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Pros and Cons of Using eLearning Software in Your Classroom

Educational Technology Guy

Although some academic institutions and educational professionals still doubt the high value of eLearning software, technology-based education is no longer a myth. Lockdown aside, why are more teachers turning to online educational software? What are the benefits and drawbacks of its everyday usage?

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

Edsurge

In an unusual move intended to shake up how college teaching is done around the world, Carnegie Mellon University today announced that it will give away dozens of the digital-learning software tools it has built over more than a decade—and make their underlying code available for anyone to see and modify. But Kenneth R.

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Against the 3A’s of EdTech: AI, Analytics, and Adaptive Technologies in Education

ProfHacker

I can see evidence around me that AI (Artificial Intelligence), Analytics and Adaptive Learning are being pushed in the education field, but I have a strong aversion to all of them, mainly on ethical grounds. A good teacher can promote these attitudes despite plagiarism-detection software, but the software itself does not do this.

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How AI Will Save Education

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

While rough " deepfake " videos have been around for several years, the proliferation of video manipulation that appear real enough to fool viewers really shifted into high gear in 2019 with the launch of multiple AI open-source software and mobile apps. (On A quick Google search resulted in no immediate hits of others writing such an essay.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed. Subscribe to their blog. They’re amazing.

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Ed-Tech Agitprop

Hack Education

But I do want to quickly note the other meanings of the phrase -- the ones that show up in the "Google Alert" I have set for the title. Supposedly computer scientists are now teaching machines -- conditioning and training algorithms and machines, and as Skinner also believed, eliciting from them optimum learning behaviors.

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Classroom Design Trends: Update Classroom Layout to Boost Engagement

ViewSonic Education

Collaborative software. Within this fluid environment, educators are striving to adapt. One important adaptation is the shakeup of classroom design. She talks about her success with next-gen classroom design in her Rockin' it in 5th Grade blog. Educators are embracing the need to adapt learning spaces.

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