about how to manipulate more and more. What that results in is people being directed rather than exploring and that makes the world small. That is fundamental. You cannot make these algorithms better. You can’t say we want a better form of constant incremental manipulation of every person. The whole concept from the start is poison (Lanier, 2021, Honestly Podcast).
·aace.org·
Social Media: Time for a Break? - AACE