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Could Remixing Old MOOCs Give New Life to Free Online Education?

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A search in LabXchange would one day pull up a list of videos, text descriptions, infographics and other materials. From that list of results, he says, you might pick three videos and an infographic, and then add a case study focusing on a really moving human story. And the platform lets you add your own videos or texts as well.

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WHAT’S NEW

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Software & Online ACCELERATE LEARNING STEMSCOPES SCIENCE ( www.stemscopes.com ) Accelerate Learning announced a new platform using the best of CNN’s digital content to create a new science education product. The new video tool runs inside the web browser already installed on teachers’ devices. Illuminate 10.0

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WHAT’S NEW: NEW TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS

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Software & Online ALMA TECHNOLOGIES, INC. www.getalma.com ) Alma Technologies has announced it is allowing any SQL-based business intelligence tool, such as Tableau and Jaspersoft, to access data from its modern, student information system and learning management system.

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Tipping point: Can Summit put personalized learning over the top?

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The change is part of a nationwide pilot program Walsh joined this year, one that could indicate just how deeply and how quickly the personalized-learning trend will penetrate the average classroom. Many watched instructional videos or worked with adaptive-learning software that adjusted lessons based on each student’s proficiency.

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Center for Education Reform Taps Businesses, Charter Schools for Innovation

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The Center for Education Reform , a long-time charter school advocacy organization, says innovation and momentum within the sector of independent schools has slowed, and needs an infusion of new ideas that incorporate new strategies drawn from education technology and other areas. Washington, D.C.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via The New York Post : “Charter-school advocacy group to close up shop.” ” Via CNN : “ YouTube to start labeling videos posted by state-funded media.” ” “ School Shooting Simulation Software (and the Problem with How People Define ‘Ed-Tech’)” by me.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Or the company will have to start charging for the software. It was probably Sal Khan’s 2011 TED Talk “Let’s Use Video to Reinvent Education” and the flurry of media he received over the course of the following year or so that introduced the idea of the “flipped classroom” to most people. And “free” doesn’t last. billion by 2025.

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