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The Stories We Were Told about Education Technology (2018)

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And yet the education/technology industry (press) kept up with its rosy repetition that social equality is surely its priority, a product feature even – that VR, for example, a technology it has for so long promised is “ on the horizon ,” is poised to help everyone, particularly teachers and students, become more empathetic.

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The Teaching Machine Imaginary (And an Update on the Book)

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One of the realizations I’ve had recently, having chatted casually with various non-ed-tech professionals about the book – my eye doctor, for example, and my hair stylist – is that I need to have much richer descriptions of what the teaching machines actually look like and what they actually do. And so I type.).

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Online Learning's 'Greatest Hits'

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Neck and neck for the top spot in the LMS academic vendor race are Blackboard—the early entry and once-dominant player—and coming-up quickly from behind, the relatively new contender, Canvas, each serving about 6.5 million students. The LMS market today is valued at $9.2

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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What’s more, for each of these choices, there are additional decisions about which media to use (video, audio, hands-on), whether to give concrete examples, and more. That kind of feedback would be perfect if you had a robot learner on the other end,” he says. For students, this is a discouraging engagement, Lepper says.

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Connected Librarians Day (Free) Events - Monday, October 14th

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Panelists ( see panelist detail here ): Mark Ray - 2012 Washington State Teacher of the Year Gail Dickinson - AASL President Susan Ballard - former President of AASL Moderator : Britten Follett Blackboard Collaborate Room Link: https://sas.elluminate.com/d.jnlp?sid=2008350&password=LIB2013Part1

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How One University is Working to ‘Humanize’ Online Teaching

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For those teaching online courses, professors at California State University at Channel Islands have some advice: don’t be a robot. I was teaching in Blackboard, teaching art history and art appreciation in a text-centered environment. I felt disconnected from my students. There were so many issues.

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2016 Global Education Conference Starts Sunday - Important Information!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

You don’t need to be an expert in the Blackboard Collaborate platform to help (we give you training and then live help at the time), but it makes a HUGE different to presenters to have a moderator helper in their session rooms, and we try to make sure there is one for every session! Sears, M.A.,