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Online Learning's 'Greatest Hits'

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Online learning is not just another edtech product, but an innovative teaching practice." Designed to adjust in real-time to each student's prior knowledge and skill attainment, adaptive systems respond to variations in ability and diverse student backgrounds, sensitive to the the unique needs of each learner.

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

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That’s his explanation for how he thinks about the role of education in the 21st century. A researcher, theorist, educator, Siemens is the digital learning guy. Rise of the robots Siemens has both an academic and an industry perspective on digital learning. In order to be creative, you have to have skills behind that.

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30 Examples Of Disruptions In The Classroom

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General insecurity or misunderstanding about how to meaningfully integrate technology in the classroom. Adaptive learning platforms and learning algorithms. Robotics in the classroom. MOOCs, nanodegrees, etc. Change in credibility of a high school diploma or college degree. Maker Movement.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via The New York Times : “ New Mexico Outlaws School ‘Lunch Shaming’ ” Via Buzzfeed : “ California Shows The Rest Of The Country How To Boost Kindergarten Vaccination Rates.” " It’s lovely to see the big innovation from the MOOC startups in 2017 involves the learning management system.

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

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” But of course, that’s not quite true: my first introduction to Papert's work was actually a decade earlier, when I sat at an Apple II and taught a Turtle how to move about the screen. “Hardly Anyone Wants to Take a Liberal Arts MOOC,” Edsurge informed its readers in February. Only “1.86

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

But how do they compare to the old one and the ACT ?” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). From the World Bank’s ed-tech blog : “How students in Uruguayan schools are being taught English over the Internet by teachers in Argentina – and in the UK & the Philippines.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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After all, Amazon knows how to run online marketplaces; Amazon knows how to sell texts. The book packaged the ideas he’d developed during his time in the Blair Administration and at McKinsey & Company on how to successfully manage policy reform efforts. MOOCs are, no surprise, their own entry on this long list of awfulness.

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