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8 EdTech Trends to Watch Out for This 2020

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From digital certificates to learning analytics, here are eight EdTech trends to look forward to in the coming months. Video-assisted Learning. Data Analytics. This grants schools more insight into their learning behavior, which then helps teachers come up with more effective curriculums in the future. 3D Printing.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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I was inspired, I think, to select that topic because talk of “platforms” was incredibly popular in Silicon Valley – it had been for a while – as companies strove to become “the next Facebook.” ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. Think Facebook.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Inside Higher Ed : “Analysis of Georgia Tech ’s MOOC-inspired online master’s in computer science suggests that institutions can successfully deliver high-quality, low-cost degrees to students at scale.” “Many are never the same.”

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The Stories We've Been Told (in 2017) about Education Technology

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Beyond the MOOC. Social Media, Campus Activism, and Free Speech. School and “Skills” MOOCS, Outsourcing, and Online Education. MOOCs and Anti-MOOCs. Learning to Code. Education Data and Learning Analytics. Social Media: Adoption and Crackdown. Indie Ed-Tech.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Via The New York Times : “ Facebook ’s Push for Facial Recognition Prompts Privacy Alarms.” ” The survey was conducted by learning analytics company Civitas Learning.

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Top Ed-Tech Trends: A Review

Hack Education

Here we are with a President-Elect – a reality TV star – who has been supported by white nationalists, the KKK, Wikileaks, trolls, and Peter Thiel, who election was facilitated through a massive misinformation campaign spread virally through Facebook. Beyond the MOOC. Social Media, Campus Activism, and Free Speech.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning. In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. There was a regularly updated Facebook page, a Twitter account, as well as a LinkedIn profile for its supposed president.

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