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School Work and Surveillance

Hack Education

For a long time, arguably the best known anti-cheating technology was the plagiarism detection software TurnItIn. So they turned some of their research on pattern-matching of brainwaves to create a piece of software that would identify patterns in texts. Anti-cheating software isn't just about plagiarism, of course.

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Why Students Can’t Write — And Why Tech is Part of the Problem

Edsurge

In some cases the very technologies that were intended to improve writing, like automatic-essay grading software, have backfired by encouraging a kind of paint-by-numbers approach to writing. And he thinks that the writing students do for their Instagram accounts and social media is actually great. But Warner is not anti-tech.

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Next Week - The Library 2.0 "Emerging Technology" Mini-Conference - All Keynotes and Sessions Posted!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Participants are encouraged to use #library2019 and #libraryemergingtech on their social media posts leading up to and during the event. In Fall 2014 she led a MOOC, The Emerging Future: Technology Issues and Trends, that attracted over 1700 global participants. Please also join this Library 2.0

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‘Our Technology Is Our Ideology’: George Siemens on the Future of Digital Learning

Edsurge

He’s credited with co-teaching the first MOOC in 2008, introduced the theory of “connectivism”—the idea that knowledge is distributed across digital networks—and spearheaded research projects about the role of data and analytics in education. Blogs, wikis and social media, on the other hand, are distributed across networks.

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Storms over liberal education: notes on the 2016 AAC&U conference

Bryan Alexander

I kicked things off with a survey of major technological developments in a very top level way, then dived into specific, currently used digital tools (the LMS, ePortfolios, video, robotics, big data, social media, 3d printing, etc.). That meant open source software, open education resources, and open access in scholarly publication.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) It may be the hardware or the operating system (OS), even a web browser or other underlying software, as long as the program code is executed in it. It’s now an LMS too.

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2013 Global Education Conference Kicks Off Today - List of Sessions

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Most impressive demonstration of the possibilities of the software and of engaging ways to interpret the conference theme! " -Anonymous “This is a fantastic conference and I plan on using the recordings for my graduate student -professional teachers. Martinez H.