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The Dept. of Ed. Reorganization Plan is Out. Where Is the Office of EdTech?
The Trump Administration on Thursday announced a proposal to overhaul the organizational structure of federal departments. Among the ideas: merge the Department of Education with the Department of Labor to form a single Cabinet agency, which is being called the Department of Education and the Workforce...
By Jenny Abamu and Sydney Johnson Jun 21, 2018
Can You Put a Score On a Student’s ‘Agility’ or ‘Diligence’? A New Service Tries It
Companies that make learning software now gather unprecedented amounts of data on student behavior as students do things like read online textbooks or study for tests with digital review tools...
By Jeffrey R. Young Jun 21, 2018
Can an AR and VR Pilot Program From Google Prepare Kids for Future Careers?
Virtual reality has been the driving force behind Google’s Expeditions app since it launched three years ago. And recently it’s added another layer of “reality” to the virtual field trip tool—AR, or augmented reality to be precise, which take the form of features such as narration, annotations, and a new “solo mode,” going on virtual trips without a guide...
By Jenny Abamu Jun 21, 2018
This Isn’t the First Time the White House Attempted to Cut the Dept. of Ed. But Things Are Different Now.
When Betsy DeVos first took the helm at the United States Department of Education back in February 2017, pundits, researchers and even EdSurge weighed in on the event—wondering how the new leader would run the show...
By Jenny Abamu Jun 21, 2018
Facebook Expands Digital Training Initiative with College Partnerships in Chicago
In 2017 Facebook claimed more than 4 million companies advertise on its platform, and more than 500,000 companies advertise on Instagram. Many social media marketers have learned their relatively-new trade on the job, but the tech giant now wants to train the next generation of marketers and entrepreneurs on how businesses can use social platforms—specifically theirs...
By Sydney Johnson Jun 20, 2018
How Blockbuster MOOCs Could Shape the Future of Teaching
There isn’t a New York Times bestseller list for online courses, but perhaps there should be. After all, so-called MOOCs, or massive open online courses, were meant to open education to as many learners as possible, and in many ways they are more like books (digital ones, packed with videos and interactive quizzes) than courses...
By Jeffrey R. Young Jun 19, 2018
