Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2022

Educators expressed their displeasure on social media and in OER discussion groups, in part because of Course Hero itself, which some educators feel encourages students to cheat with the course notes and other materials posted there, but also because the deal wasn’t announced, and they felt that its parameters were unclear.

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OER Resources Education Course 130

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

Networking, both in-person and online through social media, educational blogs, video conferences, and forums, plays a crucial role. AI and Data Literacy With the AI revolution in full swing, teachers’ digital proficiency kit should also include AI and data literacy. Pearson, P. New York: Continuum.

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Study Outcomes Elementary Data 121

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

From facial-recognition cameras to web and social media filtering software, surveillance technologies are finding their foothold in schools across America. Beyond the Hype: Adopting Predictive Analytics : Data analytics can only be as useful as how well they’re implemented. Tuesday, March 5 11:00 a.m.

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Social Media EdTech Industry Pearson 103

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Before that, she founded education advisory company Quantum Thinking, was an entrepreneur-in-residence and senior fellow at the Gates Foundation, and worked for Kaplan, Pearson, Ellucian, Blackboard and Oracle. “I Employees also scan social media to see what’s working well and not so well for schools and colleges.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Our data suggests that CIOs are less part of academic decision-making than we would hope,” he adds. How might a sociology class analyze human interactions and behaviors on social media?). He challenged colleges to embrace efforts to share data such as how many graduates get jobs to show the value colleges deliver.

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Pearson Blackboard Survey Learning Analytics 60

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

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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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Learning with 'e's

DECEMBER 8, 2017

There are chapters on open scholarship, academic blogging, the use of smartphone and tablets, crowdsourcing data, developing a digital profile, getting started with Twitter, personal learning networks, and leveraging the power of social media, as well as my own chapter on 'Using social media for action research: the benefits and limitations'.

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Social Media Pearson Personal Learning Network Smartphone 10

Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

.” She posits gaming as the new site for “modern learning,” with an emphasis on skills training and data-driven self-improvement. How accurate is her data? (I’d You can find more data about “the business of ed-tech” – from 2017 and from previous years – on funding.hackeducation.com.

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Trends Coursera Company Personalized Learning 56

MindShift

JULY 27, 2015

Most likely not, but being inclusive, communicating your plan honestly and effectively, and supporting it with data will give you the best chance for success. For tweens and teens it can also include some time spent on social media. Will everyone buy into your plans for change? 2014; Hofferth & Sandberg, 2001).

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Social Media Outcomes Report Study 28

User Generated Education

MARCH 24, 2019

Interpret differences in shape, center, and spread in the context of the data sets, accounting for possible effects of extreme data points (outliers). It also explores new data from scientists and researchers where standards for measuring SDG targets are still being developed. Social Media Alternative.

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Common Core Analysis Pearson Data 183

TeacherCast

JANUARY 1, 2016

Having a service such as Dropbox or Google Drive is a perfect way to backup your data and keep your information safe. In 2012, Jeff was recognized as one of top 50 educators using social media at the first ever Bammy Awards and has been nominated three times in the category of Innovator of the Year.

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Education Pearson Twitter Android 68

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2017

Last year, the founder of Facebook pledged to donate $45 billion to social causes, one of them personalized learning. And various technology companies — from no-name startups to behemoths like Pearson — boast of new programs meant to facilitate this style of education. Eastwood, superintendent, Middletown City School District.

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Trends Study Knewton Personalized Learning 40

MindShift

JANUARY 25, 2017

Last year, the founder of Facebook pledged to donate $45 billion to social causes, one of them personalized learning. And various technology companies — from no-name startups to behemoths like Pearson — boast of new programs meant to facilitate this style of education.

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Personalized Learning Technology Knewton Learning 28

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Ethically aware learners understand issues like digital citizenship , data privacy, and the responsible use of technology. They are aware of the consequences of their actions in digital spaces, including social media, and understand the importance of maintaining a positive digital footprint. Int J Environ Res Public Health.29;20(7):5312.

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Elsevier Pearson Technology Software 137

Hack Education

DECEMBER 23, 2019

That's what a decade of ed-tech social media and PR have wrought: hashtag gurus and fake news. Pearson sold its US K-12 curriculum business for $250 million. Pearson said it would shift its strategy and make all its textbooks “ digital first ” (which you just know is going to cost students more). Spoiler alert: nothing.

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Technology Pearson Education MOOC 67

Hack Education

APRIL 13, 2018

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before Congress this week about privacy, data, monopoly power, and regulations. “Publishers Wiley , Cengage , Pearson and McGraw-Hill Education have won a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against a seller of fake textbooks ,” Inside Higher Ed reports. National) Education Politics.

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Education Facebook Edmodo OER 44

Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Via The Independent : “13-year-old girl arrested after contacting clown on social media and asking him to kill her teacher.” Data, Privacy, and Surveillance. Via the Stanford press office : “ Stanford explores case for code of ethics to tackle big data’s deluge in higher ed.”

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Education MOOC Report Khan Academy 63

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

” Via the Data Quality Campaign : “ Student Data Privacy Legislation : A Summary of 2016 State Legislation.” of Mississippi Students Stage Sit-In Over Racist Social-Media Post.” Google announced it was adding to search results about colleges and universities data from the U.S.

