Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?). Instead, they’ve re-branded as job training sites. Pearson promises “personalization” through its “adaptive learning” products, for example. (It More on that in a subsequent article in this series.)

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2018

Billion Federal Block Grant Makes Ed-Tech Training Higher Priority Than Software, Devices.” ” The Business of Job Training. Apple event PR (and there’s much more in the “upgrade” section): Via The Verge : “ Apple is creating a center in Chicago where teachers can train to code.”

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Education Robotics iPad Company 45

Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

“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.

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Education Pearson Report MOOC 52

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Perhaps the district didn’t know what New York City learned when it audited its old data portal : it found that less than 3% of parents had ever logged in. There are a variety of reasons for this: language barriers, lack of Internet access, incompatible devices, lack of training. Course Signals. But the “spying” has continued.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

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JANUARY 26, 2017

The Business of Job Training and Job Placement. “Can robotics teach problem solving to students?” “Learning technology once reserved for special needs students is now in everyone’s hands. ” “Of OER and Platforms: Five Years Later” by Lumen Learning’s David Wiley.

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