Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Are any education technologies, for that matter? If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2016

But without proof, Monroe, vice president of academic innovation and support at Ivy Tech Community College, and her colleagues are searching in the dark to find the right tools that faculty can use to improve learning outcomes for the more than 200,000 students in the Indiana community college system. Does it mean adaptive software?

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Edsurge

JULY 22, 2016

Babson Survey , the proportion of academic leaders who report that online learning is critical for long-term institutional growth has grown from 49 percent in 2002 to 71 percent in 2015, and institutions are investing in edtech products to support digital learning. An evaluation of adaptive learning products by.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2017

education technology startups ebbed in 2016, dipping roughly 30 percent in deal volume and value from the previous year. But as some disappointed investors have learned last year, the actual market value and performance behind “unicorns” may be as illusory as their nickname. 2016 US Edtech Funding Totals $1 Billion.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

According to our data, colleges whose students use the software have seen, on average, a 3.25 D2L, provider of a learning management system, was started by a student at the University of Waterloo. Adaptive learning tool Smart Sparrow traces its origins to a graduate student in Australia.

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Edsurge

MARCH 24, 2017

First the numbers: In the past year, we have published more than 300 articles about the shifting trends in higher ed, education technology and digital learning. In 2016 we added one of our own to the mix: EdSurge Independent. (Hint: That’s why last week, we asked you for some direct feedback on how we’re doing.)

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Consider the following developments in artificial intelligence: In 2016, the Associated Press began outsourcing its minor-league baseball dispatches to a company called Automated Insights. Technology offered us a chance to be a partner. Recently I wrote " What If Your Co-Teacher is a Computer?

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2019

Goegan also argued that he was forced to fail 30 percent of his students, which he said university officials wanted so that an adaptive-learning project being developed for other sections of the economics course would be made to look good by comparison. On Amazon, the book alone sells for $148 without the MindTap software.

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Edsurge

JULY 3, 2017

Peak Mathematics uses Pearson’s MyMathTest, an online homework tool that has adaptive technology that personalizes the content and pacing for each student. So he struck up a partnership with Cengage Learning, a Boston-based education technology and information company. 2016 Institutional Awards. Apply here.

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MindShift

AUGUST 11, 2016

A group of recent studies on technology in education, across a wide range of real-world settings, have come up far short of a ringing endorsement. The studies include research on K-12 schools and higher ed, both blended learning and online, and show results ranging from mixed to negative. NPR Ed has covered adaptive learning before.

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Marketplace K-12

JANUARY 25, 2016

The latest round of deals in the school marketplace underscores investors’ and ed-tech providers’ burgeoning interest in data analytics and instructional technologies. The program will begin with selected ventures in May 2016. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. In a recent statement, Malvern, Pa.-based

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Instead of learning from a combination of books, lectures and software, as students do at most schools, the primary mode of instruction for kids attending Quest to Learn is games. “I never want to make claims that games writ-large for any kid—under any circumstances—teach these sort of skills.”

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Hack Education

AUGUST 23, 2016

But when one controls – albeit temporarily – a domain name and a bit of server space, I contend, we act in resistance to an Internet culture and an Internet technology and an Internet business model in which we control little to nothing. Increasingly, we work for free for major Internet technology companies, on their platforms.

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MindShift

JUNE 7, 2016

” The education technology industry, meanwhile, keeps making it easier for teachers to record and share information on students. Software also collects information on students all by itself. Software also collects information on students all by itself. Copyright 2016 NPR. “And it’s not even close.”

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2016

We know that we have to create a more personalized learning environment to do that. But we’re also the second largest school in the country, so we know we have to use technology to create and scale that experience. Adaptive learning is not right for every situation.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Software & Online ALMA TECHNOLOGIES, INC. www.getalma.com ) Alma Technologies has announced it is allowing any SQL-based business intelligence tool, such as Tableau and Jaspersoft, to access data from its modern, student information system and learning management system.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Paul LePage has called for a review of his state’s groundbreaking 1-to–1 student computing initiative, highlighting the growing pains nagging an educational-technology movement now well into its second decade.” ProPublica on “ Discrimination by Design ” in digital technologies. Congrats, education!

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Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Billion Federal Block Grant Makes Ed-Tech Training Higher Priority Than Software, Devices.” Billion Federal Block Grant Makes Ed-Tech Training Higher Priority Than Software, Devices.” National and Global) Education Politics.

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Hack Education

APRIL 14, 2017

I love this headline from Campus Technology , which echoes the wise words of Bill and Ted from their excellent adventure: “ Ed Tech Changes … and Stays the Same.” ” “Mixing Automation and a Human Touch, New Software Helps Keep Students ‘ On Task ’,” says Edsurge.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

One of education technologies’s greatest luminaries passed away this year. Either way, he’s gone too soon; we’ve lost too much , too many in 2016. pic.twitter.com/BBhsgwY2FZ — Audrey Watters (@audreywatters) August 1, 2016. This is part six of my annual review of the year in ed-tech. Read Mindstorms.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. 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. Um, they do.)

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Hack Education

JANUARY 19, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Edsurge covers Clever ’s new product “Clever Goals,” which takes the data that the company gleans about student usage of technology and sells it back to schools. National) Education Politics. Upgrades and Downgrades.

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Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

.” From the story: “Online education company Udacity plans to branch out of its core technology market to meet growing demand for digitally-skilled workers in areas such as banking and the car industry, its co-founder told Reuters as the company launched in Germany.” The video learning company has previously raised $1.57

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

” Sound the made-up-statistic klaxon because the MIT Technology Review parrots the BS claim that “65 percent of children entering primary school today will end up working in jobs that don’t currently exist, underscoring the need for new skills training using hands-on and exploratory learning techniques.”

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Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

From Course Report : “the 2016 Coding Bootcamp Market Size Study.” ” Among the findings: “In 2016, the sheer number of bootcamp providers has grown to 91, compared to 67 last year.” “ 14 projects win 2016 Knight News Challenge on Libraries.” Learn-to-code startup Piper has raised $2.1

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