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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” It’s being positioned here as the first time Congress has funded open textbooks, but it’s not the federal government’s first commitment to OER. National) Education Politics. Her remarks.) ” That’s ALEC.

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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. platforms are digital infrastructures that enable two or more groups to interact. More on that in a subsequent article in this series.)

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 10 Edition)

Doug Levin

Tagged on: March 8, 2017 New Solutions—Not Just New Winners—In the Curriculum Marketplace | New America → Innovative uses of OER offer an entirely new way of answering the question of how we solve for inefficiencies in the curriculum marketplace, rather than just advocating for new winners. Case in point: Chrome extensions gone bad.

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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.) This “reverse engineering,” the publishers claimed, violated copyright.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

. “ How Not to Study Donald Trump ” – “To make sense of Trumpism, and to put Trump in his historical context, The Chronicle of Higher Education asked a mostly white group of scholars to suggest readings for a syllabus for a mock course in Trump Studies. ” Will for-profit higher ed be an election issue? .”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” The chain in question: Celerity Educational Group. ” “Of OER and Platforms: Five Years Later” by Lumen Learning’s David Wiley. Most certainly food for thought touting the power of “ learning analytics.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via eCampus News : “ Barnes & Noble Education announces advanced OER courseware.” ” “What You Need to Know About Learning Analytics ,” according to The Chronicle of Higher Education. Via New America : “The Promise and Peril of Predictive Analytics in Higher Education.”