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Trends to watch in 2015: education and technology

Bryan Alexander

Big data and data analytics : interest in this is widespread and has some hefty power behind it. Personalized learning is winning a growing amount of attention, but no off-the-shelf tech solutions. Libraries Many trends collide here, and really deserve a full post. Social media is something higher ed is ambivalent about.

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K-12 Dealmaking: Barnes & Noble Ed. Acquires LoudCloud; Volley Labs Raises $2.3 Million

Marketplace K-12

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.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

For example, this story from the School Library Journal : “ Charter Schools , Segregation , and School Library Access.” ” “ No, YouTube is not a library – and why it matters” by Sarah T. ” The latest report from the Pew Research Center : “ The Science People See on Social Media.”

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Mastering Digital Magazines: From PDFs to Publication

Kitaboo on EdTech

With so much content available online through social media and other channels, are people really reading digital magazines? You may require a dedicated media optimization tool to keep the final PDF size manageable. billion by 2028.

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Inside a Student’s Hunt for His Own Learning Data

Edsurge

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.

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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?). “Now Any Organization Can Create Content for LinkedIn Learning,” Edsurge reported in June.

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

Hack Education

Social Media, Campus Activism, and Free Speech. Education Data and Learning Analytics. Social Media: Adoption and Crackdown. The Digital Library. Standardized Testing. “The Employability Narrative” Credits and Credentialing. The Collapse of For-Profit Higher Education (Or Not).