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‘Our Technology Is Our Ideology’: George Siemens on the Future of Digital Learning

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A researcher, theorist, educator, Siemens is the digital learning guy. He’s credited with co-teaching the first MOOC in 2008, introduced the theory of “connectivism”—the idea that knowledge is distributed across digital networks—and spearheaded research projects about the role of data and analytics in education.

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Can Online Education Lower Costs and Improve Quality?

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Inspired by the breakout podcast Serial, four years ago two digital learning leaders at the University of Central Florida created their own podcast—focused on online learning instead of true crime. We could probably do multiple episodes on learning analytics, maybe there's a whole podcast about it out there somewhere.

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Top 8 Advantages of an Interactive STEM Curriculum

Kitaboo on EdTech

Related: How to Improve Student Learning Outcomes with Digital Learning. School is a place where students are allowed to learn, experiment and make mistakes. While it is alright to learn from one’s mistakes, sometimes the mistakes are too costly to bear. Provides an Opportunity to Experiment on a Virtual Platform.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?). “Ohio State collaborates with Apple to launch digital learning initiative,” the university announced in October. It’s a theme that runs throughout almost every article in this series.“Fake Students will receive iPads.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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In 2011, the Mozilla Foundation unveiled its “Open Badges Project,” “an effort to make it easy to issue and share digital learning badges across the web.” As we move forward with new technologies in learning analytics, how and who will be evaluating the claims that people put forward?”. Course Signals.

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