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If you are new here, you might want to subscribe to the RSS feed for updates and/or follow me on Twitter. Info on how to contact me is on the About page. Thanks for visiting! Online learning. As the Ed-Tech Market Grows, What Voice Do Educators Have? It's that time of the year when tech journalists like myself start to review everything that's happened over the last twelve months so we can write our obligatory "this year in tech news" stories.
And my, what an interesting year it has been for education technology. We've seen new hardware (least of which, of course, the iPad), new software (with new education startups galore), new ed-tech programs (at schools, at libraries), more broadband penetration (well, slightly more), and more widespread adoption of technology tools -- by students and educators, in the classroom and at home. All of this has had a big impact on "the business of ed-tech," and according to statistics released last week by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), the market for educational software and digital content has reach a new high: some $7.5 billion for the U.S. alone.
Yet it feels like 2011 marked a shift -- maybe not in hardware manufacturing, but certainly on the software side.