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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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The LMS giant Blackboard celebrated its 20th anniversary this year. (I For updates on the other major LMS providers – or at least, dispatches from their annual conferences, read Mindwires’ Consulting on Instructure , Blackboard , and D2L. ” (Amazon Inspire is the company’s OER platform.)

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MP3 and MP4 versions will be available as well as the full Blackboard Collaborate recordings, although they take some days to process. Candidate VoiceThread for Digital Education - Kelli Stair- teacher/ writer An Example STEAM and Maker-Education Curriculum: From Puppets to Robots - Jackie Gerstein, Ed.D. Torrey Trust, Ph.D.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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“ Can a For-Profit, Venture-Backed Company Keep OER Free – and Be Financially Sustainable? ” (Note: there’s a response to this article by Georgia Tech professor Ashok Goel, who builds teaching chat-bots, in the “robots” section below. ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Nope, robots will not be doing this job of content moderation , as Facebook recently boasted at its developer conference. “ OER-Enabled Pedagogy ” by Lumen Learning’s David Wiley. Happy 20th anniversary to Blackboard. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” From the HR Department.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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The US Department of Education released its “ #GoOpenDistrict Launch Packet ,” encouraging schools to use OER. “ Robots won’t replace teachers because they can’t inspire us.” One company not using Amazon to run its computing infrastructure: Blackboard. ” Rebrand.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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“The RISE Package for R: Reducing Time Through the OER Continuous Improvement Cycle” by Lumen Learning’s David Wiley. “ Blackboard ’s Debt Grows While Canvas Gains Contracts,” says ELearning Inside News. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” More via the AP.

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The NAACP endorses OER. Inside Higher Ed examines the challenges facing LMS provider Blackboard. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Via CNBC : “Google exec, Mark Cuban agree that these college majors are the most robot-resistant.” .” (“What do we really know about the value of prekindergarten?”