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Personalized Learning, Teachers Unleashed, and a Learning Analytics Partnership: The Story of Fresno Unified

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Teachers Can More Effectively Collaborate With One Another When it started in 2016, many teachers saw the Personalized Learning Initiative as just one more initiative. Participating in even one or two PLI professional learning courses has an impact on learning outcomes.

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The History of the Pedometer (and the Problems with Learning Analytics)

Hack Education

These were my remarks as a guest speaker in Donna Murdoch's class “Online Teaching and Learning – Applying Adult Learning Principles” this evening. I was asked to speak about learning analytics, but like I said in my keynote last week at NMC , ed-tech is boring. So this is a talk about pedometers.

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Campus Tech 2016: Recognizing—and Questioning—“Inevitable” Futures

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Last week at Campus Technology 2016, higher-ed technologists joined forces with administrators, instructional designers, and faculty to explore another realm many consider “wizardry”—predicting the future. And he’s seen “a laundry list” of promising examples over the last few years. I don’t think that’s what’s going on here.

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Giving Data Meaning: Students Should Have A Say In What Analytics Tell You About Them

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Embedded learning analytics are not like rotisserie ovens: you can’t set them and forget them. An interest in respecting student agency is an important component of the academic field of learning analytics. Here, researchers are considering how to use data to reflect on teaching and learning practices.

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Cheating on Chegg? Maybe Not on Its Tutoring Platform

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That’s an example of a request that can be found on online tutoring services like Chegg, as shared by a senior data scientist at the company, Sanghamitra Deb. “I need a 10 page essay written on the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest. Must have 7 resources.” And it’s what the Santa Clara, Calif.-based based company wants to thwart.

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The Next Social Contract for Public Education Needs New Terms of Service

Doug Levin

Note: The original version of this piece was published on July 7, 2016 by New America as part of an EdCentral series on the next social contract for education: https://www.newamerica.org/education-policy/edcentral/next-social-contract-public-education-needs-new-terms-service/.

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Top 8 Advantages of an Interactive STEM Curriculum

Kitaboo on EdTech

million recent STEM grads as of 2016; India had 2.6 Take your smartphone, for example, every month there’s a new update. So, teachers found a solution where they let the students learn about the technicalities of the topic and practice on an online virtual platform. Related: 5 Ways to Use Learning Analytics in K-12 Education.

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