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Here's How Single Sign-On Saved One District 2,500 Hours of Instructional Time Per Month

Edsurge

Tam Nguyen Twitter: @TechGuyTam Orange Unified School District We wanted to alleviate those roadblocks so teachers could adopt instructional technology in the future. It’s definitely reduced the workload around here. Plus, we’re a BYOD environment. That’s huge for us as a bring your own device environment.

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Higher education technology predictions for 2014

Mark Smithers

There is a deep and vested interest in maintaining the course as the definitive container for learning. This is increasingly untenable in an age when you can learn many things in many different ways. I expect that learning analytics will be entering Gartner’s technology trough this year. I’m sure we will.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

But first, a definition (or two) might be helpful. If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed.

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Higher education technology predictions for 2014

Mark Smithers

There is a deep and vested interest in maintaining the course as the definitive container for learning. This is increasingly untenable in an age when you can learn many things in many different ways. I expect that learning analytics will be entering Gartner’s technology trough this year. I’m sure we will.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

It is the instructional designer and tenured professor’s signal — “to the barricades!” — and everyone snipes at the other side from the Twitter trenches for a week, until there’s an unspoken truce that lasts until the next “ban laptops” op-ed gets published. And everyone clicks and rages and snipes all over again. Course Signals.

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