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Rivers, Executive Director Online Communities of Practice - Are They Worth it? Candidate VoiceThread for Digital Education - Kelli Stair- teacher/ writer An Example STEAM and Maker-Education Curriculum: From Puppets to Robots - Jackie Gerstein, Ed.D. Cantwell, Instructional Services Librarian (Asst. Torrey Trust, Ph.D.

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Securities and Exchange Commission for allegedly sharing five school districts’ private information with an advisory company while it was negotiating for the districts’ contracts.” ” Coursera, initially only emailing former students about their old course work, decided finally to blog about its platform change. .”

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” Via Inside Higher Ed : “The IRS data retrieval tool that let financial aid applicants automatically import income information into the FAFSA won’t be restored for the current aid cycle, said James Runcie, chief operating officer of the Office of Federal Student Aid, in written testimony to Congress Wednesday.”

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Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Edsurge : “ Coursera ’s First Ivy League Degree: An Online Master’s From the University of Pennsylvania.” ” ( Not mentioned : Penn was one of the very first investors in Coursera.). Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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Tony Bates looks at “Brexit and online learning in Europe.” “ Robots won’t replace teachers because they can’t inspire us.” ” That’s the headline describing a conversation between Recode and Coursera ’s Daphne Koller. ” Try learning styles, maybe.

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Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “A Corporate Learning Revolution” – a Coursera webinar. ” VCU’s Jon Becker writes “More about online learning in Virginia.” UNESCO on “Media and Information Literacy.” Are MOOCs webinars?

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Course Signals, a software product developed by Purdue University, was designed to boost “student success” by using learning analytics to inform teachers, students, and staff to potential problems, labeling students with a red/yellow/green scheme to indicate their danger in failing a course. Information is power. Course Signals.

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