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

Fractus Learning

Current assessment methods are manual, where teachers can spend a significant amount of their time transcribing results from workbooks to learning management systems. For example, in primary level teachers will prescribe printed textbooks and worksheet assessments. Tip Tap Tap Learning Analytics.

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How Universities Can Grow a Culture of Academic Innovation

Edsurge

In 2015 the University of Michigan established the Digital Innovation Greenhouse (DIG) as part of the Office Of Academic Innovation—a group charged with fostering a culture of innovation in learning in order to reimagine the 21st century public research university. Build products with—rather than for—users.

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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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Higher education technology predictions for 2014

Mark Smithers

I’m more hopeful that meaningful adoption of online learning can occur in traditional higher/tertiary education providers that are not universities. For example, colleges of higher and further education or the training and further education sector in Australia. Many MOOCs, for example, use learning material that are not actually open.

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Why Should Students and Publishers Adapt eBooks in STEM Learning

Kitaboo on EdTech

Instead of searching for the right materials on the web, students can access multitude of content that are specific to their learning needs in the library and on their smart devices. Say for example, a student needs more information about kinetic energy. Here are 5 ways to use learning analytics in education.

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Higher education technology predictions for 2014

Mark Smithers

I’m more hopeful that meaningful adoption of online learning can occur in traditional higher/tertiary education providers that are not universities. For example, colleges of higher and further education or the training and further education sector in Australia. Many MOOCs, for example, use learning material that are not actually open.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?). Think the private school startup Bridge International Academies that operates in Africa, for example, which Peg Tyre documented so devastatingly in The New York Times Magazine this summer.).