Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

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. But I am sort of all-in on analytics as a concept. Listen to the discussion on this week’s EdSurge On Air podcast.

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Omega Notes

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

In recent years, there has been a shift in higher education through the use of blended learning technologies. Some institutions in the industry have embraced this shift, but most colleges and universities have struggled to find a solution. Designers also struggle with the technological side of hybrid course design. By Brenden Thomas.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

A researcher, theorist, educator, Siemens is the digital learning guy. He’s credited with co-teaching the first MOOC in 2008, introduced the theory of “connectivism”—the idea that knowledge is distributed across digital networks—and spearheaded research projects about the role of data and analytics in education.

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Digital Learning Technology MOOC Learning Analytics 60

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Key points: Current education trends point to personalization and accessibility Keeping up with current trends in education is essential for educators Learn more about K-12 Tech Innovation News In the dynamic landscape of K-12 education, several trends are shaping the way students learn and educators teach.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2018

Speaking to an audience of researchers from the education industry last week at the Bay Area Learning Analytics Conference , held at the University of California at Berkeley, Deb shared how Chegg uses a Stanford-built tool to try to keep out students who just want an online tutor to do their homework.

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Fractus Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

And as many of these technologies do not monitor student performance, learning difficulties are not tracked or identified early; preventing intervention with supplementary and personalised supports. Tip Tap Tap (TTT) provides early years educators with interactive school desks combined with a Learning Content Management System.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 1, 2020

To adopt test proctoring software is to enrich an unethical industry. As we gather here today to raise funds for Ian, a learning technology specialist at UBC, we have to recognize, no doubt, how much surveillance and ed-tech affects teachers and staff as well. This should not come as a surprise. Technologies have histories.

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2018

Preparing for the regulation has been a dizzying experience for organizations across industries. is interacting with a college’s learning management system, or when a prospective student in Europe applies for admission to a U.S. For example, colleges will be governed by the rule when a faculty member working in the E.U.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow. million in venture capital from high profile names like LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and from firms active in ed-tech investing such as Learn Capital. ” Re-reading that article now makes me cringe.

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

From the press release : “IMS Global Learning Consortium Announces Open Badges 2.0 Ramona Pierson , the founder of Declara , is now the head of learning products at Amazon ( according to LinkedIn , at least). “ Does tech designed to personalize learning actually benefit students? The third: lifelong learning.

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MindShift

JANUARY 25, 2017

We have proven the fact that all children can learn — and can learn well — under the right instructional circumstances,” said Kenneth W. They decided to “personalize” learning for every child, which means that they tailored lessons to each student’s needs, interests and learning pace. What is personalized learning?

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Personalized Learning Technology Knewton Learning 28

Hack Education

APRIL 7, 2017

This was the first-half of a joint presentation at Coventry University as part of my visiting fellowship at the Disruptive Media Learning Lab. Students often find themselves uploading their content – their creative work – into the learning management system (the VLE). The better half was delivered by Jim Groom.

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Technology Education VLE Industry 72

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2017

A fifth grader works on a digital lesson as part of a blended learning program. We have proven the fact that all children can learn — and can learn well — under the right instructional circumstances,” said Kenneth W. Related: Must a classroom be high-tech to make personalized learning work? What is personalized learning?

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edWeb.net

JUNE 23, 2021

They wondered: Would it be possible for students to learn effectively outside of the classroom? Evidence of student learning, achievement and engagement is more pronounced and easier to manage in schools. The statistics highlighted: Learning and instructional gaps (with an eye toward equity). Online and far away.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

I’ve called this “the Top Ed-Tech Trends,” but this has never been an SEO-optimized list of products that the ed-tech industry wants schools or parents or companies to buy (or that it claims schools and parents and companies are buying). All this happened in the larger context of news from the US school system itself.

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Technology MOOC Trends Khan Academy 58

Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2017

The tools of data analytics have developed to the point where we can now mine this data and learn from our past experiences how to do a better job teaching and how to tailor education to the individual. What do can universities learn from the healthcare industry when it comes to innovation? People learn differently.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Not surprisingly, many of this year’s Top 10 focused on innovative ways to engage students, digital resources, and online and hybrid learning strategies related to post-pandemic teaching. This year’s 6th most-read story focuses on the predictions educators and industry experts made for learning in 2022.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

This means that despite all the rhetoric about “disruption” and “innovation,” what we find in technology is a layering onto older ideas and practices and models and systems. “Technology is a system. Education technologies facilitate communication, expanding learning networks beyond the classroom.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

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. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning. Textbook Publishers vs. Boundless.

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Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

Via The Atlantic : “Two radically different bills aim to overhaul [ Detroit ’s] beleaguered school system. Why Don’t All School Systems Do This?” Lots of goings-on this week in the loan industry. ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Nevada System Chancellor Resigns Over Email Flap.”

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Education Pearson Report MOOC 52

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

This year feels different too than the previous years in which I’ve written these reviews because education technology – as an industry – sort of floundered in 2016, as I think my series will show. Learning to Code. Education Data and Learning Analytics. Online Learning. Mobile Learning.

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Trends MOOC Khan Academy Maker Movement 40

Hack Education

MAY 4, 2018

Via Techcrunch : “Thousands of academics spurn Nature ’s new paid-access Machine Learning journal.” ” Entrepreneur.com repeats this old story : “ Personalised learning with the help of Artificial Intelligence will change the Education System.” Activate Learning has acquired Conceptua Math.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Via Alternet : “ Gavin Grimm Wants To Fix The Education System That Failed Him.” ” When you hear someone invoke New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina as a model, do remember what happened to all the Black teachers … Via the AP : “ Philadelphia moves to retake control of city school system.” But oh yes.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 10, 2017

A ransomware attack at a school system in Maine. More data collection will improve student learning and student outcomes. ” “The Higher Ed Learning Revolution,” as NPR put it: Tracking Each Student’s Every Move.“ 77 million users accounts stolen from Edmodo. million students.

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Hack Education

MAY 27, 2016

But you’re full of fallacy yourself if you think that’s going to stop me from making critiques about this industry. From IMS Global : “ Competency-Based Education and Extended Transcripts: IMS Global Learning Consortium Enabling Better Digital Credentialing.” Good grief. ” Accreditation and Certification.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

” “The Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education is engaging in a strategic review that will include weighing mergers and closings among its 14 universities,” Inside Higher Ed reports. ” Via EdSource : “New program aims to create more uniform standards among linked learning academies.”

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Department of Education Announces Requirements for New Federal Loan Servicing System.” Mozilla announced it is handing the Open Badges initiative to the IMS Global Learning Consortium. Via Campus Technology : “ Learning Objects Debuts Competency-Based Education Platform.” ” More via IHE.

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