The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2018

is a for-profit company that sells data analysis to public schools. 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. Apps are increasingly common in U.S.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2020

This partnership expands its ability to support more schools and districts nationwide, increasing delivery of personalized learning and supporting equitable achievement for all students. Through seamless LTI or API integration, schools can leverage EdisonLearning’s courses and FocalPointK12’s advanced analytics, all in one place.

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ProfHacker

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

I can see evidence around me that AI (Artificial Intelligence), Analytics and Adaptive Learning are being pushed in the education field, but I have a strong aversion to all of them, mainly on ethical grounds. Collecting Data: Bias, Surveillance & Control. Safiyya Noble’s work on Google).

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Organizations like the Clayton Christensen Institute, RAND Corporation, and the Brookings Institution often publish reports and research on educational trends, providing data-driven perspectives. This data-driven approach supports personalized instruction and helps educators make informed decisions about students’ learning paths.

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Trends Education Robotics Blended Learning 52

Iterating Toward Openness

JULY 23, 2018

Learning analytics, on the other hand, can provide great insight into where course materials – including OER – are not effectively supporting student learning. However, that permission gives you no insight into what needs to be improved. As you might imagine, this process can be incredibly time-consuming.

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OER Learning Analytics Analysis Course 63

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. Increased security has been a huge benefit of SSO; it secures all of our critical data in one fell swoop.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2019

Among the software slated to be released under an open-source license is the university’s pioneering adaptive-learning project, the Open Learning Initiative , as well as a learning analytics platform LearnSphere. She has studied the reluctance that many professors have to turning to research to improve their teaching.

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2017

After making a few rounds in the behemoth expo hall, we’ve rounded up the ones that made our ears perk up and what edtechies should look out for: Big news from the blue chips OGLING GOOGLE UPDATES: With over 70 million G Suite for Education users, Google’s education tools dominate U.S. classrooms. MICROSOFT CLASSROOM IS NO MORE.

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EdTech4Beginners

MAY 10, 2018

Education technology platforms like Study.com use Virtual Classrooms to seamlessly integrate teacher feedback, dynamic learning, analytics, and personalization when assigning homework. Assignments from virtual classrooms can also be shared on other learning management systems like Google Classrooms, Blackboard, and Schoology.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2016

MAKING THE DATA ENGINE WORK: Unlike spiking interest in MOOCs or even competency-based models, interest in institutional and learning analytics has maintained a “slow and steady burn,” said Tyton Partners’ Adam Newman. We’re only at the tip of the iceberg with learning analytics. Samsung’s Bio-Processor.

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Learning Analytics MOOC E-rate Trends 60

Shake Up Learning

MARCH 14, 2023

A quick Google search will reveal many other warnings and predictions he has made about AI. If you Google the “dark side of GPT,” this should make you pause before using this in the classroom. Although this quote mentions Microsoft, the same would apply to Google applications and many others. More on that below.)

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Robotics Learning Analytics Technology Policies 91

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow. ” Those “countless needs and niches” can be met thanks to all the data generation and data collection that happens on them. Platforms are “an extractive apparatus for data.”

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

JANUARY 6, 2023

This is a reprint from a series of posts I'm currently doing on data science in teaching, over at Medium. When it comes to learning data science, that’s easy for me, because I had no actual expertise to begin with when I started learning the subject in earnest this past summer. Although I have a Ph.D.

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Data Blackboard Learning Libraries 59

Edsurge

MAY 28, 2019

Institutions have access to more student data than ever before—but it's hard to really grasp what that means, since many of the digital tools that colleges use are from third parties or companies that keep their algorithms private. So you decided you would start looking into some of the data that the system had collected on you?

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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.).

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Software LMS Microsoft Company 132

Hack Education

JUNE 14, 2016

Learning analytics is often framed as a “hot new trend” in education. Thanks to new technologies, we do have more data now to feed these measurements and assessments. Google’s origins are at Stanford. Computers, in many many ways, are simply an extension of this. But it’s actually quite an old one.

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

” Via The New York Times : “ Google Pledges $300 Million to Clean Up False News.” ” Via Poynter : “ Poynter receives $3 million from Google to lead program teaching teens to tell fact from fiction online.” Data, Surveillance, and Information Security. Colleges ,” according to Bloomberg.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 23, 2021

Data: The Driving Force. Evidence of student learning, achievement and engagement is more pronounced and easier to manage in schools. But analytics tools, like CatchOn and Gaggle, helped schools and districts during the pandemic to aggregate data to monitor how learners fared digitally.

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Khan Academy Data Industry Learning Analytics 53

Hack Education

APRIL 7, 2017

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. Students often find themselves uploading their content – their creative work – into the learning management system (the VLE).

