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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

Edsurge

If few students answer the question correctly, the software can flag the professor, or the textbook author, to consider revising the content to make it clearer. The second is to improve strategies for how students take in that information and retain it. That’s referred to as the cognitive aspect. Acuitus’s earliest client was the U.S.

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Next Week - The Library 2.0 "Emerging Technology" Mini-Conference - All Keynotes and Sessions Posted!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

His research into technology-enhanced learning has led to many software development projects within library settings and provides unique insights into new student’s expectations and needs and helps inform the work that he does as the Orientation Services and Environments Librarian for undergraduate students at the University of Illinois.

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‘Our Technology Is Our Ideology’: George Siemens on the Future of Digital Learning

Edsurge

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. Rise of the robots Siemens has both an academic and an industry perspective on digital learning.

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Machine Teaching, Machine Learning, and the History of the Future of Public Education

Hack Education

MOOCs were going to change everything. My favorite ludicrous claim remains that of Knewton’s CEO who told NPR in 2015 that his company was a “mind reading robot tutor in the sky.” How to resist: demand algorithmic transparency in all software systems used by public entities, including schools. ”).

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) It may be the hardware or the operating system (OS), even a web browser or other underlying software, as long as the program code is executed in it. I mean, one of its founders celebrated.

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The Trends and Challenges Shaping Technology Adoption In Schools

MindShift

The report focuses on how deeper learning can once again deepen student engagement with ideas and problem-solving: “Pedagogical approaches that shift the dynamic from passive to active learning allow students to develop ideas themselves from new information and take control of how they engage with a subject.”. DEVELOPMENTS IN ED TECH.

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Storms over liberal education: notes on the 2016 AAC&U conference

Bryan Alexander

I kicked things off with a survey of major technological developments in a very top level way, then dived into specific, currently used digital tools (the LMS, ePortfolios, video, robotics, big data, social media, 3d printing, etc.). That meant open source software, open education resources, and open access in scholarly publication.