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Trends to watch in 2015: education and technology

Bryan Alexander

Here I’d like to identify trends from 2015 which seem likely to persist or grow over the next year. We still see the majority of campuses failing to formally recognize professors’ digital work. Yet we also see academic deans and provosts showing more interest in digital learning than their faculty.

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Digital Learning’s Pioneers Are Cautiously Optimistic

Edsurge

“A lot of the conversation about adaptive learning technology is still on the basis of opinion and epiphany as opposed to evidence,” Green says. They reflect what the creators think students should learn, and how students can learn it most efficiently. We have to build adaptive learners not adaptive learning,” he says.

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Why Should Students and Publishers Adapt eBooks in STEM Learning

Kitaboo on EdTech

And even they are moving towards creating digital learning resources. Another advantage that digital publishers have is that they can make use of analytics feature to identify the consumption patterns of the users. Here are 5 ways to use learning analytics in education. Digital Schools – Are they the future?

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?). The company sold The Financial Times and its stake in The Economist in 2015, for example. “Ohio State collaborates with Apple to launch digital learning initiative,” the university announced in October.

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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. The startup was later sold to Valore Education in 2015 , which was in turn acquired by Follett in 2016 , which in turn shut down the Boundless site in 2017. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.

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