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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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Today, students frequently work in digital environments to read course materials, take tests and complete assignments. And as they revise, they can see how long learners spent looking at that passage and other details about how they moved through the digital tool, since every action leaves breadcrumbs to analyze.

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Campus Tech 2016: Recognizing—and Questioning—“Inevitable” Futures

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Stephen Downes , senior researcher at the National Research Council of Canada and co-creator of the MOOC, began with an overview of the predictive process, saying it “isn’t magic, but it’s not mechanical either.” Without the pressure to share data, vendors have no incentive to open up their products for integration, panelists said.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via Education Week : “ FCC Chair Moves to Block E-Rate Funds for Companies Deemed ‘Security Risk’ ” (State and Local) Education Politics. ” Via Edsurge : “Data is Good – But Not Enough – to Improve Education, Says Baltimore City Public Schools CEO.” Immigration and Education.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more data about online education enrollments in the research section at the bottom. Private School With Low Vaccination Rates.” ” Via The Washington Post : “ Historians : What kids should be learning in school right now.”

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” “ State educational technology directors have outlined ambitious targets for increasing school bandwidth capacity in an effort to support digital learning and bridge the technology divide that exists in schools and in students’ homes,” says Education Week. Data, Privacy, and Surveillance.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security.

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Via CNET : “ Verizon to pay $17M to resolve FCC, Justice E-Rate probes.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via The GW Hatchet : “Oversight of online learning programs lacking in some schools, report finds.” Once upon a time, Coursera updates went in the MOOC section.