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ACT Bets Big on Analytics, Adaptive Learning With $7.5M Investment in Smart Sparrow

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In recent years, the nonprofit has invested in several education technology efforts around learning analytics and adaptive learning. million investment in Smart Sparrow , a company that offers a platform used by many higher-ed faculty members and instructors to develop online, adaptive courses and simulations.

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Reading Students Through a Tech Lens

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Looking at variables such as student connectivity (and when that happened), virtual engagement, time spent on learning events and access to collaboration and productivity tools like Google Suite, Zoom and Khan Academy informed approaches to instruction and support systems. Dr. Neufeld has an M.B.A.

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The Stories We've Been Told (in 2017) about Education Technology

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I’ve called this “the Top Ed-Tech Trends,” but this has never been an SEO-optimized list of products that the ed-tech industry wants schools or parents or companies to buy (or that it claims schools and parents and companies are buying). All this happened in the larger context of news from the US school system itself.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via Inside Higher Ed : “An Education Department plan to begin cutting large debt collection firms out of the student loan system is on hold after Congress warned against move.” Via Wired : “How Silicon Valley Fuels an Informal Caste System.” The company has raised $20.4 Upgrades and Downgrades.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Or it will raise a bunch of venture capital to support its “free” offering for a while, and then the company will get acquired and the product will go away. And “free” doesn’t last.

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Top Ed-Tech Trends: A Review

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So we must, I think, look at the more insidious ways in which various technologies are slowly altering our notions of knowledge, expertise, and education (as practices, as institutions, as systems) – and ask who’s invested in the various futures that education technology purports to offer. Education Data and Learning Analytics.

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