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

Edsurge

In an unusual move intended to shake up how college teaching is done around the world, Carnegie Mellon University today announced that it will give away dozens of the digital-learning software tools it has built over more than a decade—and make their underlying code available for anyone to see and modify.

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Ensuring “Techquity” in All Learning Spaces

edWeb.net

Easy to use and integrate, NetRef is a classroom management and learning analytics solution that helps students stay focused and get the most out of digital learning. Learn more at net-ref.com. The post Ensuring “Techquity” in All Learning Spaces appeared first on edWeb.

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Six trajectories for education and technology

Bryan Alexander

It’s a very impressive article, packing a lot of insight into a short space. Malcolm Brown begins with three major drivers: personalization, hybrid learning, and big data. The director of EDUCAUSE ELI describes six major trends (he calls them “trajectories”) for technology and education. Read what follows carefully.

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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. Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?). More on that in a subsequent article in this series.)

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, Um, they do.) Course Signals.

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