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

Edsurge

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. It’s controlled, top-down, by the institution that bought it; it’s closed to anyone without a login.

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5 Recent Advances in Educational Technology - guest post

Educational Technology Guy

For example, if you have an overly large group of students where it is difficult to have personal one on one time with each, LMS makes it possible to create lesson plans via video or wiki as well as track content through blogs and other easily accessible tools. This allows for more of an exclusive interaction.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Wikispaces Classroom (and free wikis from the company, now owned by TES ) joins the ed-tech dead pool. The “ invisible ” “adaptive learning” company has raised $38.7 Via Edsurge : “ Jefferson Education Accelerator Winds Down, Rebrands to Focus on Edtech Reviews and Procurement.” million total.