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Cash Awards Honor Faculty and Institutions for Innovative Use of Digital Tools

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Fulé and her colleague Don Carter, the university’s director of e-learning, launched the. When Wallinga returned to campus from last fall’s Accelerate conference, he brought back a check, a trophy, and newfound respect. For some students and courses, Fisher combined EWA with tutoring and modular courses. The result?

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Ed Tech News, a New Podcast, and the Hack Education Roundup!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

ANNOUNCEMENTS The Library 2.011 worldwide virtual conference is almost here! The conference schedule is now online, with all 160+ sessions, and an individual hour-by-hour schedule calendar for all 36 time zones. The 2011 Global Education Conference is also fast approaching: November 14 - 18. November 2 - 4, all online, all free.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Congratulations, STEM folks and learn-to-code evangelists, for being featured in President Trump’s list of his 2017 accomplishments. “UCL to investigate eugenics conference secretly held on campus,” says The Guardian. The English-language-learning company has raised $608 million total.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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“ OpenStax , Knewton introduce adaptive learning into OER.” From iNACOL: “ Promising State Policies for Personalized Learning.” ” From Mindwires Consulting: “ e-Literate Big Picture: LMS.” ” Via The Atlantic : “The Complex Data on Girls in STEM.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Indeed, according to one story in The Atlantic , a school district in Colorado opted to do away with parent-teacher conferences entirely, encouraging parents instead to simply check online to see what their children were up to. The key word in that headline isn’t “digital”; it’s “force.” But new technology hasn’t made it easy.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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He believes the future of education means all STEM, no arts and no humanities. ” Via Real Clear Education : “Connecting Schools to the Future: Rethinking E-Rate.” ” The Linked Learning Alliance is a voluntary certification program for California’s high school career academies.