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Otus - LMS, Data Management and Assessment Management, all in one easy-to-use product

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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. We’re only at the tip of the iceberg with learning analytics.

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How a Parody Twitter Account Helps Decode the Hulking Educause Conference (And What to Expect This Year)

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October 12, 2016. So we decided to track down this heroic jokester for a more in-depth interview with the IT official (who we’ll keep anonymous, though you could track him down with a bit of Googling). EDUCAUSE HULK (@EDUCAUSE_HULK) October 14, 2016. Improving Learning and Teaching with Learning Analytics: What Do Teachers Want?

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

” In his book, Srnicek identifies five kinds of platforms: advertising platforms (like Google and Facebook), cloud platforms (like Salesforce and Amazon Web Services), industrial platforms (like GE and Siemens), product platforms (like Spotify), and lean platforms (like Uber and AirBnB). Education’s Proto-Platforms.

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Ed-Tech and the Commercialization of School

Hack Education

Learning analytics is often framed as a “hot new trend” in education. Google’s origins are at Stanford. Ed-tech in 2016 is different than ed-tech in 1916. Computers, in many many ways, are simply an extension of this. But it’s actually quite an old one. LOGO came from MIT. WebCT came from UBC.

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Inside a Student’s Hunt for His Own Learning Data

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That didn’t stop Bryan Short, who was a student at the University of British Columbia in 2016 when he got curious to know what information the learning management system at his university had collected on him and how it was being used. That makes it hard for students, professors or even journalists to get a glimpse inside.

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15 hot edtech trends for 2017

eSchool News

To get a glimpse into what the next 12 months will hold for everything from professional development to digital learning, and from communication to virtual reality, 15 ed tech luminaries looked back on 2016 edtech trends to help predict what’s in store for 2017. Here’s what they said: 2016 was The Year of Video. And it has.

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