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Digital Leadership is Not Optional

A Principal's Reflections

Society is now in the midst of the Fourth Industrial Revolution , which was in its infancy as I began writing this book. Personalized and blended learning pathways were proclaimed to be the future of education. Automation and robotics are already disrupting the world of work, as we know it. How are we adapting and evolving?

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Online Learning's 'Greatest Hits'

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The biggest occurred when instructional designers, long employed by industry, joined online academic teams, working closely with faculty to upload and integrate interactive and engaging content. Most authoring software also integrates assessment tools, testing learning outcomes. The term MOOC was coined by others in 2008.)

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Your Syllabus to SXSW EDU 2019 (and Where to Find Us!)

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Between the barbeque and baristas, the dive bars and dueling pianos, thousands of educators, along with entrepreneurs, investors, researchers and policymakers across the education industry, will descend on Austin, Texas, during the first week of March for SXSW EDU. Ostensibly these tools are for the greater good—keeping kids safe.

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Can Online Education Lower Costs and Improve Quality?

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Thomas Cavanagh, vice provost for digital learning at the University of Central Florida You're talking about enhancing human conversations with software robots. Some critics of learning analytics worry that algorithms could end up reinforcing stereotypes and actually having a negative impact for some students.

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The Asian Money Fueling US Edtech Investments

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education industry has not become so dependent (yet). The technologies built by these companies span a wide gamut of buzzwords (adaptive learning, artificial intelligence, gamification) but will be integrated with TAL’s online offerings. Sinovation also funds companies in other technology sectors including robotics and Big Data.)

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

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Rise of the robots Siemens has both an academic and an industry perspective on digital learning. The kind of knowledge that humans need to function in society looks different than it did during the Industrial Revolution.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed. Subscribe to their blog. It’s now an LMS too.