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Otus - LMS, Data Management and Assessment Management, all in one easy-to-use product

Educational Technology Guy

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

It’s not even an LMS, quite frankly – something Edmodo tried to use as a selling point for a little while. But Posterous, if you’ll recall, was acquired by Twitter in 2012 and shut down one year later. Arguably, one of the best candidates is the learning management system. They’re amazing.

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Higher education technology predictions for 2014

Mark Smithers

Nothing new in the LMS space. Given the, totally unscientific, evidence of what is going through my Twitter stream at the moment, I expect that Rhizomatic Learning will get a lot of attention this year and rightly so. I expect that learning analytics will be entering Gartner’s technology trough this year.

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Higher education technology predictions for 2014

Mark Smithers

Nothing new in the LMS space. Given the, totally unscientific, evidence of what is going through my Twitter stream at the moment, I expect that Rhizomatic Learning will get a lot of attention this year and rightly so. I expect that learning analytics will be entering Gartner’s technology trough this year.

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Learning to learn data science, part 1: Beginner’s mind

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

in mathematics and 25 years' experience as a professor, including some background in Python, when I decided to get serious about learning R and data science (and learning analytics in particular) and attended the LASER Institute at NC State this year, I was starting from zero. Although I have a Ph.D.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

It was one of two social media messages – the other a Twitter photo of Tunsil smoking marijuana through a gas mark – that were posted during the NFL draft. “ Blackboard Partners with Fishtree for Personalized Learning,” says Campus Technology. ” [Insert Course Signals learning analytics joke here.].

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

It is the instructional designer and tenured professor’s signal — “to the barricades!” — and everyone snipes at the other side from the Twitter trenches for a week, until there’s an unspoken truce that lasts until the next “ban laptops” op-ed gets published. A “ban laptops” op-ed may be the greatest piece of ed-tech clickbait ever devised.

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