techlearning

OCTOBER 25, 2018

With more than $3 billion spent on ed tech products last year and more than 2,500 programs on the market, educators across the country need to know which products are likely to make a difference in teaching and learning. Join us for What Ed Tech Apps Work Best for Learning? In a research study into this issue, Dr. Ryan S.

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Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 9, 2018

RISE is the analysis that identifies which content needs work (you can read more about RISE here ). This process begins with a RISE analysis. RISE analysis divides performance on assessments into two categories, higher and lower, and usage of OER into the same two categories, higher and lower. The RISE and Shine Initiative.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 6, 2021

Administrators wanted to know what data the teachers were using, what data they wanted that they didn’t have, how easy it was to access, and how often they used it. Then, they needed to look at the data governance: Who has access to what data and where? Now, the mission is to figure out what data to track and how to use it.

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Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2019

They were mentored by a team of NuVu coaches to explore their creative instincts, while expanding their capacity to think and learn analytically. In these adventures, students looked to their own communities, current events and life experiences to retell stories in a new, accessible medium for younger students in the lower school.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2018

is a for-profit company that sells data analysis to public schools. The company hired Ryan Baker, director of the Penn Center for Learning Analytics , and another data scientist to mine the data and create a national snapshot of technology use for the 2017-18 school year. Apps are increasingly common in U.S. BrightBytes Inc.

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Marketplace K-12

JULY 25, 2016

Schoolie’s school quality data will be incorporated into GreatSchools’ website in the coming months, and “will help parents more efficiently compare and evaluate academic rigor and understand how well schools provide access to a well-rounded education,” the companies noted in the statement. Franklin, Tenn.-based

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2016

On the other hand, they need to avoid the tendency to measure everything to death, seeking definitive truth in the data detail and bogging the project and the team down with mind-numbing analysis. We have learned how to increasingly use data efficiently to understand how well our learners are doing. When Change Is the New Normal.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 22, 2021

Geotags can also be used to identify locations and build maps that make important types of information more apparent, and filters can be included to provide quick access to subsets of information for certain subjects or types of students. He spent most of his career as CIO/CTO with the Sharon and Newton Public Schools in Massachusetts.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

I am also currently carrying out research of open educational practices, such as Massive Open Online Courses and am involved in research in learning analytics. Prior to this I managed a number of large Widening Access outreach projects in South West Wales and the Valleys.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow. Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?). ” Re-reading that article now makes me cringe. The LMS giant Blackboard celebrated its 20th anniversary this year. (I

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

For example, this story from the School Library Journal : “ Charter Schools , Segregation , and School Library Access.” ” I’m hoping to find some time in the next day or so to write more about ed-tech psychographic targeting, behaviorism, “social emotional learning,” and learning analytics.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

This series is meant to serve in-depth exploration of the events of the past year and an analysis of how these events shape the way in which we imagine and prepare for the future of teaching and learning. Learning to Code. Education Data and Learning Analytics. The Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2012. The Maker Movement.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Blackboard has acquired Fronteer , a software company that helps make course materials accessible. Via the MIT Technology Review : “ AT&T Is Selling Law Enforcement Access to Its Customers’ Data.” ” “What You Need to Know About Learning Analytics ,” according to The Chronicle of Higher Education.

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Hack Education

JULY 13, 2018

” Via Inside Higher Ed : “A Virginia circuit court on Thursday ruled against a George Mason University student group seeking access to donor agreements between a university foundation and the Charles Koch Foundation.” “Lifelong learning” and multiple choice quizzes for two to five year olds.

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Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

The program will focus on nonprofits that help refugees, which will be able to apply for fee waivers to access the Coursera course catalog.” “Examining ethical and privacy issues surrounding learning analytics ” by Tony Bates. From this article, I learned that Sal Khan earns more than $540,000 a year.

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Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

“ Online tutoring by students raises access fears,” says the Times Higher Education. “Start-up firm Spires plans rapid expansion across UK universities, and says it could help social mobility – but others see private tutoring as harming access.” Or something. Elsewhere: “U.S.

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Education Pearson MOOC Report 52

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

One of the “hot new trends” in education technology is “learning analytics” – this idea that if you collect enough data about students that you can analyze it and in turn algorithmically direct students towards more efficient and productive behaviors, institutions towards more efficient and productive outcomes.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. Um, they do.) Despite a few anecdotes, they’re really not.).

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2017

A bill in Missouri would end tenure for all new faculty hires starting in 2018 and require more student access to information about the job market for majors. Via Zion Market Research : “ Massive Open Online Course Market : Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends, and Forecasts 2016-2024.”

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