Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2018

And that is a very conservative number, based only on time saved using the top six critical core web applications from Pearson, McGraw-Hill, PowerSchool, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and Google Classroom. We're looking at artificial machine learning analytics around security and digging deeper into ClassLink’s reporting features.

BYOD 160

BYOD Data Pearson Learning Analytics 160

Hack Education

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Microsoft and Google offer schools "productivity tools," for example, making it quite clear — I would hope — that whatever students or staff type or click on feeds into financial measurements of efficiency. In ed-tech circles, we call this "learning analytics," but it's less about learning than it is about productivity.).

Software 132

Software LMS Microsoft Company 132

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The company hired Ryan Baker, director of the Penn Center for Learning Analytics , and another data scientist to mine the data and create a national snapshot of technology use for the 2017-18 school year. Among the top one were Varsity Tutors, LearnZillion, Wikipedia, Brainingcamp, Google Classroom and TED-Ed.

Software 91

Software Data Education Company 91

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

” In his book, Srnicek identifies five kinds of platforms: advertising platforms (like Google and Facebook), cloud platforms (like Salesforce and Amazon Web Services), industrial platforms (like GE and Siemens), product platforms (like Spotify), and lean platforms (like Uber and AirBnB). Education’s Proto-Platforms.

Technology 62

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

Of course I have to start with MOOCs. Sustainable business models for MOOCs will emerge (this may mean changing the way we think of the course part of the MOOC acronym). We started to see MOOC like offerings emerge last year involving a fee for entry (a considerably lower fee than for the same traditional course).

MOOC 89

MOOC Technology Education Online Learning 89

Hack Education

JUNE 14, 2016

As part of the course, students are engaging in a “Great Ed-Tech Debate,” arguing one side or another of a variety of topics: that technology enhances learning, that technology is a force for equity, that social media is ruining childhood, and so on. Of course, public schools have always been viewed as failing.)

Company 67

Company Industry Assessment Examples 67

Mistakengoal.com

JULY 21, 2014

We’ve worried whether Google is making us stupid and we’ve often worried if Facebook is demeaning the value and meaning of friendship. Faculty wonder if their jobs are being increasingly outsourced to MOOCs and learning analytics funded by the Gates Foundation. But how old? When do you think this was this written?

MOOC 67

MOOC Conference Learning Analytics Facebook 67

Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

Of course I have to start with MOOCs. Sustainable business models for MOOCs will emerge (this may mean changing the way we think of the course part of the MOOC acronym). We started to see MOOC like offerings emerge last year involving a fee for entry (a considerably lower fee than for the same traditional course).

MOOC 32

MOOC Technology Education Online Learning 32

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

JANUARY 6, 2023

in mathematics and 25 years' experience as a professor, including some background in Python, when I decided to get serious about learning R and data science (and learning analytics in particular) and attended the LASER Institute at NC State this year, I was starting from zero. Although I have a Ph.D.

Data 59

Data Blackboard Learning Libraries 59

Edsurge

MAY 28, 2019

You can follow the podcast on the Apple Podcast app , Spotify , Stitcher , Google Play Music or wherever you listen. So maybe your participation grade in an online course is better than a student who would just log in quickly, log out. Listen to the discussion on this week’s EdSurge On Air podcast.

Data 144

Data Learning Advocacy System 144

Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2017

When our adult students came, other than giving them evening courses and a couple of offices that would be open until seven on Monday night, there was no support,” she says. We have 85,000 students around the world, and over a thousand courses. You are doing OER in a thousand courses? And that sent me on a mission.”.

OER 85

OER Course Learning Analytics Company 85

Hack Education

APRIL 7, 2017

Few would care, of course, except those of us struggling to make money in this “new economy.” Prince fought for a long time with record labels, and arguably that makes his response to the new digital “masters” – Apple, Google, Spotify, and such – more understandable. Of course, none of us are Prince.

Technology 72

Technology Education VLE Industry 72

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. This collaboration allows candidates to view theory in practice and makes learning on campus more authentic.

Trends 111

Trends EdTech MOOC Smartphone 111

Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2018

Via The Guardian : “ Open University plans major cuts to number of staff and courses.” From the Google blog : “ Chromebook tablets for versatile learning.” Speaking of Google , Wired reports that “Children’s YouTube is still churning out blood, suicide and cannibalism.”

