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Some highlights this week: The Encyclopaedia Brittanica celebrates a 250 year birthday and 25 year digital anniversary, experts and founders make 2019 EdTech predictions, and the LSAC partners with Microsoft to digitize the LSAT.

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December 10 marks a big milestone for one of the most widely used educational resources in the world. On this day in 1768, publication began in Edinburgh Scotland of the first version of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. A full 225 years after, (25 years ago today), the encyclopedia first went digital, hopping on the eb.com universal resource location of the World Wide Web. Read more.

Millions of people around the world are already using Duolingo. While it works well enough and offers instruction in many different languages for free, Duolingo is by no means the only language learning platform on the market. Depending on your specific needs, it may also not be the best option. If you’re hoping to learn a new language, here are the four best online language... Read more.

While most affairs that once required ink and paper now occur in digital environments, some functions, like standardized test taking, are difficult to convert. On Monday, however, the Law School Admission Council (LSAC) announced that, in partnership with Microsoft, they will begin to offer the LSAT test exclusively in digital format beginning July 2019. Test takers will use Microsoft Surface... Read more.

All signs indicate that eLearning is well positioned to have another strong year in 2019. If the future of eLearning once appeared to rest on virtual reality, however, other new technologies, including artificial intelligence and blockchain, now seem most likely to transform the sector in the near future. It also seems likely that over the coming year, the eLearning sector will see major players,especially on the LMS... Read more.

During the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, educational psychologists Walter Burke Barbe and Neil Fleming began to popularize a theory of educational psychology. They argued that each individual learns in different styles. Some students might respond best to visually-imparted info, others dealt better with hearing someone explain a topic. Others still preferred a spatial, tactile,... Read More.

Over the past year, eLearning Inside has interviewed dozens of founders, investors, and researchers in the edtech sector. As we look forward to 2019, we decided to reach out to some of the people we talked to in 2018 along with a few new voices to gather predictions on edtech for the coming year. In this two-part feature, we share five experts’ predictions for edtech in 2019. Read more.

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