Remove Data Remove Learning Analytics Remove Libraries Remove Social Media
article thumbnail

Trends to watch in 2015: education and technology

Bryan Alexander

Big data and data analytics : interest in this is widespread and has some hefty power behind it. Unless I see data to disprove it, I imagine we’ll just see more classes and class content items flipped in 2016. Libraries Many trends collide here, and really deserve a full post. From non-edutech trends.

Trends 40
article thumbnail

K-12 Dealmaking: Barnes & Noble Ed. Acquires LoudCloud; Volley Labs Raises $2.3 Million

Marketplace K-12

In addition, investment company Weld North Holdings acquired Performance Matters , a student assessment and data-analytics company that it will merge with K-12 ed-tech business Truenorthlogic, which provides data on teachers’ performance and tracks their professional development. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Udemy 40
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Inside a Student’s Hunt for His Own Learning Data

Edsurge

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?

Data 150
article thumbnail

Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

For example, this story from the School Library Journal : “ Charter Schools , Segregation , and School Library Access.” ” “ No, YouTube is not a library – and why it matters” by Sarah T. Data, Surveillance, and Information Security. Minnesota Confronts a National Quandary.”

article thumbnail

Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow. Computing platforms have different abstraction levels, including a computer architecture, an OS, or runtime libraries. A computing platform is the stage on which computer programs can run.

article thumbnail

The Stories We've Been Told (in 2017) about Education Technology

Hack Education

Data Insecurity. The Compulsion for Data. Social Media, Campus Activism, and Free Speech. Data and Privacy. Social Justice. Data vs Privacy. Education Data and Learning Analytics. Social Media: Adoption and Crackdown. The Digital Library. Personalization.

article thumbnail

Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” “Frustrated with how colleges have handled their claims of sexual abuse , more students are turning to social media to publicize their cases,” Inside Higher Ed reports. Data, Privacy, and Surveillance. The ALA has released library privacy guidelines for students in K–12 schools. charter school.”