Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2020

The deal marks the latest in a series of acquisitions involving digital courseware, the industry parlance for online products that leverage data and technology to personalize the course instruction and feedback that each student receives. student and teaching assistant, began building his own homegrown adaptive tutoring technologies.

Pearson 104

Pearson Adaptive Learning Knewton OER 104

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.

Software 165

Software Digital Learning Sakai Learning 165

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).

Social Media 176

Social Media Learning System Adaptive Learning 176

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.

Robotics 67

Robotics Company Technology System 67

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

This year, the Horizon Report’s Higher Education Edition does include graphics with some historical data, demonstrating how some technologies and topics appear and reappear and how some simply disappear altogether from the horizon. Of course, the Horizon Report dates back to 2004, so this is only a partial look back at its own history.

Learning Analytics 68

Learning Analytics LMS Robotics Trends 68