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Polaris Recognized as Learning Analytics Solution of the Year

N2Y

By completing assessments, writing goals utilizing assessment data, and then executing with data collection, visualization, and trend analysis tools, teams can be assured they are writing meaningful and data‑driven plans of action. Congratulations to n2y for winning the ‘Learning Analytics Solution of the Year’ award.”.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow. I was inspired, I think, to select that topic because talk of “platforms” was incredibly popular in Silicon Valley – it had been for a while – as companies strove to become “the next Facebook.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Inside Higher Ed : “Analysis of Georgia Tech ’s MOOC-inspired online master’s in computer science suggests that institutions can successfully deliver high-quality, low-cost degrees to students at scale.” Lots of news this week about Facebook and Cambridge Analytica. “Many are never the same.”

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Surveillance, Worst-Case Scenarios, and the Wince-able Moment

Graphite Blog

Because data analysis often occurs invisibly to us, via proprietary algorithms that we don't even know are in play, assigning harm can be a matter of informed guesswork and inference. If people are doing adolescence right, they are making mistakes, asking questions, and breaking things, all in the name of growth and learning.

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The Stories We've Been Told (in 2017) about Education Technology

Hack Education

This series is meant to serve in-depth exploration of the events of the past year and an analysis of how these events shape the way in which we imagine and prepare for the future of teaching and learning. Learning to Code. Education Data and Learning Analytics. The Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2012. The Maker Movement.

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Ed-Tech in a Time of Trump

Hack Education

One of the “hot new trends” in education technology is “learning analytics” – this idea that if you collect enough data about students that you can analyze it and in turn algorithmically direct students towards more efficient and productive behaviors, institutions towards more efficient and productive outcomes. .

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

. “Lifelong learning” and multiple choice quizzes for two to five year olds. E-Literate claimed this week that “ Canvas Surpasses Blackboard Learn in US Market Share” – with some additional analysis about “What’s Important about the Blackboard Market Share News.” Sounds like fun.