ProfHacker

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

I can see evidence around me that AI (Artificial Intelligence), Analytics and Adaptive Learning are being pushed in the education field, but I have a strong aversion to all of them, mainly on ethical grounds. For example, learning analytics may look at how many times someone has watched a video and for how long.

Technology 81

Technology EdTech Learning Analytics Adaptive Learning 81

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

These sources often provide in-depth analyses, research findings, and articles on the latest trends in K-12 education. Increased Use of Learning Analytics: Educators are leveraging data and learning analytics to monitor student progress, identify areas of difficulty, and provide targeted interventions.

Trends 52

Trends Education Robotics Blended Learning 52

Hack Education

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Microsoft and Google offer schools "productivity tools," for example, making it quite clear — I would hope — that whatever students or staff type or click on feeds into financial measurements of efficiency. In ed-tech circles, we call this "learning analytics," but it's less about learning than it is about productivity.).

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Software LMS Microsoft Company 132

edWeb.net

JANUARY 22, 2021

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.

Data 53

Data Education Report Professional Learning 53

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. To believe that would require, of course, that we overlook the role that the major technology platforms – Google, Facebook, and Amazon – play in education.

Technology 62

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Mistakengoal.com

JULY 21, 2014

I feel an obligation to bring closure to the historical work I began a few years ago so I will be spending the next several months working with primary sources and reworking old drafts into publishable articles. Faculty wonder if their jobs are being increasingly outsourced to MOOCs and learning analytics funded by the Gates Foundation.

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MOOC Conference Learning Analytics Facebook 67

Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. The third: lifelong learning. ” My favorite part of this article, I think, is where it boasts about how stable Ethiopia is these days. ” Via The New York Times : “ Google Pledges $300 Million to Clean Up False News.”

Education 46

Education Robotics OER MOOC 46

Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

By the end of the year expect the start of articles on Inside Higher Education complaining about open badges with many more to come in 2015 as recalcitrant faculty start to become aware of ‘micro credentialing’ as it will be badged. I expect that learning analytics will be entering Gartner’s technology trough this year.

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MOOC Technology Education Online Learning 89

Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

By the end of the year expect the start of articles on Inside Higher Education complaining about open badges with many more to come in 2015 as recalcitrant faculty start to become aware of ‘micro credentialing’ as it will be badged. I expect that learning analytics will be entering Gartner’s technology trough this year.

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MOOC Technology Education Online Learning 32

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. After Googling ( stop laughing at me! )

Data 59

Data Blackboard Learning Libraries 59

Hack Education

APRIL 7, 2017

Prince fought for a long time with record labels, and arguably that makes his response to the new digital “masters” – Apple, Google, Spotify, and such – more understandable. You can request a copy of your articles from academic publications. That is, they send you a copy.

Technology 72

Technology Education VLE Industry 72

edWeb.net

JUNE 23, 2021

Looking at variables such as student connectivity (and when that happened), virtual engagement, time spent on learning events and access to collaboration and productivity tools like Google Suite, Zoom and Khan Academy informed approaches to instruction and support systems. Dr. Neufeld has an M.B.A.

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Khan Academy Data Industry Learning Analytics 53

Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. From the Google blog : “ Chromebook tablets for versatile learning.” Speaking of Google , Wired reports that “Children’s YouTube is still churning out blood, suicide and cannibalism.”

Education 45

Education Robotics iPad Company 45

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Then there was the infamous anti-diversity memo distributed by Google engineer James Damore and leaked to the press this summer that charged that efforts the company (and the industry more broadly) had taken to address diversity were misguided as women are biologically ill-suited to computer science – which is, of course, totally b t.

Technology 58

Technology MOOC Trends Khan Academy 58

Doug Levin

MARCH 12, 2017

But.truth is, the US government isn't the early adopter here; Amazon, Google and Facebook are really the front-line developers of the surveillance state." " Hopefully, not shades of future conversations about learning analytics. Tagged on: March 8, 2017 Benchmarking U.S.

EdTech 170

EdTech E-rate OER Coursera 170

Hack Education

JULY 13, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” Via Edsurge : “ Britannica CEO Talks Google, Wikipedia and What Lil Pump Can Teach Us About Credibility.” ” The survey was conducted by learning analytics company Civitas Learning. million total.

Education 43

Education Khan Academy Blackboard Report 43

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

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. Channel One (and the Unsinkable Chris Whittle).

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

MAY 4, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” Don’t be fooled by the headline; there isn’t really anything in the article recognizing imperialist nostalgia or racist TV tropes. Edwin has received an undisclosed amount of investment from Google for its tutoring app.

MOOC 42

MOOC Education Robotics Company 42

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.). Speaking of loans, Google will ban ads for payday loans. ” [Insert Course Signals learning analytics joke here.].

Education 52

Education Pearson Report MOOC 52

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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Data Education Software Social Media 78

Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2017

EDITED TO ADD: Apparently, The Guardian article is not quite right. Fascinating how affluent parents in the shadow of Google and Apple HQs respond to ed-tech, no?). ” “ Google’s Toontastic storytelling app for kids goes 3D,” says Techcrunch. Defeated" is too strong a word here. “G Suite.”).

MOOC 40

MOOC Education Robotics Report 40

Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

Via the Providence Journal : “Three teachers have resigned from Blackstone Valley Prep after the charter school confirmed allegations that they posted hurtful messages about some of their students” into a Google Doc shared with the entire school. From this article, I learned that Sal Khan earns more than $540,000 a year.

Coursera 60

Coursera Education E-rate Company 60

Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

Via The New York Times : “ Google , in Post-Obama Era, Aggressively Woos Republicans ” – so enjoy that Google Certification, educators. Via Education Week : “ Mississippi Attorney General Sues Google Over Student-Data Privacy.” ” That’d be Hugo Barra , a former Google exec.

Education 40

Education Coursera Robotics E-rate 40

Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

” Google announced it was cutting jobs in its Google Fiber division. And Google has put plans to expand Fiber to more cities on hold. And Google is getting into the whiteboard business. ” Via the Pacific Standard : “ Google ’s Broken Privacy Promise.” The CEO has resigned.

Education 40

Education Pearson Blackboard Survey 40