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EdTech
Report: AI in tertiary education
The future of digital identity: a Lifelong Learning Identity perspective - OpenAthens
Don’t look up: Ignoring the looming crisis in public education | BERA
Placing employability at the heart of further education | Jisc
Guide to Critical Thinking
Complete review of textbooks underway - Chinadaily.com.cn
Meanwhile, in China...
A shattered consensus: the end of college for everyone | Bryan Alexander
AI Empowers Scalable Personalized Learning and Knowledge Sharing | Learning Solutions Magazine
Scratch Can Even Do Linux Kernel
Opinion: EdTech promised a learning revolution — but didn't deliver | World Economic Forum
Global EdTech Funding 2022 - Half Year Update – HolonIQ
Artificial intelligence in education: what issues do we need to start considering now? | Jisc
The Edtech Podcast - for global education innovation and edtech
Denmark is banning Chromebooks in schools — here's why I'm on board | Laptop Mag
Turns out data sovereignty is important to some.
Why We Won't Raise Our Kids in Suburbia - YouTube
Are cars EdTech?
The influence of ed-tech in Australia’s schools, before and after the Covid-19 pandemic | The Educator K/12
How much control does your school have over its data? | The Educator K/12
Enclouding education | code acts in education
Aotearoa’s EdTech companies are taking on the world | The Spinoff
Kami named one of the most influential companies in the world - Idealog
#246 - Innovation in early years — The Edtech Podcast
Who Is the Theranos of Education? | EdSurge News
RedCritter Launches CritterCoin, the First EdTech Solution to Leverage NFTs
AI in Education: Pedagogy first - enhancing collaborative learning | Jisc
Donald Clark Plan B: Futurelearn may not be a going concern
Google makes it easier to access popular EdTech tools directly in Classroom
E-learning is a burden for the deaf and hard of hearing | Scientific Reports
Pearson plans to sell its textbooks as NFTs | Publishing | The Guardian
Educational publisher’s move into non-fungible tokens is intended to claw back some of the income lost to secondhand sales
Coursera and 2U: MOOCs are Designed to Compete with Google AdWords. –
MOOCs are more or less explicitly considered to be useful primarily as marketing tools rather than educational experiences... MOOCs have become advertising tools to attract students into more lucrative degree programs run by OPMs. As more degree programs have gone online (driven, in part, by the success of the OPMs themselves), the cost of advertising using relevant search keywords Google AdWords has gone up. Because demand for them has gone up.
MOOCs are attempting to disrupt Google AdWords in education.