Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2019

In an unusual move intended to shake up how college teaching is done around the world, Carnegie Mellon University today announced that it will give away dozens of the digital-learning software tools it has built over more than a decade—and make their underlying code available for anyone to see and modify.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 20, 2019

Student information systems, online gradebooks, electronic formative assessment tools, and data warehouses are all examples of technologies that help educators input, manage, analyze, and present student learning data (Wayman, Stringfield, & Yakimowski, 2004). The one question I’m asking at ISTE 2013.

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Hack Education

JUNE 15, 2017

“I was not a lab rat,” she wrote in an op-ed in The Guardian in 2004. This is the story we hear and we tell about computers, about algorithmic systems like adaptive learning, predictive analytics, personalization. None of these are true. But that’s the story that gets told nonetheless. Enhance, not replace.

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Robotics Company Technology System 67

Hack Education

MAY 26, 2016

It’s also a matter of a $40 million civil suit against Trump University, a business that Donald Trump and two associates founded in 2004. But it did offer courses in real estate, entrepreneurship, and wealth management via, yes, technology-enhanced learning – that is, via Web-based courses. How much of ed-tech is humbug?

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