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ASU Agrees to Independent Investigation of Its Online Textbook Practices

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Arizona State University agreed this week to mount an independent investigation of a professor’s allegations that students were forced to pay for unneeded software so that they could turn in their homework in hopes of getting a grant from the textbook publisher. And it said no professor was asked to fail students.

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How to Re-Energize Disconnected Classroom Participants

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In today’s modern environment, educators have their work cut out for them, from staying on top of adaptive learning technologies to navigating new student requirements. Overnight, face-to-face lessons were replaced by remote learning, and a wide range of new tools was introduced to support this. Why the disconnect?

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

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From facial-recognition cameras to web and social media filtering software, surveillance technologies are finding their foothold in schools across America. Race, Social Media and the Role of Schools : Educational activism is on the rise and more visible than ever before. Tuesday, March 5, 11 a.m. 12:30 p.m.

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Paying to Turn in Homework? ASU Prof's Viral Email Raises Questions About Online Textbook Model

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That charge, by Brian Goegan, clearly struck a nerve with students around the country, leading to memes on social media portraying the professor as a hero fighting corrupt university officials, as well as t-shirts with the slogan: “ my homework was more expensive than this t-shirt.”

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They Said it Better Than I Can

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higher education e.g., What Faculty Should Know About Adaptive Learning , State of the Anglosphere’s Higher Education LMS Market: 2013 Edition. Despite the occasional over-the-top writing, this blog was an excellent source of information about the recent kerfuffle about Purdue University’s learning analytics software.

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What to Identify Before Personalizing Learning

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With adaptive learning software, student learning journeys are customized and supported with resources based on their interest and excitement around particular subtopics while at the same time allowing teachers to make data-driven educational decisions. This edWeb broadcast was sponsored by Britannica Digital Learning.

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

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From adaptive learning to adaptive learners Siemens worries that current education systems aren’t adjusting to this new reality. Blogs, wikis and social media, on the other hand, are distributed across networks.