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Smartphones in Education: Redirecting Distraction with Mobile Learning

ViewSonic Education

These powerful handheld devices not only enable access to the Internet and a universe of educational apps, but their fast speeds and vast processing power make them essential tools, particularly for engineering and science students. EdX , for example, brings over 2,000 classes from the world’s top universities to students’ smartphones.

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Upskilling Trend Brings Coupons, ‘Flash Sales’ and Other Marketing Gimmicks to Higher Ed

Edsurge

“Now is the time,” said a recent promotional email from Udemy, a library of online courses. There are even memes marking this trend, like one that went viral on Reddit showing a still frame from a cartoon depicting a turtle labeled “a New Udemy course” joining a group of other turtles labeled “All my unfinished courses.”

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3 SEO Strategies for Edtech Business

EdTech4Beginners

Some of the big names that pop up include Khan Academy, Udemy, Coursera, Kahoot, and Udacity, to mention a few. For example, one common technique reportedly used to get a website to the front page of Google search results is link building. For example, you can level up your keyword research using any AI-driven SEO tool.

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How does an intelligent learning platform help teachers create a truly personalized learning environment?

Neo LMS

While technology doesn’t aim to substitute teachers, it can facilitate their work and ensure that each student gets access to customized educational content and assessment methods to provide the best possible learning outcomes. . It will not only know a particular student is good at French grammar, for example.

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How to make competency-based education possible through an intelligent learning platform

Neo LMS

The example above shows just one of the capabilities ILPs have in automating competency-based learning. Unless they ask students to submit written assessments (essays and freeform quiz questions, for example), the whole evaluation process is on autopilot. Moreover, they get access to educational content at any time from anywhere.

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Effective Educational Videos in the Classroom

ViewSonic Education

From our recent whitepaper Video-Assisted Learning Insights: The Struggle for Teachers to Access Video Content , we have found that an incredible 96% of teachers surveyed are using videos in their classrooms. Personal stories and examples. Quotes and examples from peers. 3 insights on the educational video use by teachers.

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A Step-by-Step Guide On How To Create Your First Online Course

EdTech4Beginners

It should be understandable to everyone, express yourself simply, try to explain terms in your own words, and provide an example of use from your field. Use images (can be your photos, stock photos, or screenshots) to complement the texts, to illustrate the described elements and examples, to show graphs. Videos and images.

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