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4 Reasons Why Tech Investors Should Spend Time on Campus
Basing your tech investment decisions on media coverage is a sure recipe for losing money. By the time the forces that determine whether a tech company thrives or dives make it into the press the smart money has already arrived or left.
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Why Digital Supplements Drive High-Priced Textbook Adoption
According to the Twenty Million Mind Foundation, an organization devoted to the "creation, sharing, and proliferation of more effective and affordable educational content by leveraging disruptive technologies, open educational resources, and new models for collaboration," the increasing cost of textbooks is an important factor in both rising student debt and high dropout rates.
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EdSurge's Venture Funding
EdSurge announced this week that it closed a $400,000 seed funding round led by the Washington Post Co (owners of Kaplan University) and NewSchools Venture Fund.
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Why Is Amazon's Textbook Rental Selection So Skimpy?
E-book textbook rentals sound like an amazing idea. Neither the textbook rental market or the digital textbook concept have brought the price of quality textbooks down as fast as we'd like. But combine digital with rental, and perhaps we've achieved some real disruption.
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4 Thoughts About Boundless, Publishers, and the Lawsuit
Have you checked out Boundless yet? The idea is either brilliant or criminal, depending on your perspective.
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4 Things We Learned About Instructure from Canvas' Bad Day
On Monday August 20th Instructure's cloud based learning management system (LMS) Canvas experienced "slow loads or timeouts on certain pages".
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How Big a Deal Is Apple's iTunes U Course Manager?
Let me explain how I understand Course Manager, as I remain somewhat confused about exactly what this does and how big a deal this platform might be.
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3 Goals and 3 Challenges for our Educational Technology Leaders
If higher ed is to change then our educational technology leaders must play a central role. This call for change in higher ed begs the question - what sort of change?