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Towards Better Ed-Tech Procurement

by Len Scrogan

The Ed-tech procurement process can be frustrating, but a recent research study makes some recommendations on how to take some of the teeth out of its pernicious bite. In my previous two installments, we …

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The Ed-Tech Procurement Dance

by Len Scrogan

Research on procurement challenges within the ed market universe are few and far between, so I was delighted to see an interesting bit of research presented at this year’s ISTE ed tech conference. (The …

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Driving K12 Innovation: Tech Enablers

by Len Scrogan

The 2019 K12 Driving Innovation: Tech Enablers report, after multiple rounds of Delphi-like voting by expert panelists, has a lot to say about innovation-enabling factors specific to the educational marketplace. According to the report, …

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Driving Innovation: Ed Market Accelerators

by Len Scrogan

The 2019 K12 Driving Innovation: Accelerators report, after multiple rounds of Delphi-like voting by expert panelists, has a lot to say about trendsetting ed-tech developments, developments which serve speed up the rate of technology …

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Driving Innovation 2019: Ed Market Hurdles

by Len Scrogan

What are the main hurdles facing innovators in ed-tech? Which barriers tend to impede taking projects to scale in schools? What constraints can be expected to slow down our best-made sales plans? The COSN …

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VR and Haptics in Dental School: If You Build It, Will They Come?

by Len Scrogan

While attending the University of Colorado Systems’ spring technology symposium last week, I found myself in a conference session entitled “Shaping the Future of Dental Education Through Extended Reality Systems For Teaching, Training and …

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ISTE 2019 Preview

by Len Scrogan

The annual ISTE conference, the largest ed-tech conference in the U.S., is rapidly approaching, convening this year in Philadelphia. By examining the ISTE 2019 conference landscape through conference session analysis we can get a …

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Stories Worth Telling: VR @ TCEA 2019

by Len Scrogan

TCEA 2019, one of the largest educational technology conferences in the U.S., convened in San Antonio earlier this year and offered ah interesting perspective about the status and growth of virtual reality in the …

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Lenovo’s Push for Educational VR

by Len Scrogan

“Based on our research, 68% of teachers believed that VR will help overcome financial or physical barriers to learning.” According to Rick Henderson, Director of Global Education Solutions, who is leading worldwide efforts in …

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eSports and the Education Market

by Len Scrogan

Esports are coming to the education market. To be specific, they are trickling chiefly to the secondary level and higher education landscapes. The first sprouts appear as student clubs and other informal extra-curricular gatherings. …

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Chasing Better AR in Education

by Len Scrogan

In a distant corner of the massive exhibit hall, crowds of educators crammed themselves into a small booth, and this went on uninterrupted, day after day. It was difficult to get face time with …

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