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Can Online Education Lower Costs and Improve Quality?

Edsurge

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. We could probably do multiple episodes on learning analytics, maybe there's a whole podcast about it out there somewhere.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

To believe that would require, of course, that we overlook the role that the major technology platforms – Google, Facebook, and Amazon – play in education. Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?). Education’s Proto-Platforms. Big Tech’s Bets.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” The scheme involved Ed4Mil , “an online correspondence course provider,” and a former dean of Caldwell University. “ Can We Design Online Learning Platforms That Feel More Intimate Than Massive? ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. “School shooters leave clues.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. Rafter, a course material provider that was an early advocate of and provider for this bundling of textbooks and tuition, closed its doors in 2016 , having raised more than $86 million.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Bob Thorpe, is proposing a far-reaching law in Arizona, House Bill 2120, banning virtually every college event, activity or course which discusses social justice , skin privilege, or racial equality. “ The growth of online learning : How universities must adjust to the new norm” is sponsored content on Education Dive.

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