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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.) Let’s discuss these components one by one.

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Current Trends in Education

eSchool News

Attend workshops, webinars, and conferences to learn about emerging trends, innovative teaching methods, and best practices. Educational Conferences and Events: Attend educational conferences and events, both locally and nationally. Professional development can provide valuable insights and networking opportunities.

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Trends to watch in 2015: education and technology

Bryan Alexander

One crucial impact of mobile technologies in education is the way they tear down our old boundary walls, the ones around in-session classes, or conferences, or meetings. Big data and data analytics : interest in this is widespread and has some hefty power behind it. I expect to see numerous stories along these lines in 2016.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?). For updates on the other major LMS providers – or at least, dispatches from their annual conferences, read Mindwires’ Consulting on Instructure , Blackboard , and D2L. Subscribe to their blog.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Indeed, according to one story in The Atlantic , a school district in Colorado opted to do away with parent-teacher conferences entirely, encouraging parents instead to simply check online to see what their children were up to. He told NPR in 2015 that Knewton’s adaptive learning software was a “mind-reading robo tutor in the sky.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via Inside Higher Ed : “The Big 12 Conference’s Board of Directors on Wednesday requested ‘a full accounting of the circumstances surrounding the sexual assaults’ at Baylor University.” The adaptive learning company has raised $4.57 ” From the HR Department. Cogbooks has raised £1.25

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

.” The Linked Learning Alliance is a voluntary certification program for California’s high school career academies. ” Well someone has to keep paying for vendor spaces at ed-tech conferences, I guess. Adeptemy , an adaptive learning company, has raised $3.48 Go, School Sports Team! ” (I admit.