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Looking to see where you might make some money in EdTech?

A look at C. Christensen's book on the Innovative University.

Michael Horn on barriers to blended learning

2 webinars of interest, including David Rose and Chris Dede doing tag-team on emerging technologies

interesting list of benefits college students can obtain from blended learning

An all-too-familiar tale of school districts hailing software as a "silver bullet" and then getting frustrated when student achievement gains didn't live up to expectations--even though teachers implemented it for a tiny fraction of the recommended use time...

What happens when online tutoring goes to school?

"Minerva..... is an entirely different pedagogical species. The San Francisco-based company aims at a soup-to-nuts undergraduate education, resulting in a traditional bachelor's degree, but all via the Web, and with all of the social cachet of the country's priciest sheepskin. ....Nelson, its 36-year-old founder, has no experience in education; .....But Nelson managed to not only score a huge investment from Benchmark - the same VC firm that backed the likes of eBay, Yelp, and Mint -but also persuaded a group of A-list luminaries, including former Harvard president Larry Summers, to be on its board of advisors.

interesting that the founder has no experience in education.... :/

My grandparents live far away, and it's really hard trying to explain computer stuff on the phone. It would be great if there were more efforts like this, hooking up high school/college students to help local seniors.

Great resources from this week EdTechTeacher iPad Summit. (ALL the presentation slides. Total score.)