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What’s At Risk When Schools Focus Too Much on Student Data?

MindShift

In its recent announcement of new regulations, the department emphasizes “ ensuring the use of multiple measures of school success based on academic outcomes, student progress, and school quality.” Today, parents increasingly are receiving daily text messages with photos and videos from the classroom.

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Could Remixing Old MOOCs Give New Life to Free Online Education?

Edsurge

But one outcome of that push towards open online courses was plenty of high-quality teaching material. A search in LabXchange would one day pull up a list of videos, text descriptions, infographics and other materials. You drop these into a learning pathway, and you resequence them the way you want to,” he says. “You

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. ”) It was certainly the outcome that investors were hoping for Edmodo , which raised $25 million in 2012, boasting that it had 15 million users. It announced this year it was “ phasing out ” its reliance on Knewton provide those algorithms.).

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

It was probably Sal Khan’s 2011 TED Talk “Let’s Use Video to Reinvent Education” and the flurry of media he received over the course of the following year or so that introduced the idea of the “flipped classroom” to most people. Why are video-taped lectures so “revolutionary” if lectures themselves are supposedly not? (As

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