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Libraries Look to Big Data to Measure Their Worth—And Better Help Students

Edsurge

Visits to the library have shot up from 108,000 in 2008 to 280,000 last year. We are not tracking what they read,” he said, meaning they don’t try to isolate which particular article was chosen. It’s really central to the student-learning experience. That’s a massive increase at an open-admissions university,” says Bearman.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

” Re-reading that article now makes me cringe. I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow. Edmodo was one of the early stars of the most recent resurgence in ed-tech startup founding and funding (circa 2008 onward, that is).

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Higher education technology predictions for 2014

Mark Smithers

By the end of the year expect the start of articles on Inside Higher Education complaining about open badges with many more to come in 2015 as recalcitrant faculty start to become aware of ‘micro credentialing’ as it will be badged. This idea has been bubbling along for almost six years since Dave Cormier wrote about the concept in 2008.

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Higher education technology predictions for 2014

Mark Smithers

By the end of the year expect the start of articles on Inside Higher Education complaining about open badges with many more to come in 2015 as recalcitrant faculty start to become aware of ‘micro credentialing’ as it will be badged. This idea has been bubbling along for almost six years since Dave Cormier wrote about the concept in 2008.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, Um, they do.) Course Signals. Channel One (and the Unsinkable Chris Whittle).

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