Edsurge

JULY 10, 2016

Habitable Worlds , an introductory science course that Arizona State University professor Ariel Anbar has taught online for five years. It represents a category of edtech, called “digital courseware” by foundations and industry analysts, that’s changing the way online students learn and faculty teach. Course of the Future.

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ProfHacker

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

I can see evidence around me that AI (Artificial Intelligence), Analytics and Adaptive Learning are being pushed in the education field, but I have a strong aversion to all of them, mainly on ethical grounds. So give them teaching assistants or do more peer assessment. Plagiarism-detection tools are no better.

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eSchool News

JUNE 2, 2016

In New Mexico there is an academic gap between rural and urban communities—students in some areas have access to a wider menu of course options, while others leave school ill-equipped for college,” explained Amy Jaramillo, executive director of IDEAL New Mexico, who served on the RFP evaluation committee during the selection process. .

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

million in venture capital from high profile names like LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and from firms active in ed-tech investing such as Learn Capital. To believe that would require, of course, that we overlook the role that the major technology platforms – Google, Facebook, and Amazon – play in education.

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Marketplace K-12

MAY 16, 2016

Thirty percent of the company’s revenues come from assessments of one kind or another, which includes professional certification and apprenticeship programs, as well as summative exams. Pearson was recently faulted by New Jersey state officials for a disruption of that state’s assessments.].

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Kitaboo on EdTech

AUGUST 29, 2023

Helps Track and Assess Performance Online publishing platforms offer the feature of learning analytics reports, which help curriculum creators and educators track the engagement level of students. This gives insights into parts of the course that are most or least engaging.

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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2019

The software tools released at the event are called the OpenSimon Toolkit, and they can help colleges create digital courseware and measure how well their course materials work. Bolsinger noted that Duquesne was already using the main tool CMU was talking about, the Online Learning Initiative platform, but only in a few courses.

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Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

” The Whiteboard Advisors’ latest “Education Insider” report ( PDF ) is on assessment trends, higher education, and the presidential campaigns. ” The university recently decided not to partner with the for-profit ITT, and I do wonder if that decision counted as a positive or negative in Moody’s assessment.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. Rafter, a course material provider that was an early advocate of and provider for this bundling of textbooks and tuition, closed its doors in 2016 , having raised more than $86 million.

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Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

And of course current Undersecretary of Education, Ted Mitchell, is a former VC.) ” “ Northwest Evaluation Association To Enter State Assessment Market,” says Education Week. From the Coursera blog : “Coursera pilots a new course format.” Presidential Campaign Politics.

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