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What Separates a Good Blended Learning Program From a Bad One?

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Much of our teacher professional development focuses on use of programs or tools, but falls short when it comes to imparting best practices around teaching and learning methods, digital and in-person instruction, differentiated assessment and data analysis. The best programs feature teachers who are strong in all these areas.

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How Academic Publishers Can Push the Boundaries of Digital Learning

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A recent Deloitte study found that digital content in a blended or flipped classroom allows for improved class management, more personalized learning for struggling students, and an increase in student engagement and grades. They are: Tagged with meta-data — For RLOs to be useful, they must be indexed properly with meta-data.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

It announced this week it has entered a “ strategic relationship ” with IBM , which will run its data centers and send out joint press releases making big claims about what IBM Watson can do for education. Data, Privacy, and Surveillance. “ Tekserve , Precursor to the Apple Store, to Close After 29 Years.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via Edsurge : “What’s Next for Pearson ? I guess it could also be a reference to the money to be made off of collecting, analyzing, and selling student data. Key Data Systems has acquired Progress Testing. ” Data, Surveillance, and Information Security. .” Some thoughts from Anil Dash.).