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Hoping to Spur 'Learning Engineering,' Carnegie Mellon Will Open-Source Its Digital-Learning Software

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In an unusual move intended to shake up how college teaching is done around the world, Carnegie Mellon University today announced that it will give away dozens of the digital-learning software tools it has built over more than a decade—and make their underlying code available for anyone to see and modify. But Kenneth R.

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3 lessons from data on how students are actually using educational apps and software at school

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classrooms but a study finds that students aren’t using much of the pricey software that schools buy (Photo by Jackie Mader). Higher test scores could be caused by things other than the online software like great teaching. Most software is drastically underused by schools. Apps are increasingly common in U.S.

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Against the 3A’s of EdTech: AI, Analytics, and Adaptive Technologies in Education

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One of the key things about the report is that we are asked to suggest what technologies we think will be highly influential in education in the far, medium and near terms. In some of the discourses surrounding these technologies, there tends to be a reduction of what a teacher’s role is. Misunderstanding of Teacher Roles.

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Behaviorism, Surveillance, and (School) Work

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I was a speaker today at the #AgainstSurveillance teach-in , a fundraiser for Ian Linkletter who is being sued by the online test-proctoring software company Proctorio. To adopt test proctoring software is to maintain a pedagogical practice based on mistrust, surveillance, and punishment. This should not come as a surprise.

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Can Online Education Lower Costs and Improve Quality?

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It’s called the Teaching Online Podcast, or TOPcast , and co-host Thomas Cavanagh says he is driven by his quest to figure out one of the grand challenges of higher education: how to use technology to raise the quality of instruction while lowering costs. But I am sort of all-in on analytics as a concept. How does that work?

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

Are any education technologies, for that matter? 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.

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?Updates, Upgrades and Overheard: What Was Unveiled at ISTE 2017

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Flocks of educators and entrepreneurs have made their way down to San Antonio this week for the mecca of edtech conferences, hosted by the International Society for Technology in Education—better known as ISTE. classrooms. MICROSOFT CLASSROOM IS NO MORE. Instead, educators will be able to use Microsoft Teams in Office 365 for Education.