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Polaris Recognized as Learning Analytics Solution of the Year

N2Y

Congratulations to n2y for winning the ‘Learning Analytics Solution of the Year’ award.”. Finally, maintaining and documenting compliance on a district‑wide, school, classroom, and individual student level is much easier when using Polaris. About EdTech Breakthrough.

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8 EdTech Trends to Watch Out for This 2020

Ask a Tech Teacher

From digital certificates to learning analytics, here are eight EdTech trends to look forward to in the coming months. Video-assisted Learning. Gone are the days when teachers had to drag TVs into classrooms to let students watch films. Now, nearly every classroom is at least equipped with a screen and projector.

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K-12 Dealmaking: Barnes & Noble Ed. Acquires LoudCloud; Volley Labs Raises $2.3 Million

Marketplace K-12

million, including drawing funds from Zuckerberg Education Ventures, one of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s investment vehicles. Dallas-based LoudCloud’s platforms include a competency-based courseware platform, a learning-analytics platform and services, an eReading product, and a learning management system.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

I was inspired, I think, to select that topic because talk of “platforms” was incredibly popular in Silicon Valley – it had been for a while – as companies strove to become “the next Facebook.” Think Facebook. Arguably, one of the best candidates is the learning management system.

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Many New Ideas are Quite Old

Mistakengoal.com

We’ve worried whether Google is making us stupid and we’ve often worried if Facebook is demeaning the value and meaning of friendship. Faculty wonder if their jobs are being increasingly outsourced to MOOCs and learning analytics funded by the Gates Foundation. The classroom remains the core of our enterprise.

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What College Students Wish Faculty and Admins Knew About Teaching

Edsurge

And often that’s because there is a disconnect between what students expect from college teaching and what actually ends up happening in the classroom. So, I think taking your students seriously, and acknowledging that they want to be there and that they are serious about being there, has made such a big difference in the classroom setting.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Lots of news this week about Facebook and Cambridge Analytica. But here are some education-related stories: Via Education Week : “Privacy Experts Assess Potential K–12 Fallout From Facebook ’s Crisis of Trust.” ” NPR asks whose bones made up those old classroom skeletons. Upgrades and Downgrades.