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Education Technology Trends for 2017: An Interview With Martin McKay.

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Martin also serves in working groups to advise the US Department of Education on the accessibility of education materials, and Universal Design for Learning. Another example of this is smartphones. Will Learning analytics have a major impact upon Education this year? Learning analytics and big data are huge.

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Hoping to Spur 'Learning Engineering,' Carnegie Mellon Will Open-Source Its Digital-Learning Software

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Among the software slated to be released under an open-source license is the university’s pioneering adaptive-learning project, the Open Learning Initiative , as well as a learning analytics platform LearnSphere. Carnegie Mellon has a long history of commercializing its digital-learning tools, though.

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10 Steps to Create Interactive K12 Learning Modules

Kitaboo on EdTech

Ensure Mobile Compatibility With educational content being available to students 24*7, it goes without saying that your learning module must be mobile compatible. It should adapt to any screen it is being viewed on, be it a smartphone, tablet or laptop.

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Top 8 Advantages of an Interactive STEM Curriculum

Kitaboo on EdTech

According to the surveyed candidates who are now not working in STEM fields, they did not pursue a STEM career due to a lack of access to resources and opportunities. Take your smartphone, for example, every month there’s a new update. Related: 5 Ways to Use Learning Analytics in K-12 Education.

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Florida Virtual School mirgrates to Brightspace

eSchool News

The new Brightspace Daylight experience is built from the ground up to work on any device and be fully accessible so students and teachers can use smartphones, tablets or any browser-enabled device.

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How a Parody Twitter Account Helps Decode the Hulking Educause Conference (And What to Expect This Year)

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ANY PUNY HUMAN SMARTPHONE ONLY! Improving Learning and Teaching with Learning Analytics: What Do Teachers Want? remotely accessible). “We don’t even know what our computing devices are going to look like,” he said. Or as Educause Hulk put it: EDUCAUSE HULK #EDU16 QUESTION! WHAT DEVICE PUNY HUMAN BRING TO ANAHEIM!

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Mobile learning and personal metrics

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The first principle in the article above relates to access, and states: "A mobile learning environment is about access to content, peers, experts, portfolio artifacts, credible sources, and previous thinking on relevant topics.