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The RISE Package for R: Reducing Time Through the OER Continuous Improvement Cycle

Iterating Toward Openness

Learning analytics, on the other hand, can provide great insight into where course materials – including OER – are not effectively supporting student learning. Since we published the paper last year, the concept of RISE analysis has been openly available but an actual implementation has not.

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Managing and Sharing Your Education Data Effectively

edWeb.net

Once these types of factors are thought through, applications like Google Data Studio can speed up the creation of customized reports through the use of menus, drop-down lists, and drag-and-drop features, while also providing color and font choices that make the data easier and faster for recipients to review and put to good use.

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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. Computing platforms have different abstraction levels, including a computer architecture, an OS, or runtime libraries. Arguably, one of the best candidates is the learning management system.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

For example, this story from the School Library Journal : “ Charter Schools , Segregation , and School Library Access.” ” “ No, YouTube is not a library – and why it matters” by Sarah T. ” Via The New York Times : “ Google Pledges $300 Million to Clean Up False News.”

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15 hot edtech trends for 2017

eSchool News

Stephen Downes works in the Learning and Performance Support Systems program at the National Research Council, a multi-year effort to develop personal learning technology and learning analytics. However, school districts are beginning to use technology to achieve energy efficiencies and savings.

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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. Education Data and Learning Analytics. The Digital Library. The Battle to Open Textbooks. Text-messaging.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

And like so many products on this list, 3D printing was hailed as a revolution in education, and schools were encouraged to reorient libraries and shop classes towards “maker spaces” which would give students opportunities to print their plastic designs. The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That).

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