Remove Company Remove E-rate Remove iPhone Remove Personalized Learning
article thumbnail

How Instructors Are Adapting to a Rise in Student Disengagement

Edsurge

In our first installment of this podcast series last month, I shared the scene from a digital media course where I saw students watching sports highlights on YouTube during a lecture, shopping for beds on Facebook marketplace and playing video games on their iPhones as the professor did his thing on stage.

Laptops 208
article thumbnail

A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 16 Edition)

Doug Levin

The pace of additions should be concerning to anyone who cares about personalized learning and/or student data privacy. If you are an Uber fan, time to get to know how the company really operates and question whether they deserve your business. It offers a more experiential learning experience. Oh, and unroll.me

EdTech 170
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 16 Edition)

Doug Levin

The pace of additions should be concerning to anyone who cares about personalized learning and/or student data privacy. If you are an Uber fan, time to get to know how the company really operates and question whether they deserve your business. It offers a more experiential learning experience. Oh, and unroll.me

EdTech 150
article thumbnail

Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

awards debt collection contract to company with ties to DeVos.” ” Via Buzzfeed : “Here’s How A Student Loan Debt Relief Company Preyed On Its Customers.” ” The company: the Student Loan Assistance Center. Blackboard’s Chief Financial Officer, Lisa Mayr, is also leaving the company.

article thumbnail

Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via Edsurge : “The Makings (and Misgivings) of a Statewide Effort to Personalize Learning in Massachusetts.” Via CNET : “ Verizon to pay $17M to resolve FCC, Justice E-Rate probes.” SoFi is the ed-tech company that has raised the most venture capital. Paul School Lunch Debt.”