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Online Learning's 'Greatest Hits'

Edsurge

From the very start of digital education, the big question has always been: ”How can students learn effectively, if they’re not face-to-face with their instructors?” The LMS market today is valued at $9.2 Hill conceded that while “it’s not sexy and is often bashed, without it, students can’t get their grades or find their assignments.”

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20 New Ways to Use Google Classroom [infographic]

The Shake Up Learning Blog

Google Classroom can be used for so much more than just your traditional classroom LMS. Discuss with the decision-makers at your school and/or your Google for Education administrator. Or one for the Robotics Club, National Honor Society, Made with Code, Girls/Boys Scouts, etc. Google Educator Groups (GEGs). You should be!

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

This is part four of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Way back in 2012, I chose “ The Platforming of Education ” as one of my “Top Ed-Tech Trends.” ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. Are any education technologies, for that matter?

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Storms over liberal education: notes on the 2016 AAC&U conference

Bryan Alexander

It was a powerful gathering of campus leaders and practitioners, organized around a common focus on liberal education. I helped start the conference with a half-day workshop on “How Technology Can Enhance Liberal Education: The State of the Art in 2016.” Preconference workshop.

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

Edsurge

Some people researching education technology might not spend their days wondering how their work fits into this existential question—but George Siemens isn’t "some people." That’s his explanation for how he thinks about the role of education in the 21st century. A researcher, theorist, educator, Siemens is the digital learning guy.

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Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics: Some Thoughts from ASU+GSV

Hack Education

I’m also working on a magazine article that’ll come out this fall on education technology and venture capital. But I’m curious how one forms that thesis in education. ” This happens all the time, of course, and not just at “business of education” conferences. .”

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The Stories We Were Told about Education Technology (2019)

Hack Education

Several months ago, I started to jot down ideas about what I'd cover in my annual review of what's happened over the course of the past 12 months in the field / industry /promotion of education technology. Coming soon: the Hack Education Ed-Tech Decade in Review). Dangerous practices and products are normalized.