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

Edsurge

And even before the management change, the company had quietly started building a huge library of courses bolted to its adaptive engine. The secret to its swift entry into publishing was OER (open education resources). And officials say that professors at 80 colleges are already trying the textbooks in their courses.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

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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Storms over liberal education: notes on the 2016 AAC&U conference

Bryan Alexander

I kicked things off with a survey of major technological developments in a very top level way, then dived into specific, currently used digital tools (the LMS, ePortfolios, video, robotics, big data, social media, 3d printing, etc.). That meant open source software, open education resources, and open access in scholarly publication.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

“ Can a For-Profit, Venture-Backed Company Keep OER Free – and Be Financially Sustainable? “ Do Online Courses Really Save Money? ” (Note: there’s a response to this article by Georgia Tech professor Ashok Goel, who builds teaching chat-bots, in the “robots” section below. million total.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Of course, much like the myth about “20% time,” I am sure educators will consider to cite this as a reason why schools should be more like Google. ” Via Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill : “ Top Hat ’s OER Announcement: Doubling down on faculty engagement.” ” Finally. million total.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

That’s not the story that DeVos wants to tell, of course.). ” According to WCET , “Developing Effective Courses Using Adaptive Learning Begins with Proper Alignment.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. IBM wants us to believe that Watson is incredibly powerful – powerful enough, even, to search 1000 OER.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

“Is there an elegant way to administer exams in online courses ?” ” Nope, robots will not be doing this job of content moderation , as Facebook recently boasted at its developer conference. “ OER-Enabled Pedagogy ” by Lumen Learning’s David Wiley. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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