Learning with 'e's

JUNE 9, 2015

We will also hear from the OU's Professor Martin Weller (his latest book The Battle for Open is available to download online here) and journalist Audrey Watters. What can we say about EDEN that has not already been said. Unported License.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2016

Florida Virtual School will deploy D2L ‘s Brightspace platform as the district’s new learning management system (LMS). The Brightspace platform incorporates personalized learning so teachers can deliver their lessons with much greater flexibility and give each student the personal experience they need to succeed.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

As we wrapped up 2020, we thought for sure that 2021 might bring us a reprieve from pandemic learning. Virtual and hybrid learning continued into the spring, but then classrooms welcomed back students for full-time in-person learning in the fall. Well, it did–but it also didn’t.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

In his 2017 book Platform Capitalism , Nick Srnicek posits that platforms are poised to become the fundamental business model of our digital world – key to the new economy, clearly, but also key to political and social systems (and what these will become under the control of these powerful technology companies).

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

“ Does tech designed to personalize learning actually benefit students? ” “How Real-World Learning Could Help People Compete With Machines ” – The Chronicle of Higher Education on Joseph E. Aoun’s new book Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.

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Hack Education

JUNE 9, 2017

You hear a lot of these sorts of proclamations when it comes to “personalized learning,” which is (increasingly) frequently invoked in direct opposition to some imagined or invented version of learning in the present or in the past.

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Hack Education

MAY 4, 2018

” Via The Verge : “ Amazon is launching a $23 subscription book box for kids.” Leap Innovations has received $14 million from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to “introduce or expand personalized learning instructional models” in the Chicago Public Schools.

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Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2018

Amazing what reading a book will do for you. ” Edsurge offers “A Word of Caution Before Hiring a Director of Personalized Learning.” Via George Veletsianos: “ Bots, AI, & Education ” – updates 2 and 3 on his book project. This, on school shootings , absolutely gutted me.

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Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

They returned a syllabus that was all-white in composition – not just in that the primary authors of the books selected contained no people of color but the books themselves largely avoided America's colonial-settler, chattel-slavery, and racist-imperial history.” ” Will for-profit higher ed be an election issue? .”

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

One of the “hot new trends” in education technology is “learning analytics” – this idea that if you collect enough data about students that you can analyze it and in turn algorithmically direct students towards more efficient and productive behaviors, institutions towards more efficient and productive outcomes. .”

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Hack Education

JULY 13, 2018

Edsurge and Getting Smart promote venture capitalist Ryan Craig ’s new book A New U and the idea that “ faster + cheaper alternatives will replace most of higher ed.” ” The survey was conducted by learning analytics company Civitas Learning. ” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed.

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Education Khan Academy Blackboard Report 43

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The story examined a proposed practice: “Colleges require students to pay a course-materials fee, which would be used to buy e-books for all of them (whatever text the professor recommends, just as in the old model).” And digital bits have replaced the need to cut down trees to make paper and waste ink to create those books.”

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Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

The New Yorker profiles Sphero ’s learn-to-code toy for kids but says dumb things about Seymour Papert’s Logo so I’m not sure why I’m even linking to this. Via Techcrunch : “ Lilwil ’s personalized learning engine teaches teachers how to teach.” ” So that’s.

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Education Pearson Report MOOC 53

Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2017

Via Techcrunch : “ Nickelodeon gets into e-books with new reading app for kids, Nick Jr. Education Week has a Q&A with Stanford professor Larry Cuban on personalized learning and progressive education. Via teachonline.ca : “Directory of Vendors of Online Learning Products and Services.”

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