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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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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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Digital Learning’s Pioneers Are Cautiously Optimistic

Edsurge

The small amount of research to date on how adaptive learning technology impacts student outcomes is inconclusive. April 2016 study from SRI Education found that students in adaptive courses performed slightly better on assessments than those in a traditional lecture. And like any algorithm, those in adaptive software come with biases.

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The Cause That Unites Chief IT and Academic Officers

Edsurge

The smorgasbord of hardware and software at the show floor caters to a wide range of university IT needs, from security and bandwidth to proctoring and instruction. University IT departments are still feeling the effects of budget cuts from the recession, according to the 2016 Campus Computing Survey. 1 priority for 2016?

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K-12 Dealmaking: Investor Weld North, Learn Launch Make Big Moves

Marketplace K-12

Frontline Acquires Teachscape: K-12 software provider Frontline Technologies has acquired Teachscape , a professional growth solutions provider for K-12 and higher education. 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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Reinventing The School Desk: Tip Tap Tap And The Internet of Things

Fractus Learning

Tip Tap Tap Learning Analytics. Gamification for Learning. TTT platform was designed to provide modalities of interaction complementary alongside effective pedagogies, curriculums and existing tools such as paper, to enhance students’ development of literacy, tracing, and tactile learning. Leveraging Learning Analytics.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

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. billion for 2016, the largest loss in its history.