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Hoping to Spur 'Learning Engineering,' Carnegie Mellon Will Open-Source Its Digital-Learning Software

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Among the software slated to be released under an open-source license is the university’s pioneering adaptive-learning project, the Open Learning Initiative , as well as a learning analytics platform LearnSphere. Carnegie Mellon has a long history of commercializing its digital-learning tools, though.

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Report: One of the Biggest Obstacles to Remote Learning? Finding a Quiet Place to Work

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With school plans for the fall focused less on reopening and more on resuming remote learning, the mixed experience with online instruction from the spring offers many lessons for how district leaders can better prepare for this next go around. And these tools generally require some training and preparation to be used effectively.”

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HE Challenges: Fast changing digital teaching methods

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Naturally, technology plays a central role in scaling quality education supply to meet this demand. While students may have an almost subconscious ability with social media, many are quite dysfunctional when it comes to leveraging online tools for hard, in depth research and learning.

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Behaviorism, Surveillance, and (School) Work

Hack Education

I was a speaker today at the #AgainstSurveillance teach-in , a fundraiser for Ian Linkletter who is being sued by the online test-proctoring software company Proctorio. In ed-tech circles, we call this "learning analytics," but it's less about learning than it is about productivity.).

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K-12 Dealmaking: GreatSchools Acquires Schoolie; n2y, Thrivist Gain Funding

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Schoolie’s school quality data will be incorporated into GreatSchools’ website in the coming months, and “will help parents more efficiently compare and evaluate academic rigor and understand how well schools provide access to a well-rounded education,” the companies noted in the statement. The amount of the investment was not disclosed.

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Marketplace trend update: 6 ed-tech developments

eSchool News

As educational institutions and employers move away from macro-credentials, Chalk & Wire , a higher education assessment platform, unveiled MyMantl , a Learning Recognition Network that will provide a way for learners, educators, employees, and employers to recognize and showcase a lifelong journey of learning. Read more.

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Not Just Numbers: How Educators Are Using Data in the Classroom

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loves the learning analytics available from Think Through Math program. “We We have a blended and personalized math program that meets the individual needs of students,” she tells EdSurge. For math, Lisa Palmieri, the Head of School at Holy Family Academy (HFA) in Pittsburgh, Penn.,

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