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?Readers’ Roundup: EdSurge HigherEd’s Top 10 Articles of 2017

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Microcredentials, and controversial moves and pivots by edtech companies hoping to disrupt the higher education landscape. A few weeks after EdSurge probed the company about the silence, Amazon opened up the resource library to the public. We’ve rounded up our 10 most popular articles from 2017, as picked by our readers.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Some of these experimental sites included MOOCs and coding bootcamps. Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Assessing the Travel Ban : What New Data on Overseas Recruitment Does – and Doesn’t – Tell Us.” State and Local) Education Politics. ” Education in the Courts.

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?Edtech is Trapped in Ben Bloom’s Basement

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In fact, aside from the predictable few flickers of Facebook and Twitter, it seemed most of the students were actually working on something productive. Now, every student’s face was blankly fixated on the all-too-familiar glow of their computer screens. But the technology itself was not my concern.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

At the time, I wrote about the importance of APIs; the issues surrounding data security and privacy; the appeal of platforms for users and businesses; and the education and tech companies who were well-positioned (or at least wanting) to become education platforms. ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs.

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10 Experts’ Predictions for Education and Technology in 2016

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I think we will see some innovation in competency-based assessment tools and systems partially driven by the flexibility given by ESSA to manage the evaluation of project, portfolios, performance tasks and other student-centered approaches. He blogs at www.brightclassroomideas.com and shares educational ideas on Twitter at @SSavides.

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A Call For Homeschool 2.0

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Please share in the comments or via Twitter. ”. For context, we need to go a little father back, to the piece last week on Wired– The Techies Who Are Hacking Education by Homeschooling Their Kids –that is getting a lot of run on twitter recently. Same with a school or curriculum or assessment. Your thoughts on this?

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Revolution in Higher Education: chapter 4

Bryan Alexander

” Here DeMillo changes tack from neuroscience (chapter 3) and returns to technology, but not very much to MOOCs. Just using a clicker for formative assessment makes a big difference (2023) (paging Derek Bruff !). Notice the, ah, interesting case of a company recruiting unpaid tutors for online learning (2100).