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The Winners and Filmstrips of An (Almost) Decade in Education Technology

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OER and open books. Digital badges. Three types of edtech joined the “filmstrip” category in this decade: Learning Management Systems , MOOC s, and digital badges. Digital badges are intended to signify authenticated knowledge and skills from informal learning environments. Learning analytics.

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An Index Of Online Courses For Teachers: Summer 2015

TeachThought - Learn better.

GSE3x: Introduction to Data Wise: A Collaborative Process to Improve Learning & Teaching. TESS101x: Enhancing Teacher Education Through OER. Locating, Creating, Licensing and Utilizing OERs. Digital Badge: Rockets to the Rescue! Go To Class | Next Session : 11th May, 2015. University of Oregon via Coursera.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

The US Department of Education released its “ #GoOpenDistrict Launch Packet ,” encouraging schools to use OER. Conference of Mayors Resolves to Support Digital Badging ,” says Edsurge. There’s some more research on badges and alternative credentials in the research section below. ” Rebrand.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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This Edsurge article – “ OER is Growing at Religious Colleges , But Raises Unique Challenges” – strikes me as a little weird, considering the long relationship between open education (the conference, at the very least) and former BYU professor David Wiley. ” Data, Surveillance, and Information Security.