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Jared Stein

Farewell to the Enterprise LMS, Greetings to the Learning Platform- e-Literate - 0 views

  • The trend towards SaaS could perhaps more accurately be described as the default model now for new offerings. In the LMS market from just short two years ago, the default model was enterprise LMS.
  • many of the new offerings are not attempting to fully replace the legacy LMS, at least all at once
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    "Farewell to the Enterprise LMS, Greetings to the Learning Platform"
Jared Stein

Teachers Belong at the Center of the Digital Classroom | It's Time! - 0 views

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    Competitor Time To Know remarks that, in K12 at least, teachers need to remain the center of the classroom; technology becomes part of the ecology where teachers live and work.
Jared Stein

Free Technology Tutorials » Research Report: "Investigation on Security in LM... - 1 views

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    This can't be a comfortable time to be on Moodle...
Jared Stein

Analysis of Instructure Security Testing - e-Literate - 0 views

  • “It is our impression that CANVAS is generally a secure application and that the issues found can quickly be remediated”, and that “None of these issues are associated with major application flaws that are difficult to remediate”.
  • no other vendor has been this public with their testing results
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    "Analysis of Instructure Security Testing"
Jared Stein

The Limited Nature of Technology (part 1) « Teaching as a dynamic activity - 1 views

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    Nice summary of the tension between technology as a tool to perpetuate traditional practice vs. technology as a lever for new ways forward. New ways forward require philosophical transformation in the hearts and minds of the teacher and the learner. A shiny tool alone won't suffice.
Jared Stein

The Jig is Up | iterating toward openness - 2 views

  • When universities can’t bully students into taking gen ed courses by threatening to withhold their degrees, what will they do? General education will have to be sold to students on its merits rather than placed as roadblocks on the way to the courses they really want.
  • Educational institutions will not go away, in-fact, their worth and contribution will be absolutely necessary, as validators and reviewers of the digital portfolios that will be linked to badges they award, authenticating the integrity and worth of the badge. It is not dissimilar to “certificates of proficiency” that are awarded by certain institutions or organizations that are at a finer grain size than an entire degree.
Jared Stein

How data and analytics can improve education - O'Reilly Radar - 0 views

  • The existing data gathering in schools and universities pales in comparison to the value of data mining and learning analytics opportunities that exist in the distributed social and informational networks that we all participate in on a daily basis. It is here, I think, that most of the novel insights on learning and knowledge growth will occur. When we interact in a learning management system (LMS), we do so purposefully — to learn or to complete an assignment. Our interaction in distributed systems is more "authentic" and can yield novel insights into how we are connected, our sentiments, and our needs in relation to learning success.
  • learners should have access to the same dashboard for analytics that educators and institutions see
  • a learning management system like Moodle or Desire2Learn captures a significant amount of data, including time spent on a resource, frequency of posting, number of logins, etc
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  • Much of the current focus on analytics relates to reducing attrition or student dropouts. This is the low-hanging fruit of analytics.
  • learning analytics serve as a foundation for informed change in education, altering how schools and universities create curriculum, deliver it, assess student learning, provide learning support, and even allocate resources.
Jared Stein

Pearson Knewton Partnership, The Next Generation of Digital Education - 0 views

  • Knewton’s award-winning Adaptive Learning Platform™ uses proprietary algorithms to deliver a personalized learning path for each student, each day. Knewton’s technology identifies each student’s strengths, weaknesses and unique learning style. Taking into account both personal proficiencies and course requirements, the platform continuously tailors learning materials to each student’s exact needs, delivering the most relevant content in the most efficient and effective form.
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