Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

I’m more hopeful that meaningful adoption of online learning can occur in traditional higher/tertiary education providers that are not universities. For example, colleges of higher and further education or the training and further education sector in Australia. Many MOOCs, for example, use learning material that are not actually open.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

But Posterous, if you’ll recall, was acquired by Twitter in 2012 and shut down one year later. Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?). The company sold The Financial Times and its stake in The Economist in 2015, for example. They’re amazing.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

JANUARY 6, 2023

in mathematics and 25 years' experience as a professor, including some background in Python, when I decided to get serious about learning R and data science (and learning analytics in particular) and attended the LASER Institute at NC State this year, I was starting from zero. Although I have a Ph.D.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

And yet it is naive and even misleading to pretend as though education technology exists separately from either of those – from the politics of DC, the politics of local school boards, or the politics of Silicon Valley, for example. Learning to Code. Education Data and Learning Analytics. The Business of Ed-tech.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). Certainly “free” works well for cash-strapped schools.

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Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

It was one of two social media messages – the other a Twitter photo of Tunsil smoking marijuana through a gas mark – that were posted during the NFL draft. ” The story above is just one recent example of technology entrepreneurs making claims that do not “add up.” From the HR Department.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 10, 2017

A hacked school Twitter account in Florida. I pointed to several historical examples of how the collection, categorization, and analysis of data led to discriminatory and even deadly political practices – racism and the US Census, for example, and the history of IBM and how its statistical analysis helped the Nazis identify Jews.

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Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

“ Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : ”Why Twitter Is Calling Abigail Fisher ’ Becky With the Bad Grades ’: A Brief Explainer.” “Examining ethical and privacy issues surrounding learning analytics ” by Tony Bates. ” Thank goodness for education journalism.

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