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Campus Tech 2016: Recognizing—and Questioning—“Inevitable” Futures

Edsurge

Last week at Campus Technology 2016, higher-ed technologists joined forces with administrators, instructional designers, and faculty to explore another realm many consider “wizardry”—predicting the future. We’re only at the tip of the iceberg with learning analytics. We have taken the risk out of education,” Collier declared.

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Giving Data Meaning: Students Should Have A Say In What Analytics Tell You About Them

Edsurge

When students interact with digital learning environments, they leave behind trails of data. The desire to understand and improve learning has led many educators to consider the value and utility of this information. Embedded learning analytics are not like rotisserie ovens: you can’t set them and forget them.

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ACT Bets Big on Analytics, Adaptive Learning With $7.5M Investment in Smart Sparrow

Edsurge

In recent years, the nonprofit has invested in several education technology efforts around learning analytics and adaptive learning. From his perspective, Smart Sparrow and ACT both have a mission of bringing in a new era of digital learning experiences that are intelligent, engaging and blend assessment and learning.

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Trends to watch in 2015: education and technology

Bryan Alexander

What can we expect in 2016 from the intersection of technology and education? Unless the worm turns globally, I’d expect planet MOOC to keep growing in 2016. That should extend into 2016. We still see the majority of campuses failing to formally recognize professors’ digital work.

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Top 8 Advantages of an Interactive STEM Curriculum

Kitaboo on EdTech

million recent STEM grads as of 2016; India had 2.6 Related: How to Improve Student Learning Outcomes with Digital Learning. School is a place where students are allowed to learn, experiment and make mistakes. While it is alright to learn from one’s mistakes, sometimes the mistakes are too costly to bear.

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Digital Learning’s Pioneers Are Cautiously Optimistic

Edsurge

The small amount of research to date on how adaptive learning technology impacts student outcomes is inconclusive. April 2016 study from SRI Education found that students in adaptive courses performed slightly better on assessments than those in a traditional lecture. We have to build adaptive learners not adaptive learning,” he says.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?). A couple of years ago, I was part of a year-end webinar with MindWires’ Consulting’s Phil Hill and Michael Feldstein and one or other of them – I don’t remember now – predicted that 2016 would be a big year for the LMS.