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Getting Smart on Personalization and Privacy

This publication, "Getting Smart on Personalization and Privacy," explores ongoing opportunities and challenges, feature insights and shares the voices of those who have been actively working to implement similar policies and initiatives.

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More money for more innovation

This week I met with a private equity firm and talked to a new venture fund both interested in education. That makes a couple dozen of each that at least look at learning deals. Most of the VCs fall into the ‘hacking education’ category and only…

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MOOCs Shift From Curiosity to Employability

With huge investments and lots of fanfare, massive open online courses (MOOC) are the higher ed topic of the year. They’ve been around for years, but when more than 100,000 people signed up for a Stanford artificial intelligence course it was obvious that MOOCs had arrived.

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EdTech 10: Get Your Learn On

Summer is the perfect time to pursue some personal and professional learning goals, and this week’s top ten is full of opportunities for educators to do just that.

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School Choice in Sweden

BBC‘s Liz MacKean offers great report on school choice in Sweden where “There are now more than 1,100 such schools in Sweden, funded by the state, but operated independently.” And “About 10% of all students of compulsory school age now attend the new schools, and in the upper secondary level…

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Virtual Portfolio Overlay

Virtual courses are quickly becoming an important overlay to portfolio strategy (last post) as Paul Hill pointed out yesterday at Yale Edu Leaders Conference. Virtual schools offer full school and course alternatives.  In the next year I think we’ll get to the point where every student in America has…

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The Largest Myth About Educational User Experiences Today

The largest myth about educational user experiences today is that great user experience is about visual design and graphics. If we make it pretty and easy to navigate, we have created a good user experience, right? In reality, visual design is the icing on the cake. If we don’t put the right ingredients into our user experiences, visuals and graphics will do little good.

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iNACOL President & CEO Discusses Vision for Proficiency-Based Learning

David Nagel with THE Journal recently interviewed iNACOL, the International Association for K-12 Online Learning, President and CEO Susan Patrick about her vision to shift from a system based on seat time to proficiency- and competency-based learning models in her recent report, "Cracking the Code: Synchronizing Policy and Practice for Performance-based Learning."

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ReHess x3

Rick Hess comments on digital learning, value-added teacher evals, and the edujobs bill.