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Can Online Education Lower Costs and Improve Quality?

Edsurge

It’s called the Teaching Online Podcast, or TOPcast , and co-host Thomas Cavanagh says he is driven by his quest to figure out one of the grand challenges of higher education: how to use technology to raise the quality of instruction while lowering costs. That means seeing analytics as a [supplement] to the human connection.

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Trends, challenges, and developments for higher education’s next 5 years

Bryan Alexander

Increasing Use of Blended Learning Designs. Solvable Challenges: Those which we both understand and know how to solve. Blending Formal and Informal Learning. Learning Analytics & Adaptive Learning. Significant Challenges Impeding Higher Education Technology Adoption. Improving Digital Literacy.

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‘Our Technology Is Our Ideology’: George Siemens on the Future of Digital Learning

Edsurge

While machine learning and automation are obviating the need for learners to memorize content and develop routine skills, current edtech solutions still focus on helping learners develop these capabilities, he says. Rise of the robots Siemens has both an academic and an industry perspective on digital learning.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

How George Mason Became Koch ’s Academic Darling.” Is Teaching Second-Graders How to Ride Bikes. The New Yorker profiles Sphero ’s learn-to-code toy for kids but says dumb things about Seymour Papert’s Logo so I’m not sure why I’m even linking to this. ” “D.C.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

After all, Amazon knows how to run online marketplaces; Amazon knows how to sell texts. Michael Feldstein argued that the “meaninglessness” of Purdue’s claims were important for the ed-tech community to grapple with, in no small part because many other learning analytics systems had been modeled on the Course Signals work.

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