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Can Online Education Lower Costs and Improve Quality?

Edsurge

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. I do, and I think as the tools improve, they will become more ubiquitous and more effective. How does that work?

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

Edsurge

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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Top 8 Advantages of an Interactive STEM Curriculum

Kitaboo on EdTech

By providing them with enough knowledge and guiding them in the right direction, we will have more students opting for these branches of studies in future and developing many new innovative tools for the benefit of life around us. Related: How to Improve Student Learning Outcomes with Digital Learning.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

More often than not, these platforms also come with a series of tools that enable their users to build their own products, services, and marketplaces. Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?). It’s a theme that runs throughout almost every article in this series.“Fake

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Affluent students get to digital tools for creative exploration; poor students get to use theirs for test prep. 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.” Channel One (and the Unsinkable Chris Whittle).

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