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Live Thursday, February 2nd - Panel on Personal Learning Profiles

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

She did it with My eCoach as early as 1999 — way before there were blogs, wikis, Twitter or Facebook. Now with multiple opportunities to network using social media and join various online communities, teachers and learners are confused. Shannon can be found at @shannonmmiller on Twitter and online at shannonmmiller.com.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

But Posterous, if you’ll recall, was acquired by Twitter in 2012 and shut down one year later. ” In reviewing Srnicek’s book in March, New York Times media journalist John Hermann wrote , Platforms are, in a sense, capitalism distilled to its essence. They’re amazing.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

[link] ET@LKING: RETRIBALIZING, LITERARY STYLE: VIRTUAL BOOK CLUBS AND BOOKCASTS (AUSTRALIA SERIES) Wed 27 Oct 05:00AM New York / Wed 27 Oct 09:00AM GMT / Wed 27 Oct 07:00PM Sydney Anne Mirtschin. It uses Mahara as its open source ePortfolio platform, working in tandem with Moodle, the open source learning management system.

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10 Tools for Increasing Engagement in Online Courses

Nik Peachey

In the initial rush to get learning online many organisations got themselves a Moodle platform and then attached a whole load of PDFs and.docs, added some forums and the odd video clip and called it an online course. You can easily pull in comments from Facebook, Twitter or Google searches as well as a range of other social media sources.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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. “ ICE officials have invited tech companies, including Microsoft , to develop algorithms that will track visa holders’ social media activity ,” ProPublica reports. Schools should consider the ways in which their own social media surveillance re-inscribes these sorts of violent, nationalist policies.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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The Huffington Post filed Twitter’s response to Ivanka Trump ’s announcement under “comedy.” “ Do Medical Schools Still Need Books? The LMS Moodle has raised $6 million in its first ever round of venture funding. Technology, Education, and the Media.” 2 Post at Ed. ” asks Edsurge.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via The Guardian : “ Student Loans Company ‘spied on vulnerable students’ social media’ ” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. Or just have them read a book. Also from Feldstein : “ Moodle and Blackboard Cut Ties.” ” Not sure we needed emails to know this, but hey.