Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

More than two decades ago, when I was hired at Stevens Institute of Technology, as dean of web-based distance learning—a quaint title for what is now known as online learning—few tools were available to help faculty migrate their on-campus courses online. Launched in 2013, XuetangX, the Chinese platform in third place, claims 18 million.

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Online Learning MOOC Learning Coursera 125

Learning with 'e's

MARCH 3, 2014

"If you can imagine it, you can invent it" - unknown I recall Nicky Hockley''s keynote for the Reform Symposium 2013. She argued that the future is found in the present, and that many of the top science fiction films feature technology that already is in existence. One technology that caught my eye was the universal translator.

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Learning E-rate Digital Divide Microsoft 59

Educator Innovator

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Digital Learning Day (DLD), held on February 5, immersed kids from coast to coast in activities like tinkering with robotics, penning blog posts, and painting digital canvases. For many schools, incorporating technology is a journey that’s been years in the making—and there are still plenty of uncharted changes to come.

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Digital Learning E-rate Broadband Learning 28

Educator Innovator

JANUARY 6, 2014

I discovered that teachers at the Darunsikkhalai School for Innovative Learning (DSIL) in Bangkok, Thailand expressed the same concerns as librarians in Philadelphia, when I visited last week with researchers from Stanford University’s Transformative Learning Technologies Lab (TLTL).

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Libraries Groups E-rate Tools 28

Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye the week of March 13, 2017 – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. Tagged on: March 18, 2017 G Suite for Education Now Open for Personal Google Accounts, Outside Domains | Campus Technology → Raises privacy questions.

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EdTech Chromebook Laptops iPad 170

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

The end of the day today is the final deadline to get in a proposal to speak at next week''s free and online 2013 Global STEMx Education Conference (STEMxCon.com) , September 19 - 21. Content Curation as a Context for Learning - Eric Walters, Director of Technology Innovation and Education: Why and how they belong together - William J.

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STEM Maker Movement MOOC Common Core 47

Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “A Pennsylvania judge has banned fraternity Pi Delta Psi from the state for a decade, a punishment for a hazing death in 2013, and an unprecedented step likely to rock the national Greek system.”

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Education Company Blackboard Kaplan 43