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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. We could probably do multiple episodes on learning analytics, maybe there's a whole podcast about it out there somewhere.

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Higher education technology predictions for 2014

Mark Smithers

Incidentally, this power imbalance is one of the reasons mass adoption of online learning in higher education continues to fail. Universities will continue to get it wrong in transitioning to widespread use of online learning but they’ll continue to do very interesting things at the edges. Oh dear, where to start.

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Higher education technology predictions for 2014

Mark Smithers

Incidentally, this power imbalance is one of the reasons mass adoption of online learning in higher education continues to fail. Universities will continue to get it wrong in transitioning to widespread use of online learning but they’ll continue to do very interesting things at the edges. Oh dear, where to start.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

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. Instead, they’ve re-branded as job training sites.

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With Flip of a Giant Ceremonial Switch, CMU Starts Effort to Energize ‘Learning Engineering’

Edsurge

Then, he toggled the cardboard lever and declared open a new website , one that gave away software that took more than $100 million in grant funding to develop. It was an unusually theatrical moment for a gathering to announce the release of software tools to help professors improve their teaching.

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65 ways equity, edtech, and innovation shone in 2022

eSchool News

Here’s what they had to say: The demand for online learning will continue to grow in 2022 and possibly lead to the creation of virtual schools, which would introduce new AR and VR learning processes. The educational sector is now also appreciating the value of data analytics. –Joy Deep Nath, Co-Founder, SplashLearn.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

“ Can We Design Online Learning Platforms That Feel More Intimate Than Massive? Indeed, Edutechnica, which also tracks LMS data, responds with their own numbers and says that Blackboard still has about two hundred more installations than Canvas and about a million more students using the software. ” asks WBRC.