Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

If few students answer the question correctly, the software can flag the professor, or the textbook author, to consider revising the content to make it clearer. But Newkirk wanted to improve students’ motivation as well, so he brought in Mark Lepper, a psychology professor at Stanford who has studied how best to keep learners on task.

Education 209

Education Learning Software Knewton 209

Gaggle Speaks

MARCH 25, 2015

Last week, during the 2015 CoSN Annual Conference , I participated in the CoSN Camp FailFest where leaders in education shared professional failures in order to see future successes. When I started Gaggle back in 1999, we were free email for students. Almost all of those companies went out of business. The list goes on and on.

EdTech 40

EdTech Differentiated Instruction Gamification MOOC 40

Gaggle Speaks

MARCH 25, 2015

Last week, during the 2015 CoSN Annual Conference , I participated in the CoSN Camp FailFest where leaders in education shared professional failures in order to see future successes. When I started Gaggle back in 1999, we were free email for students. Almost all of those companies went out of business. The list goes on and on.

EdTech 40

EdTech Differentiated Instruction Gamification MOOC 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That).

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

JANUARY 5, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ CSU signs deal to record, broadcast classroom lectures,” says the San Francisco Examiner. Via Boing Boing : “Automated book-culling software drives librarians to create fake patrons to ‘check out’ endangered titles.” JOY has raised $1.5

Education 47

Education Pearson Facebook Company 47

Hack Education

DECEMBER 8, 2016

“The 2015 PISA Results: What Do They Mean?” million in charges from a Minnesota company over a software system that repeatedly failed during mandatory statewide elementary school testing.” ” Via the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette : “Former Pitt student, key figure in Chinese-U.S. “U.S.

Education 40

Education Report E-rate Company 40