Bryan Alexander

JUNE 24, 2015

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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Technology LMS OER Learning Analytics 40

ProfHacker

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

For example, learning analytics may look at how many times someone has watched a video and for how long. For a discussion on decolonizing learning analytics, check out this blogpost by Paul Prinsloo, and then do a Scholar search on his publications on the topic of ethics in learning analytics.

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Technology EdTech Learning Analytics Adaptive Learning 81

Hack Education

DECEMBER 10, 2017

This is part five of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” As in previous years, it would be quite easy to fill a whole article in this series on “ data insecurity ,” on the data breaches and cyberattacks that continue to plague education – both schools and software.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 23, 2021

Educational leaders and teachers have improved processes to improve instruction, learning and institutional systems. For example, Dr. May-Vollmar’s district better investigates students’ online absences, exploring whether technology or connectivity issues prevented access (instead of assuming they just didn’t show up).

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). Certainly “free” works well for cash-strapped schools. Um, they do.)

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Learning with 'e's

OCTOBER 11, 2013

The rise is also due to people''s desire to develop their learning informally. There are formal contexts for mobile learning, but it is in the leisure time/travelling/down time that mobile learning still comes to the fore. Such large data sets can conceivably be sold on for a sizeable profit to companies who are interested.

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Mistakengoal.com

DECEMBER 29, 2013

Despite the occasional over-the-top writing, this blog was an excellent source of information about the recent kerfuffle about Purdue University’s learning analytics software. This post is a great example of the good thoughts that are shared on this website. Craig Watson’s 2010 book of the same name.

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Hack Education

APRIL 7, 2017

He released an interactive CD-ROM in 1994, for example, a game that played a lot like another popular video game at the time, Myst. You can request a copy of your articles from academic publications. Students often find themselves uploading their content – their creative work – into the learning management system (the VLE).

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Technology Education VLE Industry 72

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

” 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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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

And yet it is naive and even misleading to pretend as though education technology exists separately from either of those – from the politics of DC, the politics of local school boards, or the politics of Silicon Valley, for example. You can receive updates from Hack Education via email if you prefer to read articles that way.).

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Technology MOOC Trends Khan Academy 58

Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

I’m more hopeful that meaningful adoption of online learning can occur in traditional higher/tertiary education providers that are not universities. For example, colleges of higher and further education or the training and further education sector in Australia. Many MOOCs, for example, use learning material that are not actually open.

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. For example, this story from the School Library Journal : “ Charter Schools , Segregation , and School Library Access.” The third: lifelong learning. National) Education Politics. Her remarks.) Hope y’all love school.

Education 46

Education Robotics OER MOOC 46

Hack Education

JULY 13, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” From the press release (which explains why there’d be an article on the company this week): “ YouTube joins forces with Britannica to provide easier access to credible and authoritative information.”

Education 43

Education Khan Academy Blackboard Report 43

Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

I’m more hopeful that meaningful adoption of online learning can occur in traditional higher/tertiary education providers that are not universities. For example, colleges of higher and further education or the training and further education sector in Australia. Many MOOCs, for example, use learning material that are not actually open.

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MOOC Technology Education Online Learning 32

Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

“Examining ethical and privacy issues surrounding learning analytics ” by Tony Bates. The median male salary at the Clayton Christensen Institute, for example is $143,000; the media female salary is $112,300. From this article, I learned that Sal Khan earns more than $540,000 a year.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2017

EDITED TO ADD: Apparently, The Guardian article is not quite right. ” Not Tressie McMillan Cottom, for example. Via teachonline.ca : “Directory of Vendors of Online Learning Products and Services.” Via EdTech Magazine : “How Learning Analytics Can Help Inform K–12 Decisions.”

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Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

” (The article features a photo of Arne Duncan – a reminder that the former Secretary of Education now works for the Knight Commission, as well as for the venture firm Emerson Collective.). .” ” The story above is just one recent example of technology entrepreneurs making claims that do not “add up.”

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

JANUARY 6, 2023

in mathematics and 25 years' experience as a professor, including some background in Python, when I decided to get serious about learning R and data science (and learning analytics in particular) and attended the LASER Institute at NC State this year, I was starting from zero. Although I have a Ph.D.

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