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Hitting Reset, Knewton Tries New Strategy: Competing With Textbook Publishers

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Knewton drew heaps of hype and investment by promising to provide artificial-intelligence technology to major textbook companies to make their content more adaptive. Now the company has pivoted, and it is poised to formally announce its own online courseware that will compete head-to-head with those publishing giants.

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ISTE Librarians’ Takeaways (Crowdsourced)

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For instance, Kasey Bell generously shared her own resource-packed presentations on her Shake Up Learning Blog prior to the conference. My own stuff and some resources. I was honored to join several esteemed colleagues to present on the panel: Leading the Charge: Leveraging Librarian Leadership to Support the OER Journey.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” It’s being positioned here as the first time Congress has funded open textbooks, but it’s not the federal government’s first commitment to OER. ” There’s more on legal battles involving student loan companies in the business of financial aid section below. ” “ Robot abuse ”?!

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Revisiting #ALATTT: Trend #1: AR/VR/MR and a touch of AI

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I thought I’d break my own two ish trends and resources into two posts. Next time around, I’ll share my notes on OER.). Companies are investing in immersive technologies. Resources: Donally, J. Can robots write our papers, especially when they are able to learn and master our writing styles?

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Forgetting Our History: From the Reusability Paradox to the Remix Hypothesis

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They lack what Giant Robot Dinosaur calls a Minimum Viable Personality. Contrast these resources with Why’s Poignant Guide to Ruby. You can actually distinguish this resource from the others. For example, take teaching materials about the Ruby programming language. So what are we to do?

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Highlights From a Year of Tracking Future Trends in Education

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Another surprise was a turn in public perception of giant technology companies, especially Facebook and Google, as well as Twitter and Amazon. Looking ahead to 2018, here are three predictions: First, we will probably see more work on the many ways automation (AI, robotics, etc.)

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via Chalkbeat’s Colorado news desk : “$35 million for school safety will go toward training, but not hiring, of school resource officers.” “ Can a For-Profit, Venture-Backed Company Keep OER Free – and Be Financially Sustainable? ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.