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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. He and other library leaders, however, say that it is important for the library to “have a seat at the learning analytics table” to help resolve just that kind of question. It’s really central to the student-learning experience.

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‘Our Technology Is Our Ideology’: George Siemens on the Future of Digital Learning

Edsurge

A researcher, theorist, educator, Siemens is the digital learning guy. He’s credited with co-teaching the first MOOC in 2008, introduced the theory of “connectivism”—the idea that knowledge is distributed across digital networks—and spearheaded research projects about the role of data and analytics in education.

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Thoughts on Continuous Improvement and OER

Iterating Toward Openness

For example, we know that highly effective learning materials can help learners reach the same levels of mastery in half the time compared to materials that follow a traditional textbook design ( Lovett et al., There are myriad ways in which education needs to be improved.

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Higher education technology predictions for 2014

Mark Smithers

This idea has been bubbling along for almost six years since Dave Cormier wrote about the concept in 2008. I expect that learning analytics will be entering Gartner’s technology trough this year. What will be less big in 2014?

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Higher education technology predictions for 2014

Mark Smithers

This idea has been bubbling along for almost six years since Dave Cormier wrote about the concept in 2008. I expect that learning analytics will be entering Gartner’s technology trough this year. What will be less big in 2014?

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

Edmodo was one of the early stars of the most recent resurgence in ed-tech startup founding and funding (circa 2008 onward, that is). million in venture capital from high profile names like LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and from firms active in ed-tech investing such as Learn Capital. The company has raised some $77.5

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Revolution in Higher Education: chapter 4

Bryan Alexander

In fact, the frequency of treating alone accounts for most of the variation in learning outcomes…” Plug this into the digital world, and. “learning analytics will certainly be in widespread use by the time [this book] is published” (1796). ” (2247).