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Can Online Education Lower Costs and Improve Quality?

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Not everyone thinks that’s possible, of course, and even Cavanagh, vice provost for digital learning at the University of Central Florida, admits that edtech can spark plenty of new ethical challenges along the way. We could probably do multiple episodes on learning analytics, maybe there's a whole podcast about it out there somewhere.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

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?). Pearson promises “personalization” through its “adaptive learning” products, for example. (It

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What's on the Horizon (Still, Again, Always) for Ed-Tech

Hack Education

The topic names have been modified “for consistency,” the report’s authors say (although I’m a little unclear about some of these choices – how are “mobile learning,” “tablet computing,” and “bring your own device” separate technological developments? Mobile Learning.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

“Imagine Discovering That Your Teaching Assistant Really Is a Robot ,” says The Wall Street Journal in a story about “Jill Watson” (of course it’s a female name), an automated teaching assistant at Georgia Tech. ” [Insert Course Signals learning analytics joke here.]. From the HR Department.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Course Signals, a software product developed by Purdue University, was designed to boost “student success” by using learning analytics to inform teachers, students, and staff to potential problems, labeling students with a red/yellow/green scheme to indicate their danger in failing a course. Course Signals. Chatbot Instructors.

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