Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 29, 2015

I’m building on previous posts about trends in technology and educational contexts , plus my FTTE report, naturally. Online learning, or the teaching formerly knows as “distance learning” Will this keep growing? The forthcoming Horizon Report thinks BYOD is one of the two major tech trends for 2016.

Trends 40

Trends Technology MOOC Education 40

Marketplace K-12

MARCH 14, 2016

Barnes & Noble Education Buys LoudCloud Systems: The college bookstore operator and provider of digital education services has acquired LoudCloud Systems, a digital platform and analytics provider to clients in higher education, the for-profit sector, and the K-12 community. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Udemy 40

Udemy Blackboard Company Facebook 40

Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

For example, this story from the School Library Journal : “ Charter Schools , Segregation , and School Library Access.” Via The Hechinger Report : “Most immigrants outpace Americans when it comes to education – with one big exception.” Minnesota Confronts a National Quandary.”

Education 46

Education Robotics OER MOOC 46

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

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?). “Facebook Giving Virtual-Reality Kits to Every Arkansas High School,” Education Week reported in August.

Technology 62

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Edsurge

MAY 28, 2019

That job was with the Digital Tattoo Project , which is run out of the Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology at the UBC Library. And one thing that we began to look into was how does the learning management system at UBC collect information about students and how is that information then used and stored and accessed.

Data 144

Data Learning Advocacy System 144

Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

. “High school students will be allowed to carry mace in the 2016–2017 school year after the Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education agreed to remove prohibitive language and amend its policy,” the Salisbury Post reports. ” “ Smartwatch cheats force Thai students back to exam halls,” the BBC reports.

Education 52

Education Pearson Report MOOC 52

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The Horizon Report. In 2017, just a week before Christmas, the New Media Consortium abruptly announced its immediate closure “because of apparent errors and omissions by its former Controller and Chief Financial Officer.” But as the ed-tech sector is never willing to let a bad idea die, the report will live on. with Pigeons.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145