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Stanford Calls for Responsible Use of Student Data in Higher Ed

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Note: This article originally appeared in Stanford News. As college students click, swipe and tap through their daily lives—both in the classroom and outside of it—they’re creating a digital footprint of how they think, learn and behave that boggles the mind. The site launched Sept. For Stevens, his “aha!”

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?HigherEd Year in Review: What We’ve Learned (and Loved) in Our First 365 Days

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First the numbers: In the past year, we have published more than 300 articles about the shifting trends in higher ed, education technology and digital learning. Don’t be a stranger in year two—here’s the team below (plus each of our favorite articles so far) to help break the ice. What’s my favorite EdSurge HigherEd article?

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What Is An Asynchronous Learning Community?

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Consider that the goal of education is for students to learn not to demonstrate that they have learned. As we explore this topic, it might help to consider that the traditional form of AL (note: I use AL and the term itself throughout the balance of the article) is different than many of the distinctions we look at.

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?A Starter Kit for Instructional Designers

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As online course platforms proliferate, institutions of all shapes and sizes realize that they’ll need to translate content into digital forms. Designing online learning experiences is essential to training employees, mobilizing customers, serving students, building marketing channels, and sustaining business models.

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Higher Ed’s Technology Blind Spot: a Response to Sherry Turkle

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We’ve written this article in response to the recent EdSurge. Turkle notes the problem of students who seek to replace meeting with professors in their offices with an email. Much of what passes for innovation in online education is an attempt to reproduce the classroom—and often not what works best in the classroom.

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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. ” The race for the California State Superintendent is still undecided – at least as I type up this article, it is. ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Education in the Courts.

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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. “Free College” Via Edsurge : “For Free Community College , Online Learning Isn’t Always Part of the Recipe for Success.” ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”).