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SXSWedu 2017: Ones to Watch and What to Know

Edsurge

Lightning Talks: When Learning Goes Digital : Join EdSurge’s Allison Dulin Salisbury (Director of Higher Education Strategy) and Jeff Young (Senior Writer) for a series of TED-style talks around what’s happening and what’s next for digital learning. and insights into how edtech can help schools support individualized learning.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

There may be no better example of this in 2017 than “personalized learning.” “Personalized learning” has powerful advocates, least of which US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos who talks about it as part of her broader initiative to “rethink school.” Manufacturing Trends.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

“ Purdue-Kaplan online university one step closer to reality,” the Journal & Courier reports. ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “ Andrew Ng , Co-Founder of Coursera , Returns to MOOC Teaching With New AI Course.” Via The New York Times : “U.S.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Nature : “One of the world’s largest science publishers, Elsevier , won a default legal judgement on 21 June against websites that provide illicit access to tens of millions of research papers and books. Via The 74 : “ Montessori Was the Original Personalized Learning. For-profit Hickey College will close.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Also Facebook ’s DC lobbyist, Joel Kaplan, who was sitting right behind Kavanaugh as he screamed at Senators. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Gotta keep that MOOC hype alive. “ MOOCs Find a New Audience with On-Campus Students,” Edsurge claims. Watch and see).

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

The story examined a proposed practice: “Colleges require students to pay a course-materials fee, which would be used to buy e-books for all of them (whatever text the professor recommends, just as in the old model).” And digital bits have replaced the need to cut down trees to make paper and waste ink to create those books.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

The former: Purdue University ; the latter: Kaplan University. ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Inside Higher Ed : “Lessons Learned From a Consortium That Fizzled.” Via The Guardian : “ Laura Ingalls Wilder ’s name removed from book award over racism concerns.”