MindShift

JANUARY 25, 2017

They decided to “personalize” learning for every child, which means that they tailored lessons to each student’s needs, interests and learning pace. Last year, the founder of Facebook pledged to donate $45 billion to social causes, one of them personalized learning. What is personalized learning?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2017

Stephen Downes works in the Learning and Performance Support Systems program at the National Research Council, a multi-year effort to develop personal learning technology and learning analytics. While whole-class learning may seem old school, the fact is whole-class learning is a key aspect in the modern classroom.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

After all, Amazon knows how to run online marketplaces; Amazon knows how to sell texts. Michael Feldstein argued that the “meaninglessness” of Purdue’s claims were important for the ed-tech community to grapple with, in no small part because many other learning analytics systems had been modeled on the Course Signals work.

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Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

” Via Chalkbeat : “They rejected multi-state Common Core exams. “How Hard Is the New SAT ?” “ How George Mason Became Koch ’s Academic Darling.” Is Teaching Second-Graders How to Ride Bikes. ” [Insert Course Signals learning analytics joke here.].

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