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Trends to watch in 2015: education and technology

Bryan Alexander

Online learning, or the teaching formerly knows as “distance learning” Will this keep growing? Skepticism about the quality of online learning could migrate to the general population. Big data and data analytics : interest in this is widespread and has some hefty power behind it.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

Computing platforms have different abstraction levels, including a computer architecture, an OS, or runtime libraries. Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?). And then there’s Mark Zuckerberg’s venture philanthropy firm and its commitment to fund “personalized learning.”

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

Hack Education

Social Media, Campus Activism, and Free Speech. School and “Skills” MOOCS, Outsourcing, and Online Education. Education Data and Learning Analytics. Social Media: Adoption and Crackdown. The Digital Library. Online Learning. Mobile Learning. Beyond the MOOC.

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Top Ed-Tech Trends: A Review

Hack Education

Social Media, Campus Activism, and Free Speech. School and “Skills” MOOCS, Outsourcing, and Online Education. Education Data and Learning Analytics. Social Media: Adoption and Crackdown. The Digital Library. Online Learning. Mobile Learning. Beyond the MOOC.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

And like so many products on this list, 3D printing was hailed as a revolution in education, and schools were encouraged to reorient libraries and shop classes towards “maker spaces” which would give students opportunities to print their plastic designs. The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That).

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Testing, Testing… “ Common Core testing group wages aggressive campaign against critics on social media,” according to The Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss. “ Key Tensions in the Field of Learning Analytics ” by Bodong Chen.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Zion Market Research : “ Massive Open Online Course Market : Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends, and Forecasts 2016-2024.” “ The growth of online learning : How universities must adjust to the new norm” is sponsored content on Education Dive. The social media platform had raised $2.5

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