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Can Online Education Lower Costs and Improve Quality?

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Not everyone thinks that’s possible, of course, and even Cavanagh, vice provost for digital learning at the University of Central Florida, admits that edtech can spark plenty of new ethical challenges along the way. We could probably do multiple episodes on learning analytics, maybe there's a whole podcast about it out there somewhere.

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A 140-Year-Old School Partnered With a 10-Year-Old School. Here’s What Happened.

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On the Kelvinside campus in Glasgow’s leafy West End, students from middle and high school explored swarm robotics, created biofashion and programmed augmented reality games. They were mentored by a team of NuVu coaches to explore their creative instincts, while expanding their capacity to think and learn analytically.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow. Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?). ” Re-reading that article now makes me cringe. It’s now an LMS too.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via Inside Higher Ed : “Analysis of Georgia Tech ’s MOOC-inspired online master’s in computer science suggests that institutions can successfully deliver high-quality, low-cost degrees to students at scale.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” “ Robot abuse ”?!

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What's on the Horizon (Still, Again, Always) for Ed-Tech

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The topic names have been modified “for consistency,” the report’s authors say (although I’m a little unclear about some of these choices – how are “mobile learning,” “tablet computing,” and “bring your own device” separate technological developments? Blended Learning Designs.

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Ed-Tech in a Time of Trump

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And the word “intelligence” is now used – oh so casually – to describe so-called “thinking machines”: algorithms, robots, AI. Does the data collection and data analysis undertaken by schools work in a similar way? How does the data collection and data analysis undertaken by schools work?

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Hack Education Weekly News

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“Imagine Discovering That Your Teaching Assistant Really Is a Robot ,” says The Wall Street Journal in a story about “Jill Watson” (of course it’s a female name), an automated teaching assistant at Georgia Tech. ” [Insert Course Signals learning analytics joke here.]. From the HR Department.