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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. You can follow the podcast on the Apple Podcast app , Spotify , Stitcher , Google Play Music or wherever you listen.

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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. Education’s Proto-Platforms. If so, what are they?

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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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School of Me: Letting students study what they want, when they want is the latest education trend

The Hechinger Report

Baker, associate professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania and the director of the new Penn Center for Learning Analytics. But for that concept to work, a child must spend a lot of time on the computer, feeding the system with data that the software uses to improve itself.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 10 Edition)

Doug Levin

But.truth is, the US government isn't the early adopter here; Amazon, Google and Facebook are really the front-line developers of the surveillance state." " Hopefully, not shades of future conversations about learning analytics. " Hopefully, not shades of future conversations about learning analytics.

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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.