EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 19, 2018

The classroom of the future isn’t far from becoming a reality in 2018. From learning analytics tools providing students with instant feedback on their work to virtual reality facilitating field trips to faraway lands to 3D printers filling makerspaces, the classroom looks quite a bit different than it did just five years ago.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2018

A consortium of 25 universities unveiled a new platform last month that will pull in information from systems across campus to bring richer analytics to college classrooms. The capture and use of data is going to co-evolve with practical teaching and learning practices.” One is going to shape the other,” he argues.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2017

Embedded learning analytics are not like rotisserie ovens: you can’t set them and forget them. An interest in respecting student agency is an important component of the academic field of learning analytics. Here, researchers are considering how to use data to reflect on teaching and learning practices.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2018

The company’s traction has simmered considerably from a few years ago, when as many as 15,000 classrooms were licensing its version of Minecraft, modified specifically for use in schools. billion in 2014, it bought out TeacherGaming’s rights and created its own version two years later. After Microsoft acquired Minecraft for $2.5

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 27, 2015

Technologically-based tools provide opportunities for students to learn both in and out of the classroom. The use of technological innovations such as cloud computing, mobile learning, bring?your?own?device Holding vendors accountable for the teaching and learning outcomes they promote. Social learning networks, e?portfolios,

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 25, 2014

The most interesting session I attended at Bett 2014 was to hear Stephen Heppell speak in the main arena. Such applications of big data (in this context a more appropriate label would be learning analytics ) are clearly relevant for learning in a technology rich environment.

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Mistakengoal.com

JULY 21, 2014

Below, I share some quotes from early-late 20th century sources that would be at home in an article, book, or blog post written in 2014. Faculty wonder if their jobs are being increasingly outsourced to MOOCs and learning analytics funded by the Gates Foundation. The classroom remains the core of our enterprise.

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