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Technology Education VLE Industry 72

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2017

Baker, associate professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania and the director of the new Penn Center for Learning Analytics. But for that concept to work, a child must spend a lot of time on the computer, feeding the system with data that the software uses to improve itself.

Trends 40

Trends Study Knewton Personalized Learning 40

Learning with 'e's

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

From the report comes an explanation of learner analytics: Learner analytics loosely joins a variety of data gathering tools and analytic techniques to study student engagement, performance, and progress in practice, with the goal of what is learned to revise curricula, assessment and teaching in real time.

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Learning Analytics Data Mobility Report 55

MindShift

JANUARY 25, 2017

But for that concept to work, a child must spend a lot of time on the computer, feeding the system with data that the software uses to improve itself. Baker, associate professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania and the director of the new Penn Center for Learning Analytics.

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Personalized Learning Technology Knewton Learning 28

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. Next page: edtech trends 6-10: Better content, small data and neuroscience). It is one to watch for in 2017.

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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.

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Technology MOOC Trends Khan Academy 58

Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2018

Via Inside Higher Ed : “The budget bill President Trump signed Friday fixes a technical problem for private scholarship providers that rely on federal student aid data to help students pay for college.” From the Google blog : “ Chromebook tablets for versatile learning.” Upgrades and Downgrades.

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Education Robotics iPad Company 45

Hack Education

JUNE 9, 2017

The Google Ngram Viewer, which is also based on material in print, suggests the frequency of these two terms’ usage – “individualization” and “personalization” – looks something like this: In the late twentieth century, talk of “individualization” gave way to “personalization.”

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Personalized Learning Learning Course Handbook 83

Doug Levin

MARCH 12, 2017

But.truth is, the US government isn't the early adopter here; Amazon, Google and Facebook are really the front-line developers of the surveillance state." This from the school district that is still reeling from a major student data privacy breach. " Hopefully, not shades of future conversations about learning analytics.

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EdTech E-rate OER Coursera 170

Hack Education

JULY 13, 2018

Indeed, Edutechnica, which also tracks LMS data, responds with their own numbers and says that Blackboard still has about two hundred more installations than Canvas and about a million more students using the software. ” Via Edsurge : “ Britannica CEO Talks Google, Wikipedia and What Lil Pump Can Teach Us About Credibility.”

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Education Khan Academy Blackboard Report 43

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

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

DECEMBER 10, 2017

This is part five of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” As in previous years, it would be quite easy to fill a whole article in this series on “ data insecurity ,” on the data breaches and cyberattacks that continue to plague education – both schools and software. million students.

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Data Education Software Social Media 78

Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

Speaking of loans, Google will ban ads for payday loans. Data, Privacy, and Surveillance. ” [Insert Course Signals learning analytics joke here.]. .” ” [Insert Course Signals learning analytics joke here.]. They also demanded to view their personal data profiles by Sept.

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Education Pearson Report MOOC 52

Hack Education

MAY 4, 2018

Via Inside Higher Ed : “New Student Visa Data Show Overall Declines.” ” There’s more financial aid news in the privacy section below – because, you guessed it, data breach. Via GeekWire : “ Project Unicorn signs first companies to help schools handle the hairball of edtech data.”

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MOOC Education Robotics Company 42

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Educators Discuss Pros and Cons of Learning Analytics.” ” Inside Higher Ed also looks at how data is being talked about at the higher ed ed-tech event. Via Vice : “ Google Docs Is Randomly Flagging Files for Violating Its Terms of Service.” ” From Edsurge : “​Invasive or Informative?

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Education Facebook Company Robotics 48

Hack Education

MAY 27, 2016

And speaking of copyrighting a language of a warlike people, the Oracle v Google case had its closing arguments this week. On Thursday, the judge gave Google the victory , ruling that the company’s use of the Java API fell under fair use provisions. ’ ” Data, Privacy, and Surveillance. Instead, it shames them.”

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Education MOOC Common Core Trends 52

Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2017

Via Inside Higher Ed : “The Department of Education has released data showing there were 539 institutions placed on heightened cash monitoring as of Dec. More about the politics of education data – particularly regarding undocumented students – in the data and surveillance section below. More via Bloomberg.

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MOOC Education Robotics Report 40

Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

Via Inside Higher Ed : “The federal government is set to release data reports designed to help measure the performance of accrediting agencies , with metrics such as the graduation rates, debt, earnings and loan repayment rates of students who attended the colleges the accreditors oversee.” Data, Privacy, and Surveillance.

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Coursera Education E-rate Company 60

Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

.” I tweeted that the DACA database is one of the most important issues in ed-tech right now, and if you’re an ed-tech entrepreneur who says “nobody in ed-tech tracks immigration data,” you need to GTFO. Via Education Week : “ Mississippi Attorney General Sues Google Over Student-Data Privacy.”

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Education Coursera Robotics E-rate 40