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Different MOOC's launch like edX, Udacity, and Coursera bring large-scale courses online. This created new access to education and the future of universities. With MOOC's on the rise this gave way to different companies looking to start their own online education courses as this become part of the future of learning.
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Large scale device rollouts due to affordable Chromebooks. School's saw opportunity for cheap device learning. Being in the tail end of elementary school during this rollout you could sense the shift of education as we know it. Schools began to heavily lean on chromebooks for curriculum and this began to take away from the independence teachers had on their teaching.
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Google Classroom creates a new way of grading, creating new assignments through google systems, and new collaboration amongst students. This was the beginning of a large-scale transition to "cloud-based" classroom management.
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Flipped classrooms on the rise, teachings at home, active, hands-on learning in class. The ability to do this was through new online sources and teacher facilitation. This helped with students who needed more engagement in the classroom as class-time was directed to application and discussion rather than instruction.
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Through online learning aids like McGraw-Hill (high school and college courses) and Duolingo (adaptive language learning worldwide) there became a rise in more personalized instruction. However this came at a high cost monetarily as these sources were not typically free and made students have to pay for textbooks. There was a high level on accountability on the students to actually read what was assigned rather than doing it in a classroom.
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Due to Covid-19 this forced worldwide school closures making teachers find new platforms like zoom essential to remote learning. This made Google Classroom have another surge of importance as this was the only way for middle school and high school to facilitate assignments and things of that sort. This shined light on where digital education could fall short but also completely changed the outlook of educational technology.