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How to enhance students’ work-ready skills

Neo LMS

Robotic or holographic avatar designer. Robot operator. Below you can find a full list of important skills extracted from the Future of Skills report , created by Pearson. This way students have to work with a digital tool daily to learn, to prepare their assessments, to collaborate, and other tasks.

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With Eyes on Asia, Kidaptive Raises $19.1M to Grow Its ‘Invisible’ Adaptive Learning Platform

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Of this amount, Woongjin invested $5 million in return for a 10 percent stake in Kidaptive, reports The Korea Herald. Kidaptive first entered the edtech market in 2012 with Leo’s Pad, a game-based learning app that offered mini-games and puzzles to assess cognitive skills in young children. Back in the U.S.,

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I Moved a Drone With My Mind. Soon Your Students Will Too.

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I stood facing the drone, about to face-off with a little robot. When I asked David Pearson, a British clinical psychologist who works with children facing adversity, if regular mindfulness practice would have helped me fly my drone his answer was “Yes, it would.” My mind-control-drone-moving experience was nothing like this.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

“Fake news,” “robots coming for our jobs,” “the new economy,” “surveillance capitalism,” “personalization,” “the cult of innovation,” and so on – these are all narratives intertwined in the power of major technology companies, platforms, data, and algorithms.

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Jose Ferreira Steps Down as Knewton CEO, Eyes Next Education Startup

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Learn more about its different definitions and applications in our special report on adaptive learning. These partners range from household names such as Pearson and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, to upstarts like Waggle. It’s a dubious assertion, although the company did try to trademark the term.).

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Of OER and Platforms: Five Years Later

Iterating Toward Openness

To the best of my knowledge there is no one really working on next gen OER – OER that are interactive, simulative, really rich with multimedia AND combined with OAR [open assessment resources] that drive diagnosis, remediation, and adaptation. We think platforms like Pearson’s MyLab and Cengage’s MindTap are the enemy.

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Of OER and Platforms: Five Years Later

Edsurge

To the best of my knowledge there is no one really working on next gen OER—OER that are interactive, simulative, really rich with multimedia AND combined with OAR [open assessment resources] that drive diagnosis, remediation, and adaptation. There’s certainly no one funding next gen OER. No 5Rs and no open pedagogy.

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