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Nope! Why adaptive software is not the same as personalized learning

eSchool News

Sorry, adaptive software is not the same as personalized learning. This is what Education Secretary Arne Duncan was talking about in 2010 when he called for “ transformational productivity reforms that can also boost student outcomes. Next page: Where adaptive software plays into personalized learning).

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Carnegie Learning Gets a Makeover After Private Equity Investment

Edsurge

In addition to math products, Carnegie Learning will now also encompass existing products under New Mountain Learning’s portfolio. We’re trying to take what we do well in cognitive science and adaptive learning, and bring that to the content that New Mountain has.” We’re not trying to smash a bunch of things together.

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They Said it Better Than I Can

Mistakengoal.com

higher education e.g., What Faculty Should Know About Adaptive Learning , State of the Anglosphere’s Higher Education LMS Market: 2013 Edition. Despite the occasional over-the-top writing, this blog was an excellent source of information about the recent kerfuffle about Purdue University’s learning analytics software.

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Cash Awards Honor Faculty and Institutions for Innovative Use of Digital Tools

Edsurge

In 2010, Northern Arizona University began using a math placement test for incoming students and found many of them struggled to achieve needed proficiency. Fulé and her colleague Don Carter, the university’s director of e-learning, launched the. Much like Fulé did.

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October 24 - Ed Tech News, Our Weekly Podcast, and the Hack Education Roundup!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

of Text-Messaging at School A Big Step for Gesture-Based Learning? The presentation software SlideRocket announced SlideRocket EDU this week, making its tools available to students and teachers via the Google Apps Marketplace. decreases from the fourth quarter of 2010.

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Tipping point: Can Summit put personalized learning over the top?

The Hechinger Report

The change is part of a nationwide pilot program Walsh joined this year, one that could indicate just how deeply and how quickly the personalized-learning trend will penetrate the average classroom. Many watched instructional videos or worked with adaptive-learning software that adjusted lessons based on each student’s proficiency.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning. It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security.

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