Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

It’s called the Teaching Online Podcast, or TOPcast , and co-host Thomas Cavanagh says he is driven by his quest to figure out one of the grand challenges of higher education: how to use technology to raise the quality of instruction while lowering costs. There are things that technology can do that humans can't.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2016

Facebook, like many digital technology companies, promises that in exchange for collecting your personal data – your name, your age, your gender, your photos, metadata on your photos, your location, your preferences, your browsing and clicking habits, your friends’ names – it will deliver “personalization.”

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

“Investors, particularly in China, are looking across the Pacific to check out innovative tools and models that they haven’t explored or implemented back home,” observes Victor Hu, Global Head of Education Technology and Services at Goldman Sachs’ investment banking division. Last year, at least 10 U.S.-based Limited Partner, Global Reach.

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Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

What’s coming up for education and technology over the next five years? A quick note before approaching these: remember that the technology items are only 1/3rd of the current report. Key Trends Accelerating Higher Education Technology Adoption. Rethinking How Institutions Work. Growing Focus on Measuring Learning.

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Bryan Alexander

AUGUST 17, 2018

Campus Technology offers a nice intro , so I’ll focus here on my very quick responses. ” Depending on how you count instances of the former, I’m seeing that all over the place now, driven partly by excitement over technological possibility and also by growing anxiety over the higher education crisis.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

From facial-recognition cameras to web and social media filtering software, surveillance technologies are finding their foothold in schools across America. But how much surveillance is acceptable, and what are the implications for students’ privacy rights? Ostensibly these tools are for the greater good—keeping kids safe. 12:30 p.m.

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Bryan Alexander

AUGUST 17, 2018

Campus Technology offers a nice intro , so I’ll focus here on my very quick responses. ” Depending on how you count instances of the former, I’m seeing that all over the place now, driven partly by excitement over technological possibility and also by growing anxiety over the higher education crisis.

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Kathy Schrock

APRIL 15, 2023

It certainly read like a robot had written in, IMHO. I especially disagreed with the section below because online tools should not be supplemental, but infused into the curriculum in a meaningful way to support teaching and learning. The paragraph above almost seems to contradict the paragraph before.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A key conversation focuses on weighing its benefits versus risks, and many education institutions have been quick to implement bans on the technology altogether for fears of plagiarism in written works. If we go back to the War of 1812 lecture example, we can see the value of adaptive learning if we instead embrace these tech advancements.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 8, 2015

This leads to the “innovator’s dilemma,” described recently in The Economist as “the difficult choice an established company faces when it has to choose between holding onto an existing market by doing the same thing a bit better, or capturing new markets by embracing new technologies and adopting new business models.”

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Software & Online ALMA TECHNOLOGIES, INC. www.getalma.com ) Alma Technologies has announced it is allowing any SQL-based business intelligence tool, such as Tableau and Jaspersoft, to access data from its modern, student information system and learning management system.

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techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

It includes a variety of assessments, multiple-choice and claim-evidence-reasoning assessments, along with extensive support for teachers such as embedded professional development and instructional resources to support a differentiated learning experience for each student. Each learning space is equipped with a 20’ 2” (6.16

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

” Sound the made-up-statistic klaxon because the MIT Technology Review parrots the BS claim that “65 percent of children entering primary school today will end up working in jobs that don’t currently exist, underscoring the need for new skills training using hands-on and exploratory learning techniques.”

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Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

” Via NBC News : “How to Thrive: Arianna Huffington Launches E-Learning Series.” ” (It’ll run on LinkedIn Learning , formerly Lynda.com , which means it’ll cost you $24.99 Via Campus Technology : “ Pearson Expands Textbook Rental Program.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. I think it is worthwhile, as the decade draws to a close, to review those stories and to see how much (or how little) things have changed. Predictions that were consistently wrong.)

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Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2017

Inside Higher Ed reports that “ National University is working to create a personalized education platform that combines three of the buzziest innovations in higher education – adaptive learning, competency-based learning and predictive analytics for student retention.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” Oh sure sure, this isn’t exactly education technology news, except for the part where Khosla invests in education technology companies and his wife founded the open education organization CK–12. “Open.”

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Hack Education

APRIL 14, 2017

” Via The New York Times : “ New Mexico Outlaws School ‘Lunch Shaming’ ” Via Buzzfeed : “ California Shows The Rest Of The Country How To Boost Kindergarten Vaccination Rates.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. The adaptive learning company has raised $16 million total.

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Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

“ How George Mason Became Koch ’s Academic Darling.” Is Teaching Second-Graders How to Ride Bikes. “ Uber-U is Already Here ” – “powered by Blockchain Technology.” Via Techcrunch : “ Lilwil ’s personalized learning engine teaches teachers how to teach.”

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