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EdTech Acronyms Explained

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LMS – Learning Management System (software that runs and manages educational programs). MLD – Mobile Learning Devices. MLearning – Mobile Learning. MOOC – Massively Open Online Course (an online course which has video lectures, problem solving activities, texts and an online community of fellow learners).

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What Faculty Need to Know About ‘Learner Experience Design’

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New technologies promise a more adaptive and personalized learning experience. However, many are coding the human element out of learning. We hope that as more faculty understand, and embrace, the field of LX design, both faculty and students will have more rewarding and meaningful online learning experiences.

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Giving Thanks: The Top EdSurge Contributors of 2016

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The edtech entrepreneurs, educators, investors and other education professionals that share their opinions and practices through storytelling on our site are invaluable to this industry, and we celebrate them. Today, we’d like to call out nine of our contributors in particular, who’ve written the most popular articles of 2016.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). “ Does tech designed to personalize learning actually benefit students? The third: lifelong learning. National) Education Politics. Her remarks.)

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

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” Tutoring is the cornerstone of technological fantasies about “personalized learning.” Not a great outcome for a company that had raised over $77 million in venture funding and had been lauded as the future of social learning. “EdTech fails to pay, again,” The Financial Times chuckled.

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For Students, the Convenience of Smartphones ‘Comes at a Steep Price’

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This article is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. Now retired, he’s devoted to education philanthropy, and supporting schools that reimagine teaching and learning. Recently, we asked Dintersmith for his thoughts on the decade in edtech, as someone who’s seen a fair number of sides of it.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “Aftermath of the MOOC wars: Can commercial vendors support creative higher education ? ” From the article: Zuckerberg revealed that he wants to ensure that education has a chance to flourish in VR. Raise $146.1 Dead) Lady Macbeth? Also dead) Ophelia?