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Trends to watch in 2015: education and technology

Bryan Alexander

What can we expect in 2016 from the intersection of technology and education? I’m building on previous posts about trends in technology and educational contexts , plus my FTTE report, naturally. Educational technology trends. Big data and data analytics : interest in this is widespread and has some hefty power behind it.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

Are any education technologies, for that matter? Computing platforms have different abstraction levels, including a computer architecture, an OS, or runtime libraries. And accordingly, platforms are the underlying trend that ties together popular narratives about technology and the economy in general. They’re amazing.

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K-12 Dealmaking: Barnes & Noble Ed. Acquires LoudCloud; Volley Labs Raises $2.3 Million

Marketplace K-12

Barnes & Noble Education Buys LoudCloud Systems: The college bookstore operator and provider of digital education services has acquired LoudCloud Systems, a digital platform and analytics provider to clients in higher education, the for-profit sector, and the K-12 community. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. For example, this story from the School Library Journal : “ Charter Schools , Segregation , and School Library Access.” Via Campus Technology : “Recipients of 2018 McGraw Prize in Education Revealed.”

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Mastering Digital Magazines: From PDFs to Publication

Kitaboo on EdTech

With so much content available online through social media and other channels, are people really reading digital magazines? You may require a dedicated media optimization tool to keep the final PDF size manageable. billion by 2028.

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Inside a Student’s Hunt for His Own Learning Data

Edsurge

EdSurge caught up with him recently to hear the story about his hunt for his own data and what he thinks colleges could do to make that technology a bit more transparent. That job was with the Digital Tattoo Project , which is run out of the Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology at the UBC Library.

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The Stories We've Been Told (in 2017) about Education Technology

Hack Education

At the end of every year since I founded Hack Education in 2010, I’ve reviewed what I think are the most important and influential trends in education technology. This is about the stories we’re told about education, about technology, and about education technology. (No