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Hoping to Spur 'Learning Engineering,' Carnegie Mellon Will Open-Source Its Digital-Learning Software

Edsurge

One of the biggest concerns by college leaders about buying such tools from commercial vendors is whether colleges will have access to the underlying algorithmic logic—or whether the systems will be a “black box.” Carnegie Mellon has a long history of commercializing its digital-learning tools, though.

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The Best Flipped Classroom Software Tools For Flipped Learning In 2021

Fractus Learning

Giving students technology access is vital for flipped classrooms but also enhances the learning experience in a class. Teachers and students also have access to the community’s shared education video resources on subjects ranging from chemistry to music to history. Access Google Drive from a computer, smartphone, or tablet.

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Longtime Higher Ed Leader (and Former U.S. Congressman) Argues For a ‘Networked College’

Edsurge

That, in theory, will allow each campus to focus its energies on what it can do best and turn to outside companies and nonprofits for the rest. It doesn’t matter where you are in terms of having access to knowledge or content. You’re talking about the LMS project, Sakai ? You had to go there to get it.

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Open, Value-Added Services, Interaction, and Learning

Iterating Toward Openness

Both the wider internet and the narrower education space are filled with companies and organizations that provide value-added services around openly licensed software and content. Students in all courses had access to openly licensed readings and interactive activities from Carnegie Mellon’s Open Learning Initiative.

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KITABOO facilitates key LMS integrations with advanced technological features

Kitaboo on EdTech

The course content is usually located in a cloud-based repository and people with authorization can log in with their credentials and access the training and course material. This means that the LMS user gets access to secure content on KITABOO with no fuss whatsoever. Integrating LMS-es with KITABOO, the eReader - why? and LTI 1.3.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Securities and Exchange Commission for allegedly sharing five school districts’ private information with an advisory company while it was negotiating for the districts’ contracts.” For-profit higher ed company Education Management Corp says it will close 22 out of 26 of its Brown Mackie College locations.