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JANUARY 12, 2018

” From the press release : “ Blackboard Announces Organizational Changes to Better Serve Clients Worldwide.” Blackboard’s Chief Financial Officer, Lisa Mayr, is also leaving the company. . ” From the Blackboard blog : “ Advertising In Schools : This Parent Says It’s Time to Embrace It.”

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JULY 13, 2018

E-Literate claimed this week that “ Canvas Surpasses Blackboard Learn in US Market Share” – with some additional analysis about “What’s Important about the Blackboard Market Share News.” Canvas has two more installations than Blackboard in the E-Literate calculations?

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MAY 5, 2017

” Via Inside Higher Ed : “The IRS data retrieval tool that let financial aid applicants automatically import income information into the FAFSA won’t be restored for the current aid cycle, said James Runcie, chief operating officer of the Office of Federal Student Aid, in written testimony to Congress Wednesday.”

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JUNE 16, 2018

” Honestly, people, there is a thing called 'BitSchool' now, doing 'personalized learning solution' through a blockchain 'paid for use system' - how much b t can we take??!! ” Via the press release : “ Blackboard Bringing Contactless Student IDs to Apple Wallet for Campuses Nationwide.”

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JULY 27, 2018

“ Was It Ethical for Dropbox to Share Customer Data with Scientists? Good thing IBM Watson isn’t making any claims about “personalized learning” or partnering with beloved shows like Sesame Street. “ Blackboard ’s Debt Grows While Canvas Gains Contracts,” says ELearning Inside News.

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JULY 1, 2016

From the edX blog : “How to be a Better Learner: Determine Your Learning Style.” “ Robots won’t replace teachers because they can’t inspire us.” One company not using Amazon to run its computing infrastructure: Blackboard. month gives you a “personalized learning plan.”

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MAY 13, 2016

“Imagine Discovering That Your Teaching Assistant Really Is a Robot ,” says The Wall Street Journal in a story about “Jill Watson” (of course it’s a female name), an automated teaching assistant at Georgia Tech. Via Techcrunch : “ Lilwil ’s personalized learning engine teaches teachers how to teach.”

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JULY 28, 2017

Via The Daily Times : “Blount County Schools building new options to personalize learning.” ” Boy, it seems as though “personalized learning” is really just code for “virtual charter schools.” “ Should big data be used to discourage poor students from university?

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DECEMBER 18, 2016

Facebook’s Plans to “Personalize” Education. ” A personalized news feed, for example. And “personalization” is the underlying promise of the new education software Facebook is itself building. ” Data can be shared with any company that Facebook deems necessary.

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APRIL 28, 2017

Senators Introduce Bill to Keep Government Research Data Publicly Available (Preserving Data in Government Act).” For what it’s worth, according to the latest data from the NCES , the number of post-secondary institutions in the US has increased since 2011. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Shrug.

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DECEMBER 30, 2019

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Senate bill compels data collection on foreign-born college students.” Data dashboards. “ inBloom ’s collapse undermined personalized learning and data standards efforts,” says danah boyd. (I’m ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Via The NY Daily News : “ N.Y.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2018

” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “With Student Interest Soaring, Berkeley Creates New Data-Sciences Division.” “The Moodle / Blackboard Breakup: The Long and the Short of It” by e-Literate’s Michael Feldstein. ” Stop acting like “ self-directed learning ” is a new thing.

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APRIL 20, 2018

” From the ASU website : “Panelists discuss future of personalized learning.” I guess it could also be a reference to the money to be made off of collecting, analyzing, and selling student data. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Key Data Systems has acquired Progress Testing.

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MARCH 9, 2018

” “One Standardized Tests Provider Looks to Gaming and Personalized Learning to Innovate Exams” – Edsurge on ETS. A teacher in front of a blackboard. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Asteria Education has acquired the test prep company ECS Learning Systems. .”

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JULY 21, 2017

” “ Personalized learning ” equals cutting the teacher workforce in Oklahoma. Edsurge on “Bridging the School-to-Business Gap: What Public Schools Can Learn From Industry.” Via NPR : “Students Compete In First-Ever International High School Robotics Competition.” Competition.”

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JANUARY 26, 2017

.” I tweeted that the DACA database is one of the most important issues in ed-tech right now, and if you’re an ed-tech entrepreneur who says “nobody in ed-tech tracks immigration data,” you need to GTFO. Via Education Week : “ Mississippi Attorney General Sues Google Over Student-Data Privacy.”

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