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Education E-rate MOOC Report 40

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

. “ ICE officials have invited tech companies, including Microsoft , to develop algorithms that will track visa holders’ social media activity ,” ProPublica reports. Schools should consider the ways in which their own social media surveillance re-inscribes these sorts of violent, nationalist policies.

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Education Khan Academy Company Training 44

Hack Education

JUNE 1, 2018

Via TPM : “No Test Left Behind – How Pearson Made a Killing on the US Testing Craze.” ” DonorsChoose data scientist Barbara Cveni? ” Kaltura has acquired Rapt Media. Data, Surveillance, and Information Security. ” Via Pew : “ Teens , Social Media , & Technology 2018.”

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Education Kaplan Robotics Schoology 47

Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2017

I have been busy with my year-in-review, but I will be updating my Horizon Report “data liberation” project with as much data as I can scrape from the NMC website before it all goes away.). Via Mindwires Consulting’s Michael Feldstein : “ Pearson Open Sources Equella – Properly.”

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Education Robotics MOOC Facebook 46

Hack Education

AUGUST 25, 2017

“New data, published by the Office for National Statistics and based on recently created exit checks at Britain’s borders, showed just 4,600 overstayed their visa last year. In the UK, “ Theresa May under fire as student visa myth exposed,” The Guardian reports. Estimates for previous years had been close to 100,000.”

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Education Laptops Company Report 46

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Via Inside Higher Ed : “The Education Department received about 28,000 applications for Public Service Loan Forgiveness as of June 30 of this year but so far has approved just under 300 applications for loan discharge, according to new federal data released Wednesday.” “ Can Pearson Sell Efficacy? ” Testing.

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Education MOOC Pearson Blackboard 58

Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Funding data about “learn to code” startups can be found at funding.hackeducation.com. And then there’s the advice from Pearson. ”) As Data & Society wrote in November , Pay attention to online gig work because it is dramatically reshaping our society. Computer Science For All.

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Technology Education Microsoft Industry 85

Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2018

Via The Guardian : “ Student Loans Company ‘spied on vulnerable students’ social media’ ” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. ” Via Edsurge : “With a Year of Crisis Text Line Data, California Community Colleges Launch Mental Health Program.” Sticks With Him.”

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Education Pearson Company Blackboard 43

Hack Education

AUGUST 31, 2018

Really great investigative work on Department of Education data on school shootings by NPR’s Anya Kamenetz, Alexis Arnold, and Emily Cardinali : “The School Shootings That Weren’t.” Thank you, big data, for giving people this insight. Data, Surveillance, and Information Security.

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Education Social Media Company Data 41

Hack Education

APRIL 6, 2018

.” Via Edsurge : “Data is Good – But Not Enough – to Improve Education, Says Baltimore City Public Schools CEO.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “The State Department is proposing to ask additional questions of visa applicants regarding their social media usage.” ” This is my shocked face.

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Education MOOC E-rate Facebook 45

Hack Education

JANUARY 18, 2017

I’ve never seen an education story receive quite as much attention from non-educators on social media. The Department of Education , under the auspices of “transparency,” promises more access to data about financial aid. ” Via Campus Technology : “ Pearson to Lower Cost of E-Books, Textbooks.”

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Education Pearson E-rate MOOC 40

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Politico looks at some of the data for-profit universities are disclosing about how they might fare under the “ gainful employment ” rules. million from Pearson Affordable Learning Fund (PALF), Samator Education, and CyberAgent Ventures. Data, Privacy, and Surveillance. Data, Privacy, and Surveillance.

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Education Common Core Company Facebook 54

Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

” 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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Kaplan Education Blackboard MOOC 46

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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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

Testing, Testing… Via EdWeek’s Market Brief : “British Officials, Pearson Probe Effort to Leak Test Content.” ” “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.

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Education Pearson Report MOOC 52

Hack Education

APRIL 3, 2017

Turns out that Pearson, which once funded and acquired a lot of startups, isn’t in particularly good financial shape itself.). More data collection. Now, it’s so very typically American to come to the UK to talk about ed-tech and to insist “oh really, it’s all about the US – our values.”

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Trends Company MOOC Edmodo 64

Hack Education

JULY 27, 2018

“ Are Universities Training Socially Minded Programmers? “ Was It Ethical for Dropbox to Share Customer Data with Scientists? ” Among the updates: “Now, institutions with data location requirements can choose where to store primary data for select G Suite apps.” ” asks Pacific Standard.

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Education MOOC E-rate Coursera 43

MindShift

MARCH 24, 2015

Consumer groups like Common Sense Media and companies like Microsoft have spoken positively of the bill. But some student-privacy advocates are saying it doesn’t go far enough in restricting what private companies can do with student data. I won’t be informed if there’s a data breach. Transparency.

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Student Data Privacy Data Khan Academy Pearson 28

Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2016

Facebook, like many digital technology companies, promises that in exchange for collecting your personal data – your name, your age, your gender, your photos, metadata on your photos, your location, your preferences, your browsing and clicking habits, your friends’ names – it will deliver “personalization.”

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Technology Pearson Education Facebook 73

Hack Education

DECEMBER 13, 2016

” The University of Northern New Jersey had a website – one with a.edu domain, to boot – as well as several active social media profiles. Financial data on coding bootcamps can be found on funding.hackeducation.com. The ACICS is the accrediting agency for many for-profits. Or it was.).

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Technology Education Secondary Pearson 40