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When Bots Go to Class

Edsurge

A few weeks ago, Ferris State University made a splashy announcement that it planned to enroll two chatbot “students” in its classes, calling it a novel way for colleges to test their curricula. In fact, the experiment at the Michigan public college could be said to mark a new generation in an area known as “ learning analytics.”

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Reflections on 50 years of Game-Based Learning (Part 3)

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More than 50 years after Don Rawitsch introduced Oregon Trail in his eighth grade class, the debate continues : Can games become a legitimate tool for learning? Proponents of game-based learning have good reason to be optimistic—but also cautious. Proponents of game-based learning have good reason to be optimistic—but also cautious.

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The Still-Evolving Future of University Credentials

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Five years ago, I published a book on the future of university credentials, making some predictions about what seemed likely to come next in the market for degrees and emerging forms of alternative college credentials. What The Chronicle of Higher Education christened a “ credentials craze ” was in full swing.

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What My Girls Camp Reveals About the Promise of Women in STEM and the Dangers of Online Hate

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CompuGirls was founded in 2006 by Dr. Kim Scott and introduces adolescent girls to the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) through culturally responsive practices and social justice. As a millennial, I emerged from adolescence with a relatively small digital footprint. Wait, what?!”

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Schedule Announced - Thursday's "Libraries and Privacy" Library 2.0 Mini-Conference

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Our third Library 2.022 mini-conference: " Libraries and Privacy: Critical Issues for Information Professionals ," will be held online (and for free) on Thursday, October 13th, 2022, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Time. in library, archival, and information science from The University of British Columbia in 2020.

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Tech Apprenticeships Shift the Costs of Higher Ed From Students to Employers

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For decades, companies have offered more or less the same deal to Americans in search of office jobs: You pay for your own higher education and skills training, and then we’ll consider employing you. More companies are assuming the costs and risks of preparing people for entry-level technology roles by offering apprenticeships.

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OPINION: U.S. public schools should be federally funded

The Hechinger Report

Education funding is like any other public infrastructure investment. Even as distance-education removes the spatial component from public education — lessons no longer happen in a particular classroom, or at a particular school, but on the (ostensibly worldwide) web — these lines still separate children from one another.