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Online Learning's 'Greatest Hits'

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Looking back now, here are my picks for what have emerged as the most influential tools for online learning that have helped bring digital education from an experiment to a mainstream practice. Most authoring software also integrates assessment tools, testing learning outcomes. million students. All you need is your imagination.”

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The Winners and Filmstrips of An (Almost) Decade in Education Technology

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So with these guidelines in mind, I’ve chosen six areas where edtech has made an impact this decade: Learning Management Systems. Learning analytics. Adaptive learning systems. Three types of edtech joined the “filmstrip” category in this decade: Learning Management Systems , MOOC s, and digital badges.

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It’s 2020: Have Digital Learning Innovations Trends Changed?

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The primary trends identified by the team were: adaptive learning, open education resources (OER), gamification and game-based learning, MOOCs, LMS and interoperability, mobile devices, and design. Delivering these models to a differentiated population of educators and learners requires an adaptive approach.

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Quantified Learners: Moving Beyond Assessment

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Quantified Learners: Moving Beyond Assessment. New applications and technologies are now embedded into practically every aspect of the learning experience. As assessment becomes more data-driven, however, it’s important that we remember what the real goal of this data should be. By Andrew Smith Lewis.

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COVID-19 Is Accelerating the Digital Blending of Working and Learning

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In a 2018 survey of hiring leaders , we found that online pre-hire assessment was the single most likely “disruptor” of the reliance on degrees in hiring, followed by simulation-based hiring. It seems certain that more professional learning will happen outside of traditional institutions and campuses – especially if colleges fail to adapt.

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?Are We Recreating Segregated Education Online?

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Despite these promising developments, however, vast inequity still persists in the United States education system. We must ask: is designing our next-generation learning tools with such a content-driven focus on academic mastery sufficient to help people break into the middle class, when we know our economy is still so connection-driven ?

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Clickers” are definitely not new — indeed, in my research for Teaching Machines , I found examples of classroom response systems dating back to the 1950s. In 2013, on the heels of “the Year of the MOOC,” Barber released a report titled “An Avalanche is Coming,” calling for the “unbundling” of higher education.

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