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Can Online Education Lower Costs and Improve Quality?

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Not everyone thinks that’s possible, of course, and even Cavanagh, vice provost for digital learning at the University of Central Florida, admits that edtech can spark plenty of new ethical challenges along the way. We could probably do multiple episodes on learning analytics, maybe there's a whole podcast about it out there somewhere.

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‘Our Technology Is Our Ideology’: George Siemens on the Future of Digital Learning

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While machine learning and automation are obviating the need for learners to memorize content and develop routine skills, current edtech solutions still focus on helping learners develop these capabilities, he says. Rise of the robots Siemens has both an academic and an industry perspective on digital learning.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed. Education’s Proto-Platforms. It’s now an LMS too.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Billion Federal Block Grant Makes Ed-Tech Training Higher Priority Than Software, Devices.” Via The Guardian : “ Open University plans major cuts to number of staff and courses.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. There’s more robot news in the job training section above.

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Ed-Tech in a Time of Trump

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Of course, the future of education is always tied to its past, to the history of education. The word “intelligence” is also used, of course, to describe the gathering and assessment of tactical information – information, often confidential information, with political or military value.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” The scheme involved Ed4Mil , “an online correspondence course provider,” and a former dean of Caldwell University. ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” The survey was conducted by learning analytics company Civitas Learning.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Or the company will have to start charging for the software. There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security. And “free” doesn’t last. Um, they do.)

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