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HE Challenges: Fast changing digital teaching methods

Neo LMS

A range of specialist companies and private institutions is now providing excellent higher education components, as well as providing ancillary and support services such as examination and certification services, learning support, learning analytics, etc.

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Trends to watch in 2015: education and technology

Bryan Alexander

Here I’d like to identify trends from 2015 which seem likely to persist or grow over the next year. 2015 had a martyr for textbook costs, but I haven’t seen this inspire any movements towards cheaper texts. Big data and data analytics : interest in this is widespread and has some hefty power behind it.

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In the marketplace: Science achievement skyrockets, makerspaces expand, and more

eSchool News

Makerspaces are expected to reach accelerated classroom adoption in less than one year, according to the K-12 Edition of the 2016 New Media Consortium Horizon Report. In 2016, 77 percent of fifth graders in San Elizario Independent School District (ISD) successfully passed the STAAR science test, up from 57 percent in 2015.

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Reinventing The School Desk: Tip Tap Tap And The Internet of Things

Fractus Learning

Classrooms are embracing interactive whiteboards and mobile devices with enthusiasm. Our objective for this technological transformation of the school desk was to ensure that the classroom would remain physically unchanged, but changed utterly in terms of new pedagogical and interaction affordances. Tip Tap Tap Learning Analytics.

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Why Should Students and Publishers Adapt eBooks in STEM Learning

Kitaboo on EdTech

Students can be active participants in the learning process while going through the course materials as well as while engaging in classroom-based practical activities. Experience Immersive Learning with Augmented Reality. Here’s how augmented reality can transform the classroom.

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Ed-Tech and the Commercialization of School

Hack Education

2015 was a record year for ed-tech investment, with some $2.98 One firm predicted that the “ smart education and learning market ” will grow from $105.23 billion in 2015 to $446.85 Learning analytics is often framed as a “hot new trend” in education. Ed-tech is big business. billion by 2020.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?). There’s an understanding – even if it’s a disgruntled one – among those in the classroom and those making procurement decisions of what the LMS is for, what it should do, and so on. There’s an existing market there.