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?Invasive or Informative? Educators Discuss Pros and Cons of Learning Analytics

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Technology staff at UC Berkeley said they didn’t know that was happening, though, since teachers were finding the tool on their own instead of a going through a university contract. By that he means there is no definitive formulation of the problem, no hand and fast rule, no agreed solutions and no ultimate test of the solution.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

Are any education technologies, for that matter? But first, a definition (or two) might be helpful. Andreessen’s definition does begin to get at some of the reasons why platforms have been so appealing to investors – ideologically as much as technologically. One might ask, I suppose, if LMSes are platforms.

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Why making, coding, and online learning are the real trends to watch

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Each year, a panel of education experts, convened by the New Media Consortium and CoSN, takes a deep dive into the trends driving ed-tech in every quarter, from Silicon Valley testing grounds to policy circles to actual classroom use. Sometimes the panelists get it right. Makerspaces eluded everybody until they showed up at school doorsteps.

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What College Students Wish Faculty and Admins Knew About Teaching

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In July, three members from EdSurge Independent, a student-run group that meets weekly to discuss ideas around higher education and technology, joined EdSurge Live to share what they wish faculty knew about students today, and propose ways to fuse instructional gaps. There was also a great deal of learning analytics attached to it.

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UMUC’s Blueprint for Designing a Culture of Constant Innovation

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Major organizational change—pivoting an institution and its policies and practices—is difficult. On the other hand, they need to avoid the tendency to measure everything to death, seeking definitive truth in the data detail and bogging the project and the team down with mind-numbing analysis. First, each organization is different.

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The Histories of Personalized Learning

Hack Education

I want us to think about the ways in which the history of learning – how we tell that story – shapes the future of learning, and how the history of technology (education technology and otherwise) – and how we tell that story – shapes the future of technology. They’re not meant to.

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Ed-Tech in a Time of Trump

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Or rather I’ve never believed the hype that we should put all our faith in, rest all our hope on technology. I’ve had a sinking feeling in my stomach about the future of education technology long before Americans – 26% of them, at least – selected Donald Trump as our next President.

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