Edsurge

DECEMBER 2, 2016

This year’s cohort, whose products range from game-based learning to AI-generated flashcards, has a lot to be excited about. It’s free for students, but the software isn’t free for all—teachers must pay $7 a year and Pro users pay $29 annually. Based in Honolulu, Hawaii, Comprend.io FlashGrade, a D.C.-based

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 25, 2016

As one anecdote to consider, Kamenetz mentioned a new product, which provides surveillance software for K-12. The company making this software claimed as an achievement to have prevented three suicides by detecting self-harm signals through pupils’ digital activity. This works in a low-stakes settings, like a MOOC.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Similarly, while the term “personalized learning” has been used among educators for a long time, its presence in this report as a “thorny challenge” indicates that merely adapting the pace of a student’s learning with software doesn’t achieve the full potential of what it means to make learning personal.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

” Game-Based Learning. Learning through games (from physical to digital). The application of game-like “encouragement” mechanics to non-game entities. Put another way, it is making a game out of something that’s not. Mobile Learning. Gamification. Genius Hour.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 23, 2019

That’s why stories about the golly-gee-whiz prospects of learning to code, game-based learning, social emotional learning, artificial intelligence, blockchain transcripts, and tutoring — by chatbots or by gig workers — still fill the pages of these publications. Something about "learning engineers".

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Brown University joins edX. “ Y Combinator MOOC for Tech Startups Attracts Thousands of Views,” says Campus Technology. Not sure why this is called a MOOC. I wrote about social-emotional learning (algorithms) as a “trend to watch.”

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Something something Brexit something something MOOCs will save British higher ed. Closes $10m Financing Round To Help Improve Learning For All.” The “game-based learning platform” company has raised $16 million total.

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