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

Edsurge

The primary trends identified by the team were: adaptive learning, open education resources (OER), gamification and game-based learning, MOOCs, LMS and interoperability, mobile devices, and design. Delivering these models to a differentiated population of educators and learners requires an adaptive approach.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

Instead, they’ve re-branded as job training sites. Pearson promises “personalization” through its “adaptive learning” products, for example. (It ” (Amazon Inspire is the company’s OER platform.) More on that in a subsequent article in this series.)

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Pearson CEO Fallon Talks Common Core, Rise of ‘Open’ Resources

Marketplace K-12

Few corporate brand names in education are as recognizable, and as polarizing, as Pearson, the giant education provider whose reach extends to virtual schools, testing, language training and an array of other areas. Fallon described the scope of the company’s reach in different areas of K-12, higher education, and professional training.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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The NAACP endorses OER. ” Gotta love a quote like this, from a story in Edsurge profiling McComb, Mississippi ’s Summit Elementary School: “We are learning how to mitigate between policy and trying to be as innovative as possible without breaking state laws.” ” The Business of Job Training.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. Perhaps the district didn’t know what New York City learned when it audited its old data portal : it found that less than 3% of parents had ever logged in.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Now the group will be called Career Education Colleges and Universities , to reflect its focus on career training.” Former Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has joined the Board of Directors of the skills training company Pluralsight. (He’s Another for-profit chain on the brink? ” Go team. From the HR Department.