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Renaming My Blog

Iterating Toward Openness

But I quickly ended up moving to WordPress – and opencontent.org – in February, 2005. At that point I renamed the blog Iterating Toward Openness, and later chose a new byline: Holy smokes! That’s 15 years ago now. How time flies. I’m sure there are many things I’m forgetting.

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The Future of Education and VR

Veative

By building on students’ natural aptitude for learning and appealing to their insatiable curiosity, Veative , a global provider of affordable, immersive learning solutions, delivers the necessary last mile push that makes all the difference between an ordinary education and an extraordinary one. Data and intelligent analytics.

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Tonight - A True History of the MOOC

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

He has published numerous articles both online and in print, including The Future of Online Learning (1998), Learning Objects (2000), Resource Profiles (2003), and E-Learning 2.0 I am involved in the design, development and maintainance of online educational programs, and in teaching and research of the learning experiences.

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What is the role of the teacher in the online classroom? Connectivism might provide an answer

Neo LMS

By learning together in a learning community, students have the opportunity to extend and deepen their learning experience, test out new ideas by sharing them with a supportive group, and receive critical and constructive feedback.” ( Palloff & Pratt 2005 ).

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As Colleges Move Away From the SAT, Will Admissions Algorithms Step In?

Edsurge

A Boston Globe analysis of more than 100 high school valedictorians from the classes of 2005 to 2007 found that 25 percent didn’t get a bachelor’s degree within six years. What the machine can do that human beings can’t do is look at thousands of inputs,” says Matt Guenin, CCO at ElectrifAi, a machine learning analytics company.

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Ed-Tech in a Time of Trump

Hack Education

One of the “hot new trends” in education technology is “learning analytics” – this idea that if you collect enough data about students that you can analyze it and in turn algorithmically direct students towards more efficient and productive behaviors, institutions towards more efficient and productive outcomes.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” [Insert Course Signals learning analytics joke here.]. The map draws on only 100,000 articles from 180 journals and only dates back to 2005 because that is the grand sum of education technology research. million, according to a national preschool report released Thursday.