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Report: One of the Biggest Obstacles to Remote Learning? Finding a Quiet Place to Work

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With school plans for the fall focused less on reopening and more on resuming remote learning, the mixed experience with online instruction from the spring offers many lessons for how district leaders can better prepare for this next go around. Teachers report overwhelmingly using their LMS—but few other educational technology programs.

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Hoping to Spur 'Learning Engineering,' Carnegie Mellon Will Open-Source Its Digital-Learning Software

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Among the software slated to be released under an open-source license is the university’s pioneering adaptive-learning project, the Open Learning Initiative , as well as a learning analytics platform LearnSphere. Carnegie Mellon has a long history of commercializing its digital-learning tools, though.

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Behaviorism, Surveillance, and (School) Work

Hack Education

I was a speaker today at the #AgainstSurveillance teach-in , a fundraiser for Ian Linkletter who is being sued by the online test-proctoring software company Proctorio. In ed-tech circles, we call this "learning analytics," but it's less about learning than it is about productivity.). Technologies have histories.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

.” Re-reading that article now makes me cringe. I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow. The company has raised some $77.5 It’s not even an LMS, quite frankly – something Edmodo tried to use as a selling point for a little while.

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How to Retain Students in a Post-Pandemic World

Omega Notes

Katherine Streeter said it best in her Chronicle of Higher Education article, How Your College Can Survive the Pandemic , “The problem goes beyond the immediate need to manage through Covid-19; Rome is burning”. In most cases the substitute offered was little more than an LMS discussion board, video conferencing, and an email client.

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How to Retain Students in a Post-Pandemic World

Omega Notes

Katherine Streeter said it best in her Chronicle of Higher Education article, How Your College Can Survive the Pandemic , “The problem goes beyond the immediate need to manage through Covid-19; Rome is burning”. In most cases the substitute offered was little more than an LMS discussion board, video conferencing, and an email client.

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How to Retain Students in a Post-Pandemic World

Omega Notes

Katherine Streeter said it best in her Chronicle of Higher Education article, How Your College Can Survive the Pandemic , “The problem goes beyond the immediate need to manage through Covid-19; Rome is burning”. In most cases the substitute offered was little more than an LMS discussion board, video conferencing, and an email client.

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