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It’s 2020: Have Digital Learning Innovations Trends Changed?

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The Online Learning Consortium (OLC), one of the 12 partner organizations of Every Learner Everywhere, was charged with identifying and understanding innovations in the digital education landscape. As the conversation continued, Joosten discussed the importance of design in online course development, a primary finding in the scan.

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Ancora High School Partners with McGraw Hill to Launch New Online High School for Adults

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The flexible, individualized and 100% online learning experience is open to learners aged 18 or older who have completed 9th grade. Students go through a guided, asynchronous course experience, monitored by course coaches and student success champions, that is designed to move students through their coursework efficiently.

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Can Competency-Based Education Demonstrate Mastery Across a Lifetime? #DLNchat

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Crisp and other #DLNchat -ters see the growth of CBE and its relevance to employers supported by the expansion of online learning. Not everyone in the #DLNchat community was as enthusiastic about the potential of adaptive learning for CBE. Hiding is Q3 is a big assumption about what #CBE learning ought to look like.

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Why ‘Black Box’ Software Isn’t Ready to Teach College

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That’s the argument of Candace Thille, who has a love-distrust relationship with adaptive software. She pioneered the use of adaptive learning in college teaching, starting the Online Learning Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University more than 15 years ago, and she sees how powerful it can be in a classroom.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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To believe that would require, of course, that we overlook the role that the major technology platforms – Google, Facebook, and Amazon – play in education. Of course, for this to apply to Pearson, it would have to turn out high quality content. Education’s Proto-Platforms. Big Tech’s Bets.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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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 Weekly News

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” The Trump Administration is calling it “ restoring Internet freedom ,” because of f **g course. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Online education pioneer Tony Bates asks “ What is online learning ?” a month.). .” ” Oh. ” (Wow.