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TCC Takes Z-Degrees to the Next Level With Adaptive Learning

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Now benefits like those cost reductions and higher student success rates are prompting the school to roll out more Z-degrees programs and extend its partnership with Lumen Learning by piloting next-generation adaptive OER courseware. But Tidewater doesn’t have plans for total conversion to OER, despite the benefits.

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Engrade users can access Knovation’s digital content

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McGraw-Hill Education, a learning science company, and Knovation, an online resource curation tool, announced a collaboration to expand and simplify educators’ and students’ access to professionally-evaluated, standards-aligned digital content.

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Pearson CEO Fallon Talks Common Core, Rise of ‘Open’ Resources

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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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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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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. In education, both algorithms and data are integral to the push for “personalization.” ” (Amazon Inspire is the company’s OER platform.)

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Hack Education Weekly News

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in August has released an assessment on the university’s response and what it could have done better. ” According to WCET , “Developing Effective Courses Using Adaptive Learning Begins with Proper Alignment.” ” Via Getting Smart : “ Virtual and Augmented Reality in Personalized Learning.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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The NAACP endorses OER. The “nation’s report card” is the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP. ” I’m more interested in hearing about segregation and state laws in Mississippi than the adaptive learning software a school is using. ” Oh.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. They contend that their schools expand on Montessori’s vision by adding new digital technologies to “personalize learning,” as well as to surveil students.

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