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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” It’s being positioned here as the first time Congress has funded open textbooks, but it’s not the federal government’s first commitment to OER. Via Inside Higher Ed : “Donald De La Haye started making YouTube videos long before he joined the University of Central Florida ’s football team.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

At the time, I wrote about the importance of APIs; the issues surrounding data security and privacy; the appeal of platforms for users and businesses; and the education and tech companies who were well-positioned (or at least wanting) to become education platforms. Platforms are “an extractive apparatus for data.”

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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.). Discussion connected my theme with Stephen’s via arguments about sustainability.

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Online Classes Get a Missing Piece: Teamwork

Edsurge

Sure, there are sophisticated online lectures where learners can see one another on screen and break out into small groups to chat via video. As students are learning about regression, they’ll collect pieces of data to analyze and plot on a graph, Ilowsky says. But these are still the minority online classes.

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Inspiring Students: Bringing Awe Back to Learning

A Principal's Reflections

Below is the one video of his that got me hooked. Data from a recent Gallop Poll shared and analyzed by Dr. Scott McLeod shows what many of us know - students are disengaged, bored, and disempowered. Jason Silva considers awe to be a pivotal ingredient in making ideas resonate. Excuse the pun, but you will be “awed” while watching it.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

And That Has Given It Some Eye-opening Data.” ” Via Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill : “ Top Hat ’s OER Announcement: Doubling down on faculty engagement.” ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Data, Surveillance, and Information Security. million total. ” asks NPR.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

“A recording of the way professors at Wilfrid Laurier University questioned a teaching assistant about her use of a debate video in class has set off a major dispute about academic freedom in Canada,” says Inside Higher Ed. The business of OER. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. The business of Peter Thiel.