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What Did SXSWedu Have to Say About Adult Learning?

Digital Promise

Salesforce and LinkedIn/Lynda.com talked about how their learning platforms help adults learn skills via personalized pathways. However, the focus was more on how to build middle skills rather than on building foundational skills. As we outline in our latest report , the adult learning ed-tech market is complex and evolving.

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As Campuses Move to Embrace OER, College Libraries Become Key Players

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Even when professors are convinced to try open educational resources, for instance, they often have questions, such as how to find them and how to tell which ones are high-quality. She also tracks how well OER is working in the courses that use them, and tallies up how much money the efforts are saving students.

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?Blockchain, Bitcoin and the Tokenization of Learning

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Take LiveEdu , for example, a Y Combinator-backed online learning company that touts itself as being the “next-gen Lynda.com,” referring to a platform that offers online courses and skills training. Not to mention platforms like YouTube have no shortage of free how-to videos).

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Join this interactive session to learn how to get started with game-based learning with your own students. This webinar will cover what to look for in a game, where to get good games for learning, and strategies to integrate games into the system of a classroom. Register for free at [link].

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Media Literacy Resources for Classrooms

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The Ontario Curriculum (by the Ontario Ministry of Education): Maybe the best example of how to weave media literacy fundamentally into primary and secondary school curricula. Media Production Lesson s (by MediaSmarts): Browse MediaSmart's lessons focused on creating media ranging from videos to news reports.

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

Hack Education

” But of course, that’s not quite true: my first introduction to Papert's work was actually a decade earlier, when I sat at an Apple II and taught a Turtle how to move about the screen. Michael Teitelbaum, a scholar on the history of STEM, said in 2014 to an audience of education reporters that the post-war U.S.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

.” In other Department of Education bureaucratic nightmares, “Dozens of Colleges’ Upward Bound Applications Are Denied for Failing to Dot Every I,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. Testing, Testing… “Nation’s Report Card Finds Mixed Grades For U.S. ” Immigration and Education.