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A battle at one university is a case study in why higher education is so slow to change

The Hechinger Report

As a consequence, he said, “I’ve seen my students’ ability to learn, to write, to comprehend material plummet” — including the many, Hunt pointed out, who are destined to go on to work as history teachers. Tuminez became president of UVU in 2018. A university analysis shows that this approach has sharply reduced dropout rates.

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Learning Analytics 2018 – An updated perspective

IAD Learning

Learning analytics has been a hot topic for a while in the education industry. Not by chance, learning analytics and all its related technologies (measuring learning, artificial intelligence, adaptive learning, personalized learning, etc.) Taking action is the ultimate goal of any learning analytics process.

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A Year in Review 15-16

The Thinking Stick

Let’s see, you made a transition from a PC to Mac operating system, you are learning and are continuing to learn the power of Google Apps for Education. I can’t wait to see where we are in 2018 and beyond. Soon we will be changing learning for students from 3-12 grade across a district. Cohort 1 is on training 7 of 12.

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Should we screen kids’ genes to ‘predict’ how successful they’ll be in school?

The Hechinger Report

In 2018, researchers studied data from more than a million people across countries and found they could strengthen the polygenic score to explain 11 percent of the variation in educational attainment. They’re disproportionately white and wealthy, while Black, Latinx, Indigenous and low-income students are often left out.

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