Education 45

Education Robotics iPad Company 45

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Then there was the infamous anti-diversity memo distributed by Google engineer James Damore and leaked to the press this summer that charged that efforts the company (and the industry more broadly) had taken to address diversity were misguided as women are biologically ill-suited to computer science – which is, of course, totally b t.

Technology 58

Technology MOOC Trends Khan Academy 58

Hack Education

JUNE 9, 2017

“Personalized learning” can mean that students “move at their own pace” through lessons and assignments, for example, unlike those classrooms where everyone is expected to move through material together. They just use different words, of course: “outcomes-based learning,” “learning analytics.”).

Personalized Learning 83

Personalized Learning Learning Course Handbook 83

Doug Levin

MARCH 12, 2017

"This sort of pie-in-the-sky belief that simply getting more computers in kids' hands and more app-development elective courses in schools will make the future bright is an oversimplification of a complex issue." " Hopefully, not shades of future conversations about learning analytics.

EdTech 170

EdTech E-rate OER Coursera 170

Hack Education

JULY 13, 2018

” The scheme involved Ed4Mil , “an online correspondence course provider,” and a former dean of Caldwell University. ” Via Edsurge : “ Britannica CEO Talks Google, Wikipedia and What Lil Pump Can Teach Us About Credibility.” ” “How do children of color learn to draw themselves? .”

Education 43

Education Khan Academy Blackboard Report 43

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. Rafter, a course material provider that was an early advocate of and provider for this bundling of textbooks and tuition, closed its doors in 2016 , having raised more than $86 million.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

“Imagine Discovering That Your Teaching Assistant Really Is a Robot ,” says The Wall Street Journal in a story about “Jill Watson” (of course it’s a female name), an automated teaching assistant at Georgia Tech. Speaking of loans, Google will ban ads for payday loans. From the HR Department. Or something.

Education 52

Education Pearson Report MOOC 52

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Of course, Dick DeVos also works for Trump in a way – or at least, he’s now on an FAA civilian panel. The Australian company provides courses for schools that decide to outsource their educational services. ” Of course he did. Educators Discuss Pros and Cons of Learning Analytics.”

Education 48

Education Facebook Company Robotics 48

Hack Education

DECEMBER 10, 2017

More data collection will improve course design. More data collection will improve student learning and student outcomes. ” “The Higher Ed Learning Revolution,” as NPR put it: Tracking Each Student’s Every Move.“ “ Super users ” of certain ed-tech products demand more data collection.

Data 78

Data Education Software Social Media 78

Hack Education

MAY 27, 2016

For those keeping score at home, here are Peter Thiel’s ed-tech investments (in addition to his “I’ll pay you to drop out of college” fellowship program, of course): Clever, Lore, Thinkful, Declara, and SoFi. ” (That giant: Pearson , of course.). Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”).

Education 52

Education MOOC Common Core Trends 52

Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2017

Bob Thorpe, is proposing a far-reaching law in Arizona, House Bill 2120, banning virtually every college event, activity or course which discusses social justice , skin privilege, or racial equality. “ The growth of online learning : How universities must adjust to the new norm” is sponsored content on Education Dive.

MOOC 40

MOOC Education Robotics Report 40

Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

And of course current Undersecretary of Education, Ted Mitchell, is a former VC.) From the Coursera blog : “Coursera pilots a new course format.” ” More via I Programmer on Coursera ’s decision to remove old courses from its platform. .” Presidential Campaign Politics. weeks in 2015.”

Coursera 60

Coursera Education E-rate Company 60

Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

Via The New York Times : “ Google , in Post-Obama Era, Aggressively Woos Republicans ” – so enjoy that Google Certification, educators. Via Education Week : “ Mississippi Attorney General Sues Google Over Student-Data Privacy.” ” That’d be Hugo Barra , a former Google exec.

Education 40

Education Coursera Robotics E-rate 40

Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

” Google announced it was cutting jobs in its Google Fiber division. And Google has put plans to expand Fiber to more cities on hold. And Google is getting into the whiteboard business. Blackboard has acquired Fronteer , a software company that helps make course materials accessible. The CEO has resigned.

Education 40

Education Pearson Blackboard Survey 40