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Pros and Cons of Using eLearning Software in Your Classroom

Educational Technology Guy

Sure, having specialized software for learning is great, but these will at least start you off on the right foot. Instant verification Online learning software allows controlling the learning process better and watching out for academic dishonesty. And, without a doubt, it has disadvantages.

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Designing Organizations to Support Tech on Campus #SXSWedu

EdTechSandyK

Kim, Researcch Scientist in the Learning Systems Lab, MIT What is your mission? Interesting (to me, Sandy) that some digital learning groups/departments were created in the wake of Coursera. Humans still learn by the same mechanisms they always have. It's difficult to assess overall efficacy when data is not transparent.

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Will this semester forever alter college? No, but some virtual tools will stick around

The Hechinger Report

Lafayette College showed faculty how to make document cameras at home using cardboard and rubber bands. Real online education lets students move at their own pace and includes such features as continual assessments so they can jump ahead as soon as they’ve mastered a skill, Fredericksen and others said.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Testing, Testing… “ Nevada officials announced Tuesday that a common-core assessment consortium will credit the state $1.8 million as compensation for problems that derailed a spate of its assessments last year,” Education Week reports. Via Education Next : “The Politics of the Common Core Assessments.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. Whittle went on to have a string of business failures in the 1990s — well-documented in Samuel Abrams’s book The Commercial Mindset — most notably the for-profit flop Edison Schools.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via The Seattle Times : “A cellphone belonging to the man who claims he shot and wounded another man in self-defense during a demonstration last month at the University of Washington had been wiped clean of data before being seized by police, according to search-warrant documents filed in King County Superior Court.”