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ACT Bets Big on Analytics, Adaptive Learning With $7.5M Investment in Smart Sparrow

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In recent years, the nonprofit has invested in several education technology efforts around learning analytics and adaptive learning. The College Board, which administers the other standardized test, the SAT, partnered with Khan Academy in 2016 to offer free test-prep materials. Its latest: a $7.5

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Reading Students Through a Tech Lens

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Looking at variables such as student connectivity (and when that happened), virtual engagement, time spent on learning events and access to collaboration and productivity tools like Google Suite, Zoom and Khan Academy informed approaches to instruction and support systems. Dr. Neufeld has an M.B.A.

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The Stories We've Been Told (in 2017) about Education Technology

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All this happened in the larger context of news from the US school system itself. Education Data and Learning Analytics. Khan Academy. and the scaling back of investigations into civil rights violations in schools. The Battle to Open Textbooks. The Platforming of Education. Automation and Artificial Intelligence.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via Inside Higher Ed : “An Education Department plan to begin cutting large debt collection firms out of the student loan system is on hold after Congress warned against move.” Via Wired : “How Silicon Valley Fuels an Informal Caste System.” ” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed.

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Top Ed-Tech Trends: A Review

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So we must, I think, look at the more insidious ways in which various technologies are slowly altering our notions of knowledge, expertise, and education (as practices, as institutions, as systems) – and ask who’s invested in the various futures that education technology purports to offer. Education Data and Learning Analytics.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Clickers” are definitely not new — indeed, in my research for Teaching Machines , I found examples of classroom response systems dating back to the 1950s. As we move forward with new technologies in learning analytics, how and who will be evaluating the claims that people put forward?”. Course Signals.

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