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Here's How Single Sign-On Saved One District 2,500 Hours of Instructional Time Per Month

Edsurge

Nguyen talked with EdSurge about how to support schools with bring your own device (BYOD) programs, why SSO boosts security, and how it saves his teachers 2500 hours of instruction time each month. How has SSO impacted your IT department? Want to see the math on how OUSD saved 2500 hours of instructional time per month?

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S3: A Holistic Framework for Evaluating the Impact of Educational Innovations (Including OER)

Iterating Toward Openness

Below I’ll define each component, describe how to calculate it’s value, and describe how to aggregate the individual values into an overall score. You could use it to measure the impact of “things” like learning analytics or iPads or augmented reality. There is nothing OER-specific about S3.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Steve Jobs wouldn’t let his kids have iPads. Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. Bill Gates wouldn’t let his kids have cellphones. Course Signals.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Quartz: “ Even Apple is acknowledging that the ‘ iPads in education’ fad is coming to an end.” Via Bloomberg Technology : “How Thync , Startup Behind Brain-Zapping Gadget, Almost Died.” “ Key Tensions in the Field of Learning Analytics ” by Bodong Chen.