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Report: One of the Biggest Obstacles to Remote Learning? Finding a Quiet Place to Work

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For Ryan Baker, an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania and director of the Penn Center of Learning Analytics, there is one thing in particular he’d like school leaders to keep in mind: providing better tech support for students and families. “I I definitely didn’t count on much tech support from my school district.”

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Can Online Education Lower Costs and Improve Quality?

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Inspired by the breakout podcast Serial, four years ago two digital learning leaders at the University of Central Florida created their own podcast—focused on online learning instead of true crime. Murder mysteries and online learning. This is kind of separate from online learning. I don't know.

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?A Starter Kit for Instructional Designers

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As online course platforms proliferate, institutions of all shapes and sizes realize that they’ll need to translate content into digital forms. Designing online learning experiences is essential to training employees, mobilizing customers, serving students, building marketing channels, and sustaining business models.

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EdSurge Live: Who Controls AI in Higher Ed, And Why It Matters (Part 1)

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More instructors are experimenting with adaptive-learning systems in their classrooms. Milliron: Higher education right now is definitely in the beginning stages of any kind of use of AI. I work in a slightly different level than the work that Civitas works on, though, with the Open Learning Initiative.

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When Personalized Learning Is a Logical Fallacy

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After pointing out that many of the folks who are investigating “personalized learning”—including both MindWires and EdSurge—have received grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the article goes on to quote grantee after grantee saying variations of the same thing: “Meh. Personalized learning, adaptive learning, potato, potahto.

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Designing Higher Ed: The Search for a Process to Innovate

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But the definition of design is much broader. And they have to do it in an increasingly complex and rapidly changing environment due to globalization, the increasing complexity of modern technology, the rise of online learning, and the economic climate and corresponding demands for higher return on investment on education.

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Can Competency-Based Education Demonstrate Mastery Across a Lifetime? #DLNchat

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Our guest pointed to a five-page definition of CBE. Crisp and other #DLNchat -ters see the growth of CBE and its relevance to employers supported by the expansion of online learning. Not everyone in the #DLNchat community was as enthusiastic about the potential of adaptive learning for CBE.